This is the type of question you'd ask on a news for nerds site. A tech site where people would be interested in having gadgets.
Slashdot hasn't been that since back when Linux got USB support. That was the pinnacle of all technological advancement. It's now a site for dissing all mobile phones, being proud of keeping your old battery replaceable phone working, celebrating Apple supporting ancient iPhones, praising laptops that are 7+ years old, questioning why anyone would wear a watch, and wondering why wireless headphones even exist.
In what world did the submitter and more importantly the editor who approved the submission think they'd get any kind of a positive response to this question on THIS site.
Swype was revolutionary.... And then it became a standard feature of Google's own keyboard. What once was the first app to install on Android, very quickly became a completely pointless one. I'm not surprised. Gboard is a far better keyboard, especially if you have to type multiple languages.
pretty sure TV is a protected service and interfering with it will get you in trouble.
TV is not a protected service. Specific bands are, but you will find very rarely that the bands are actually blocked and rather the TV is not coping with generic other interference. e.g. Your TV may not work (part 15), but if they come with a spectrum analyser and don't see noise on the frequency they tried to tune then the CB transmitter is in the all clear.
Some devices are really sensitive to receiver desensitization.
Hogwash. Google wallet worked on every generic NFC machine long before Apple pay even came to the market. Apple pay, open? I remember it as that thing that needed negotiation between Apple and the bank to support and that was rolled out initially to a limited set of banks precisely because it DIDN'T follow standard processes. i.e. it didn't look like a card to the debit machine.
In the mean time I was using Google Wallet several years before Apple even considered coming to the market, in a country in which it was not even officially supported. Yes then Google got wind of it and started clamping down on it so I had to register my card with a fake American address (in Beverly Hills 90210 no less since it's the only post code foreigners know) to continue using it. But eventually they clamped down on that too.
For the hardware company your data is secondary to their core business. They have no real incentive to protect it. For the advertising company your data is like the recipe to Classic Coke. Something to be used to make money but something to never be shared with anyway.
Personally I trust Google a shitload more with my data than most other companies out there. They also have a long standing history of not being hacked, not sharing the data, not doing dodgy things with user information etc. etc.
Fake news and the people who look at it are a self-perpetuating echo chamber. The rise of new ways to create fake news doesn't change the impact or prevalence as those who believe in that garbage don't need some advanced fake video to cement their beliefs. As it is they aren't swayed by logic or reality so why should these videos make the situation any worse?
Just search for youtube conspiracies that that prove the planes hitting the WTC were digital fakes to see what I mean.
No, US English western is simple and we're used to it. Software has its fair share of problems with non English but western Latin based text as well.
Consider just one example: the IJ digraph in Dutch, It has 2 unicode forms, one for upper case and one for lower case. Yet spellcheckers will often be confused by this and not understand if you use them in a word. Office also has classic issues with this in that it converts them to the separate characters I and J. If you then proceed to write something in Word with auto-language detection enabled, if you start a sentence with that dygraph the first thing it will do is lower case the J for you (not recognising the dygraph) quite helpfully thinking you're writing English, and then after the end the sentence proceed to tell you you misspelled the first word since both I and J should be capital.
Then there's classical linguistic confusion around characters that have alternative forms. Ö in German being written as Oe, the strong ß in German being ss. Even the western languages are hard.
To be fair Nolan's story attempted to portray a person without any super powers in the most realistic way possible, and even Snyder confirmed this: "What's your super power again? I'm Rich!"
In much of the MCU the powers the heroes posses just don't lend themselves for going light on the CGI. It's easy to create a practical effect of a rich man's car. Much harder so to depict the lightning charged god of thunder.
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Because they are fun, enjoyable, and entertaining.
But maybe you're right. Maybe you're the only sane person around and the vast majority of the world are the crazy ones. Just because you're dead inside doesn't mean the rest of us don't genuinely enjoy these movies. Especially Thor because that was a frigging hoot.
Actually it's been 100% true for me. Any time Google has failed to load a full sized image, the Show Original button either resulted in a server timeout or a shoddy redirection page.
Sometimes the Show Original button resulted in a shoddy redirect that the "View Image" menu option didn't. So you're right it didn't work 100% of the time for me, it actually worked 110% of the time.
