I used it for a while, but I kept getting "the action could not be performed" errors randomly until I repeated the SAME function 3 or 4 times. The main reasons I wanted it was so I could have my upcoming events visible from my inbox and a local backup. But the sidebar for events keeps shrinking to zero and local storage for the calendar NEVER works (and YES I enabled it!).
If anyone knows of a linux compatible calendar program that can RELIABLY backup google calendar, PLEASE drop me a hint, I'm currently stuck using an app-tab in firefox:(
It's still one of the VERY few free email services that offers IMAP (most don't even have POP3). That was the final straw for me switching to it from hotmail (which I created well over a decade ago just after it had been bought out by MS).
Eventually I want to get a private mail server on my own domain, but don't have the time to figure out a good mail server at the moment.
It's difficult now, just as creating reliable dynamic interfaces is difficult *cough*slashdot*cough*, then people wrote libraries such as jquery to deal with such things. If this fingerprint thing takes off, I guarantee someone will do the same and it'll be nothing more than a bolt-on library with a "gen_fingerprint" and "update_fingerprint" binding that will let even the greenest of script kiddies could pull it off.
Sorry, I guess you're right in my bad use of analogies.
Home computers usually cost between $300-$2000 and does a myriad of functions from 3d graphics to spreadsheets and web surfing. Your average telco switch probably costs $2000-$20,000, does nothing but transfer packets between ports according to a routing table and probably takes up almost as much room as your home computer. For a more accurate analogy, consider an SUV, which is designed for MANY terrains and packing gear for a reasonable price, as a home (or even server) computer and a train engine, which simply pulls heavy loads along a track but costs a LOT more than even a custom built SUV.
I would highly recommend ALSO testing against MySQL since the developers will only be doing a very small set of tests against their code (since that is the testing team's job). Basic rule of thumb: If there is the SLIGHTEST possibility something will be used in production, ADD IT TO THE TESTS!
I believe ie7 if the last version you can run on Windows XP. This could be a killer for people that can't afford a windows7 machine and can't use linux for what-ever reason (gaming, connecting to some MS webmail for work, etc).
Not every site will have IPv4 for-ever, but the vast majority will have one for the next 10-20 years, by then most consumers will have IPv6 and companies can stop paying for IPv4 addresses (which will probably cost a fortune by then).
You mean SIP? The idea of reverse-engineering Skype is so we can make software that works with multiple protocols. It used to be that if you had friends on ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, SIP and Jabber, you had to run 4 different programs. Now you can use pidgin, empathy, BitlBee, etc to connect to all of them seamlessly as one. If we can get Skype's protocol added to that list, we can dump yet another stupid "this app only talks on one protocol" application.
Fine, don't like jitsi? No problem. The DIFFERENCE is that Alice can run Jitsi and Bob can use Asterisk (which can interface with a normal phone), Ekiga, Empathy, LinPhone, Twinkle, SipDroid (on an Android machine), or any other of about 1000 programs to talk to Alice, without her having to give a damn what version of what software Bob is using. Contrast that with Skype where Alice can run Skype and Bob can run, well, Skype...
EXACTLY what I was thinking. I can see the patch removing the need to be online/what-ever while playing, but 50% of DRM issues are encountered at INSTALL TIME. Hopefully this means that future sales of the game will come without the DRM to start with (sort of a patch slipstream). As for already purchased copies, I hope they make some tools to make installation as easy as possible.
Actually, this is a PERFECT example of how DRM is useless. If the game company is able to make a patch to remove the DRM of a game after it's release, then ANYONE could have done it!
Some even claim notes and dictations are replacing writing, since the idea is the same.
That doesn't make much sense either, does it? RSS has NOTHING to do with a website or it's contents, it's just a format/interface for retrieving it. In fact, you could USE rss to interface to facebook messages!
Ok, WHICH hardware are you talking about? If you are comparing networking vs computational hardware then DUH they are different, that's like complaining that cars require regular maintenance while train-tracks can last decades! BTW, all of those "telco" lines are usually the SAME ones used for computers for the internet, so once again, please state WHICH technologies are even remotely the same yet have the "huge" maintenance/upgrade issues.
My mother's eee has the "wifi radion button" as Fn+F2 and the "sleep" button as Fn+F1. If you accidentally hit both, you have to use @$&#$ rfkill to get the radio to turn back on!
Ended up making it so it would sleep when running off power with the lid closed, so she just uses that to put it to sleep now.
