Yeah I've basically stopped using it on my phone because of the advertising, sponsored links. All advertising is annoying, perhaps especially because I've grown up with the ad-free BBC. There's enough noise already on FB with pictures of people's food and other annoucements about the most banal parts of their lives without throwing more advertising in to the mix.
The funniest bit of the story for me was FB trying to equate itself with journalism. They're far too far up their own arses.
There was an article in the Economist a few years ago that pointed out that Americans have a shorter school year such that by the age of 18 they've had a whole year less education than most of their overseas contemporaries. They could fix their primary and secondary education and allow people to focus on their core subjects more at university and reduce this to three years.
" Some of us aren't quite so keen to live in a Germany-dominated super state. It didn't work out too well last time"
You sound like one of those twits who goes on about two world wars and a world cup. Nevermind that Germany has won the World Cup three times and been runner-up four times since then - where the fuck have we been? Do you realise how stupid you sound with this kind of claptrap?
Are you seriously claiming this now? Don't you think you should wait until we see what happens two years after Article 50 has been triggered? If the pound stays at this level, it won't even be until next year that we start to see the impact coming through.
As for a weaker pound benefit exports, this didn't help us after the 2008 crash when the trade deficit didn't close. People don't want our goods at any prices we're likely to be able to offer. We've had plenty of time to learn from Germany, who have been very successful despite their high costs, inflexible labour market and no trade deal with the likes of China. What Brexit will show us is that our problems are home grown and the EU won't be a valid scapegoat.
When I discovered about five years ago that my contactless card interfered with my Oyster card, and just asked the bank to replace it with an non-contactless one. I hate fiddling around trying to find my Oyster card and prefer to just tap my wallet as I zip through the gates on the Tube or getting on a bus.
The other thing to do to keep your card secure is to minimise your usage. I stick to cash as much as possible which reduces the chances of it being copied and makes it easier to review transactions for something dodgy. The added benefit is better control of my money (I don't seem to spend as much), and as I've never got used to contactless I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
Not checking signatures is another thing peculiar to the US. I've had to resign things in other countries on several occasions, well, before we went chip and pin only years ago. It's funny: I had s friend in Denver when I lived there I the 90s who wrote "see ID" on the signature strip of her cards - how often do you think she was asked for this? Once in the three years I wad there!
Huh? I don't get this at all. We've been chip and pin only in the UK for a decade already. Visiting the US is like a step back in time. Faffing around with printing paper and signatures, or with swipe machines that have trouble with the swipe is slower and inefficient.
Personally, I don't need to consume entertainment at high speed, the point of entertainment for me is to enjoy a stretch of time, not to consume a quantity of media.
Me too, but I've noticed starting especially 10 years ago that a lot of the more TV (especially reality shows) has reduced the amount of content without reducing the runtime. Think: repetitive long lingering shots on people's pensive faces in an amateurish attempt to create suspense. It just comes across as cheap TV, but then I don't suppose this is what you personally are thinking of when you want to sit down to watch some entertainment.
How many Facebook apps do we need? Isn't one buggy, battery draining, privacy invading app enough? If I want Facebook I just use my phone's browser now. They've tried to make it harder for you if you want to use private browsing sessions, but then that justs add to my feeling of enough is enough!
Britain was also an imperial power trying to prolong it's increasingly untenable position as the global number one. I don't see that there is problem with liberty and staying in the EU. At least the EU is more democratic than the UK, despite the FUD, hypocrisy, misinformation and outright lies from UKIPers and the like.
I'm a Briton and I'll be voting to remain in the EU. Brexit is for masochists. Even Nigel Farage admited in the ITV debate with David Cameron the other day that the UK economy will shrink if we leave the EU, and frankly I'd rather not see the governement tax take shrinking resulting in more cuts, more tax rises and more money wasted servicing the national debt (currently about equal to the defence budget).
As for this story... it just sounds like typical anti-EU BS. As if the UK would agree to something like this given that we don't even have national ID in this country, and we rejected this when the last Labour government mooted it.