We discussed this last week. It doesn't just protect Google AdSense but rather blocks ads that don't meet a code of conduct which AdSense happens to abide by. This isn't a money grab, it's cleaning up the internet in the hope that users scale back ad blocking this ensuring internet ad companies don't go out of business.
The you haven't been listening. IBM's advisory specifically calls out all three CVEs. Even news articles which know what they were talking about when they said Meltdown was thought to only affect Intel and some ARM processors have pointed out it also affects all of the POWER architecture processors.
And Oracle gave a long list of SPARC architectures that were affected by Spectre along with a patch, and then gave a single note that said SPARCv9 systems are not affected by Meltdown, and then proceeded to refuse to answer any customer questions (seriously go check their forums for a very interesting number of ways one can say "no comment") when asked about earlier SPARC systems. Make of that what you will.
Refractory bricks are good up to 1600 C and can withstand that indefinitely. What kind of temperature can "fireproof" wood withstand, and for how long?
Really damn high. Wood is a combustible and doesn't weaken or melt with heat. You just need to starve it from combustion ingredients or keep it below ignition temperature and you're sweet. A standard fireproofing membrane sprayed on top of wood suffice. Hell if you really want to get funny, encase the wood in concrete. That's pretty much how any decent length of horizontal concrete supporting structure works.
Google images previews the full sized image in the window anyway. Simply right click and click view image or whatever your browser's equivalent is and you get taken to the original anyway.
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This is the type of question you'd ask on a news for nerds site. A tech site where people would be interested in having gadgets.
Slashdot hasn't been that since back when Linux got USB support. That was the pinnacle of all technological advancement. It's now a site for dissing all mobile phones, being proud of keeping your old battery replaceable phone working, celebrating Apple supporting ancient iPhones, praising laptops that are 7+ years old, questioning why anyone would wear a watch, and wondering why wireless headphones even exist.
In what world did the submitter and more importantly the editor who approved the submission think they'd get any kind of a positive response to this question on THIS site.
Swype was revolutionary. ... And then it became a standard feature of Google's own keyboard. What once was the first app to install on Android, very quickly became a completely pointless one. I'm not surprised. Gboard is a far better keyboard, especially if you have to type multiple languages.
pretty sure TV is a protected service and interfering with it will get you in trouble.
TV is not a protected service. Specific bands are, but you will find very rarely that the bands are actually blocked and rather the TV is not coping with generic other interference. e.g. Your TV may not work (part 15), but if they come with a spectrum analyser and don't see noise on the frequency they tried to tune then the CB transmitter is in the all clear.
Some devices are really sensitive to receiver desensitization.
The writing is on the wall that Android
Indeed. Windows ME was a disaster. 2001 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
17 years later, we're still seeing silly predictions.
but it required retailer support.
Hogwash. Google wallet worked on every generic NFC machine long before Apple pay even came to the market. Apple pay, open? I remember it as that thing that needed negotiation between Apple and the bank to support and that was rolled out initially to a limited set of banks precisely because it DIDN'T follow standard processes. i.e. it didn't look like a card to the debit machine.
In the mean time I was using Google Wallet several years before Apple even considered coming to the market, in a country in which it was not even officially supported. Yes then Google got wind of it and started clamping down on it so I had to register my card with a fake American address (in Beverly Hills 90210 no less since it's the only post code foreigners know) to continue using it. But eventually they clamped down on that too.
It's like Google wanted it to fail.
Yep, the advertising company.
For the hardware company your data is secondary to their core business. They have no real incentive to protect it.
For the advertising company your data is like the recipe to Classic Coke. Something to be used to make money but something to never be shared with anyway.
Personally I trust Google a shitload more with my data than most other companies out there. They also have a long standing history of not being hacked, not sharing the data, not doing dodgy things with user information etc. etc.
Fake news and the people who look at it are a self-perpetuating echo chamber. The rise of new ways to create fake news doesn't change the impact or prevalence as those who believe in that garbage don't need some advanced fake video to cement their beliefs. As it is they aren't swayed by logic or reality so why should these videos make the situation any worse?