The computer industry could learn a thing or two here.
Yeah, like how to charge $1/e-mail or $5/min for IRC chat outside your city. OH, how about service charges for checking your webmail from a competitors network. Once that is all sorted out, we can get rid of DNS servers and have everyone connect using not only numbers, but require country codes if connecting from afar. Now let's get rid of this useless "video" thing, who need's that anyway? Man, hyperlinks are a pain, lets have the options auto-scroll slowly, one a time, so we can chose one by hitting a key on our number pad. BTW, what's with this "router" thing? If you pay for one connection, you get ONE computer! Now that we know you only need one computer, lets just add the cost of that computer to your monthly bill and pretend it's a bi-annual gift. Yeah, the computer industry sure has a lot to learn from the telephone industry alright...
Stability is good, but not at the cost of progress.
I don't know what you've been smoking. It is a well established fact that there are no electrons. Simply sheep on bridges and break-dancing chickens. A wizards told me so!
Probably because anything anyone noticed would simply feed the UFO conspiracies. It would be the equivalent to testing anti-gravity pills in a haunted house:P
They didn't land it under the surface, it simply came to close to the surface where the atmosphere caused it to burn up. It was estimated to be at 57Km ABOVE the surface. Cool article though!
Most games calculate your FOV by your horizontal pixel count. Adding 120 extra verticle pixels will leave your horizontal FOV as is and simply let you see more vertical (usually UP).
I got a bluray movie for christmas and played it on my PS3. The movie was in 3:4, but the PS3 decided to send it as 16:9 to my 3:4 television. I spent TWENTY minutes hunting through the disc and PS3 menus searching for a fix before finally giving up and watching the entire thing with a black box ALL THE WAY AROUND the @#*$&(&#$ movie.
There were other stupid things such as "pause" putting a progress menu covering 1/3 (not exaggeration) of the screen that would NOT go away, I was trying to read something in the background of the scene, guess I'll never know it said:(
Long story short, first and last blu-ray movie we ever bought!
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I used it for a while, but I kept getting "the action could not be performed" errors randomly until I repeated the SAME function 3 or 4 times. The main reasons I wanted it was so I could have my upcoming events visible from my inbox and a local backup. But the sidebar for events keeps shrinking to zero and local storage for the calendar NEVER works (and YES I enabled it!).
:(
If anyone knows of a linux compatible calendar program that can RELIABLY backup google calendar, PLEASE drop me a hint, I'm currently stuck using an app-tab in firefox
It's still one of the VERY few free email services that offers IMAP (most don't even have POP3). That was the final straw for me switching to it from hotmail (which I created well over a decade ago just after it had been bought out by MS).
Eventually I want to get a private mail server on my own domain, but don't have the time to figure out a good mail server at the moment.
It's difficult now, just as creating reliable dynamic interfaces is difficult *cough*slashdot*cough*, then people wrote libraries such as jquery to deal with such things. If this fingerprint thing takes off, I guarantee someone will do the same and it'll be nothing more than a bolt-on library with a "gen_fingerprint" and "update_fingerprint" binding that will let even the greenest of script kiddies could pull it off.
Sorry, I guess you're right in my bad use of analogies.
Home computers usually cost between $300-$2000 and does a myriad of functions from 3d graphics to spreadsheets and web surfing. Your average telco switch probably costs $2000-$20,000, does nothing but transfer packets between ports according to a routing table and probably takes up almost as much room as your home computer. For a more accurate analogy, consider an SUV, which is designed for MANY terrains and packing gear for a reasonable price, as a home (or even server) computer and a train engine, which simply pulls heavy loads along a track but costs a LOT more than even a custom built SUV.
As they say, you get what you pay for.
True, for those that know how to install browsers. But I guess most of them have a family member that will fix it for them :P
I would highly recommend ALSO testing against MySQL since the developers will only be doing a very small set of tests against their code (since that is the testing team's job). Basic rule of thumb: If there is the SLIGHTEST possibility something will be used in production, ADD IT TO THE TESTS!
I believe ie7 if the last version you can run on Windows XP. This could be a killer for people that can't afford a windows7 machine and can't use linux for what-ever reason (gaming, connecting to some MS webmail for work, etc).
Not every site will have IPv4 for-ever, but the vast majority will have one for the next 10-20 years, by then most consumers will have IPv6 and companies can stop paying for IPv4 addresses (which will probably cost a fortune by then).