Yeah bicycles are such great value. I've been riding a 1987 Trek that I bought in 1997 second hand for $125 from a guy who used to ride it up in to the mountains from Denver. It picked up some rust from all the winter road salt from almost 10 years in Toronto, and it's been carrying me 15-20km eachway in out of central London everyday for the last six years. Same wheels for 20 years, although straightened a few times, same bottom bracket, etc. Had to change the everything the chain touches once because I wore them out... I've clearly been ignoring the maintenance schedule proposed by most serious bike people! My health and bank balance are very happy with this arrangement.
Those kinds of speeds overlap with low end mopeds and motorcycles, which require compulsory basic training and a provisional driver's license, and motor insurance.
TBH I was only thinking of the scenario where you've already got compressed video, not encoding first before transmitting it over the Thunderbolt connection. Perhaps you were thinking there'd be an encode step, hence your comment about artefacts? That'd be a pretty poor encoder BTW.
Yes I was thinking this would save the switch from integrated to discrete graphics cards that my MBP does when I connect an external monitor. Good for battery life, although I wonder if a future monitor would be supplying power back to the laptop (USB-C connection). If they get rid of the discrete graphics card, could this be the first step to them making Intel QuickSync available to end-user applications such as video encoders?
It's driven me nuts for years. Things will randomly fail and I have to move folders up to a new root or shorten the name of folders along the path. The fact that some programmes haven't had a problem whilst others do has just compounded the problem.
But of course if you ship an item, there might not be any taxes involved due to the VAT complexity in the EU.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. There's always VAT! I think international business-to-business shipments don't need to include VAT if you have the recipient's VAT number, but of course it will charged when the recipient sells the goods on... There's no opt-in self-declaration system like there is the US with use tax for instance.
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Yeah I've basically stopped using it on my phone because of the advertising, sponsored links. All advertising is annoying, perhaps especially because I've grown up with the ad-free BBC. There's enough noise already on FB with pictures of people's food and other annoucements about the most banal parts of their lives without throwing more advertising in to the mix.
The funniest bit of the story for me was FB trying to equate itself with journalism. They're far too far up their own arses.
There was an article in the Economist a few years ago that pointed out that Americans have a shorter school year such that by the age of 18 they've had a whole year less education than most of their overseas contemporaries. They could fix their primary and secondary education and allow people to focus on their core subjects more at university and reduce this to three years.
You sound like one of those twits who goes on about two world wars and a world cup. Nevermind that Germany has won the World Cup three times and been runner-up four times since then - where the fuck have we been? Do you realise how stupid you sound with this kind of claptrap?
Are you seriously claiming this now? Don't you think you should wait until we see what happens two years after Article 50 has been triggered? If the pound stays at this level, it won't even be until next year that we start to see the impact coming through.
As for a weaker pound benefit exports, this didn't help us after the 2008 crash when the trade deficit didn't close. People don't want our goods at any prices we're likely to be able to offer. We've had plenty of time to learn from Germany, who have been very successful despite their high costs, inflexible labour market and no trade deal with the likes of China. What Brexit will show us is that our problems are home grown and the EU won't be a valid scapegoat.
When I discovered about five years ago that my contactless card interfered with my Oyster card, and just asked the bank to replace it with an non-contactless one. I hate fiddling around trying to find my Oyster card and prefer to just tap my wallet as I zip through the gates on the Tube or getting on a bus.
The other thing to do to keep your card secure is to minimise your usage. I stick to cash as much as possible which reduces the chances of it being copied and makes it easier to review transactions for something dodgy. The added benefit is better control of my money (I don't seem to spend as much), and as I've never got used to contactless I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
Not checking signatures is another thing peculiar to the US. I've had to resign things in other countries on several occasions, well, before we went chip and pin only years ago. It's funny: I had s friend in Denver when I lived there I the 90s who wrote "see ID" on the signature strip of her cards - how often do you think she was asked for this? Once in the three years I wad there!
Huh? I don't get this at all. We've been chip and pin only in the UK for a decade already. Visiting the US is like a step back in time. Faffing around with printing paper and signatures, or with swipe machines that have trouble with the swipe is slower and inefficient.
She's made millions and doesn't need to work. Perhaps she could go and work on being a positive parenting role model instead?