Just search for youtube conspiracies that that prove the planes hitting the WTC were digital fakes to see what I mean.
This won't change the status quo.
No, US English western is simple and we're used to it. Software has its fair share of problems with non English but western Latin based text as well.
Consider just one example: the IJ digraph in Dutch, It has 2 unicode forms, one for upper case and one for lower case. Yet spellcheckers will often be confused by this and not understand if you use them in a word. Office also has classic issues with this in that it converts them to the separate characters I and J. If you then proceed to write something in Word with auto-language detection enabled, if you start a sentence with that dygraph the first thing it will do is lower case the J for you (not recognising the dygraph) quite helpfully thinking you're writing English, and then after the end the sentence proceed to tell you you misspelled the first word since both I and J should be capital.
Then there's classical linguistic confusion around characters that have alternative forms. Ö in German being written as Oe, the strong ß in German being ss. Even the western languages are hard.
To be fair Nolan's story attempted to portray a person without any super powers in the most realistic way possible, and even Snyder confirmed this: "What's your super power again? I'm Rich!"
In much of the MCU the powers the heroes posses just don't lend themselves for going light on the CGI. It's easy to create a practical effect of a rich man's car. Much harder so to depict the lightning charged god of thunder.
Oh dear, did someone insult something you like by giving their honest opinion of it?
No. Actually if you read the original post someone directly insulted the GP, not just something the GP likes.
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Because they are fun, enjoyable, and entertaining.
But maybe you're right. Maybe you're the only sane person around and the vast majority of the world are the crazy ones. Just because you're dead inside doesn't mean the rest of us don't genuinely enjoy these movies. Especially Thor because that was a frigging hoot.
Actually it's been 100% true for me. Any time Google has failed to load a full sized image, the Show Original button either resulted in a server timeout or a shoddy redirection page.
Sometimes the Show Original button resulted in a shoddy redirect that the "View Image" menu option didn't. So you're right it didn't work 100% of the time for me, it actually worked 110% of the time.
Or for that matter the cost of shipping it. Even in the surgical case costs have come down over the years.
Copy and paste works as expected. This affects the Share buttons only.
The absurd thing here is that you think they don't do this already.
We discussed this last week. It doesn't just protect Google AdSense but rather blocks ads that don't meet a code of conduct which AdSense happens to abide by. This isn't a money grab, it's cleaning up the internet in the hope that users scale back ad blocking this ensuring internet ad companies don't go out of business.
What sane user copies a link from an ad?
The you haven't been listening. IBM's advisory specifically calls out all three CVEs. Even news articles which know what they were talking about when they said Meltdown was thought to only affect Intel and some ARM processors have pointed out it also affects all of the POWER architecture processors.
And Oracle gave a long list of SPARC architectures that were affected by Spectre along with a patch, and then gave a single note that said SPARCv9 systems are not affected by Meltdown, and then proceeded to refuse to answer any customer questions (seriously go check their forums for a very interesting number of ways one can say "no comment") when asked about earlier SPARC systems. Make of that what you will.
Paying about 1X10E-4 or E-5 Watt-hour
Is a great way to prevent your CPU from entering sleep state. I'm sure you'll be the first to complain about the battery life on your tablet.
Clearly you don't read Slashdot either.
You don't want to get some of that stuff in your eyes. It stings worse than Lennart Poettering's jizz.
I'll take your word for it.
Why? The guy at the 7-eleven who rings up your beer purchase isn't licensed.
In other countries which have sane and consistent laws, that person would be.
Refractory bricks are good up to 1600 C and can withstand that indefinitely. What kind of temperature can "fireproof" wood withstand, and for how long?
Really damn high. Wood is a combustible and doesn't weaken or melt with heat. You just need to starve it from combustion ingredients or keep it below ignition temperature and you're sweet. A standard fireproofing membrane sprayed on top of wood suffice. Hell if you really want to get funny, encase the wood in concrete. That's pretty much how any decent length of horizontal concrete supporting structure works.
Aside from the absurdity of his claim, he could just get a Windows 7 ISO from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-g...
Google images previews the full sized image in the window anyway. Simply right click and click view image or whatever your browser's equivalent is and you get taken to the original anyway.
No need to load yet another extension.