I still don't understand how you can compare computers to communication lines. That is like comparing the longevity of cars to roads...
Hmm, I wonder how BitlBee (which now has support for lib-purple) would handle video (or at least audio)...
You mean SIP? The idea of reverse-engineering Skype is so we can make software that works with multiple protocols. It used to be that if you had friends on ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, SIP and Jabber, you had to run 4 different programs. Now you can use pidgin, empathy, BitlBee, etc to connect to all of them seamlessly as one. If we can get Skype's protocol added to that list, we can dump yet another stupid "this app only talks on one protocol" application.
Fine, don't like jitsi? No problem. The DIFFERENCE is that Alice can run Jitsi and Bob can use Asterisk (which can interface with a normal phone), Ekiga, Empathy, LinPhone, Twinkle, SipDroid (on an Android machine), or any other of about 1000 programs to talk to Alice, without her having to give a damn what version of what software Bob is using. Contrast that with Skype where Alice can run Skype and Bob can run, well, Skype...
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EXACTLY what I was thinking. I can see the patch removing the need to be online/what-ever while playing, but 50% of DRM issues are encountered at INSTALL TIME. Hopefully this means that future sales of the game will come without the DRM to start with (sort of a patch slipstream). As for already purchased copies, I hope they make some tools to make installation as easy as possible.
Actually, this is a PERFECT example of how DRM is useless. If the game company is able to make a patch to remove the DRM of a game after it's release, then ANYONE could have done it!
Some even claim notes and dictations are replacing writing, since the idea is the same.
That doesn't make much sense either, does it? RSS has NOTHING to do with a website or it's contents, it's just a format/interface for retrieving it. In fact, you could USE rss to interface to facebook messages!
Right, the ever-feared "divide by 2" error...
Ok, WHICH hardware are you talking about? If you are comparing networking vs computational hardware then DUH they are different, that's like complaining that cars require regular maintenance while train-tracks can last decades! BTW, all of those "telco" lines are usually the SAME ones used for computers for the internet, so once again, please state WHICH technologies are even remotely the same yet have the "huge" maintenance/upgrade issues.
My mother's eee has the "wifi radion button" as Fn+F2 and the "sleep" button as Fn+F1. If you accidentally hit both, you have to use @$&#$ rfkill to get the radio to turn back on!
Ended up making it so it would sleep when running off power with the lid closed, so she just uses that to put it to sleep now.
Well, judging by your post, at least one...
The computer industry could learn a thing or two here.
Yeah, like how to charge $1/e-mail or $5/min for IRC chat outside your city. OH, how about service charges for checking your webmail from a competitors network. Once that is all sorted out, we can get rid of DNS servers and have everyone connect using not only numbers, but require country codes if connecting from afar. Now let's get rid of this useless "video" thing, who need's that anyway? Man, hyperlinks are a pain, lets have the options auto-scroll slowly, one a time, so we can chose one by hitting a key on our number pad. BTW, what's with this "router" thing? If you pay for one connection, you get ONE computer! Now that we know you only need one computer, lets just add the cost of that computer to your monthly bill and pretend it's a bi-annual gift. Yeah, the computer industry sure has a lot to learn from the telephone industry alright...
Stability is good, but not at the cost of progress.
I don't know what you've been smoking. It is a well established fact that there are no electrons. Simply sheep on bridges and break-dancing chickens. A wizards told me so!
Probably because anything anyone noticed would simply feed the UFO conspiracies. It would be the equivalent to testing anti-gravity pills in a haunted house :P
They didn't land it under the surface, it simply came to close to the surface where the atmosphere caused it to burn up. It was estimated to be at 57Km ABOVE the surface. Cool article though!
Most games calculate your FOV by your horizontal pixel count. Adding 120 extra verticle pixels will leave your horizontal FOV as is and simply let you see more vertical (usually UP).
I got a bluray movie for christmas and played it on my PS3. The movie was in 3:4, but the PS3 decided to send it as 16:9 to my 3:4 television. I spent TWENTY minutes hunting through the disc and PS3 menus searching for a fix before finally giving up and watching the entire thing with a black box ALL THE WAY AROUND the @#*$&(&#$ movie.
:(
There were other stupid things such as "pause" putting a progress menu covering 1/3 (not exaggeration) of the screen that would NOT go away, I was trying to read something in the background of the scene, guess I'll never know it said
Long story short, first and last blu-ray movie we ever bought!