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I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Why do you say legally imposed culture reduction is cabbage brained?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Is it because of your plans that you say legally imposed culture
reduction is cabbage brained?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Maybe your life have something to do with this.
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
What makes you believe legally imposed culture reduction is cabbage
brained?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Is it because of the people you hang around with that you say legally
imposed culture reduction is cabbage brained?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Is it because of problems at school that you are going through all
this?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Are you sure that legally imposed culture reduction is cabbage
brained?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!
Is it because of any hobbies you have that you say legally imposed
culture reduction is cabbage brained?
Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED! ... time for a reboot
Need I say how easy it will be for them to check the goatse bloke?
Me too, but I've noticed starting especially 10 years ago that a lot of the more TV (especially reality shows) has reduced the amount of content without reducing the runtime. Think: repetitive long lingering shots on people's pensive faces in an amateurish attempt to create suspense. It just comes across as cheap TV, but then I don't suppose this is what you personally are thinking of when you want to sit down to watch some entertainment.
Pay me now or pay me later. Can they even get replacemnt hardware to run this now?
Australia enacted gun control in 1996 and bought back guns to reduce the number in ciculation. Their murder has been dropping ever since.
How many Facebook apps do we need? Isn't one buggy, battery draining, privacy invading app enough? If I want Facebook I just use my phone's browser now. They've tried to make it harder for you if you want to use private browsing sessions, but then that justs add to my feeling of enough is enough!
Britain was also an imperial power trying to prolong it's increasingly untenable position as the global number one. I don't see that there is problem with liberty and staying in the EU. At least the EU is more democratic than the UK, despite the FUD, hypocrisy, misinformation and outright lies from UKIPers and the like.
I'm a Briton and I'll be voting to remain in the EU. Brexit is for masochists. Even Nigel Farage admited in the ITV debate with David Cameron the other day that the UK economy will shrink if we leave the EU, and frankly I'd rather not see the governement tax take shrinking resulting in more cuts, more tax rises and more money wasted servicing the national debt (currently about equal to the defence budget).
As for this story... it just sounds like typical anti-EU BS. As if the UK would agree to something like this given that we don't even have national ID in this country, and we rejected this when the last Labour government mooted it.
The cost of that comes down to the size of then API and how easy it is to marshal it for IPC.
I bet their compiler catches most of the bad shit that only works on 32-bit builds... But they have so many warnings they can't see this.
Yeah bicycles are such great value. I've been riding a 1987 Trek that I bought in 1997 second hand for $125 from a guy who used to ride it up in to the mountains from Denver. It picked up some rust from all the winter road salt from almost 10 years in Toronto, and it's been carrying me 15-20km eachway in out of central London everyday for the last six years. Same wheels for 20 years, although straightened a few times, same bottom bracket, etc. Had to change the everything the chain touches once because I wore them out... I've clearly been ignoring the maintenance schedule proposed by most serious bike people! My health and bank balance are very happy with this arrangement.
Those kinds of speeds overlap with low end mopeds and motorcycles, which require compulsory basic training and a provisional driver's license, and motor insurance.
TBH I was only thinking of the scenario where you've already got compressed video, not encoding first before transmitting it over the Thunderbolt connection. Perhaps you were thinking there'd be an encode step, hence your comment about artefacts? That'd be a pretty poor encoder BTW.
Yes I was thinking this would save the switch from integrated to discrete graphics cards that my MBP does when I connect an external monitor. Good for battery life, although I wonder if a future monitor would be supplying power back to the laptop (USB-C connection). If they get rid of the discrete graphics card, could this be the first step to them making Intel QuickSync available to end-user applications such as video encoders?
You could also send compressed video (e.g. HEVC) to the display and decode it there, saving bunch of your Thunderbolt bandwidth.
It's driven me nuts for years. Things will randomly fail and I have to move folders up to a new root or shorten the name of folders along the path. The fact that some programmes haven't had a problem whilst others do has just compounded the problem.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. There's always VAT! I think international business-to-business shipments don't need to include VAT if you have the recipient's VAT number, but of course it will charged when the recipient sells the goods on... There's no opt-in self-declaration system like there is the US with use tax for instance.