Yeah, they do DNS for you if you want them to, and they even support Dynamic DNS, which was a bonus for me. (I hear name.com also supports it) The sucky part's gonna be re-entering all that zone info for all 152 domains. Make sure you copy all your info off the old DNS servers first, so it goes faster. (I just switched to NameCheap last week, myself)
Yeah, I remember how bad it was just months ago. I put my mom on a Samsung Captivate, but after playing with the interface (which seemed somewhat vanilla-y) I ended up going with HTC. (I felt bad about it when she asked why I didn't get the same phone) I think they're all getting better (3.5 Sense feels much better than 2.x Sense, btw) now, but like I said, you can get ROMs that don't have them at all.
The biggest concern is to not get any phone with a locked bootloader unless you already know the community has a working way around it. As you don't have to worry about that with your phone, you're ahead of the game:)
Some of us do like these UIs. I happen to like Sense, and that's why I bought my Inspire 4G (aka Desire HD). It's running a ROM (RCMix3D Runny 4.0) that is Android 2.3.5 (which is later than official for my phone) and retains Sense 3.5 (which is also later than official). I could have easily picked a ROM without Sense as well, like MIUI or Cm7, etc. And yeah, there's people working to port ICS to the Desire HD line, too. Haven't decided if I want it, yet.:)
You actually read the submission and checked the facts, possibly avoiding a flame fest. This is totally unacceptable and goes against everything/. stands for.
"You cannot go against nature, for if you do go against nature, that's part of nature too!"
Timothy's one of the few editors left from the old days; don't scare him off.
No shit. My kid (who's a better than average swimmer) won't go to the State competition anymore as he's seen too many parents yelling at their kids. "How come you didn't win? You really screwed up!" - to a 7 year old.
I'm backing him 100% on that. Yup, he's qualified, he's fast, and he's good but it's just no fun to watch parents be assholes.
So where's the "I really want to do it" gene? My daughter is not as good a swimmer but she's highly coveted by her team because she really wants to be there. She'll never get above middle of the pack, but every coach wants her on their team - because she works harder than anyone else and loves it, and encourages everyone around her.
Where's the gene for that?
There is no gene for the human spirit. -- Gattaca.
Borders Books' ebooks were powered by Kobo, but they weren't a huge name to the end user, I think. Before now their main competition, which they couldn't beat, was actually the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. It'll be interesting to see if they can differentiate themselves enough with this new self-branded tablet to get people to choose them over the Kindle and Nook lines. As it is, however, Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Kobo, and Aldiko (yet another bookseller) all have reader apps on Android, as does Google itself. Since it's quite annoying to try to keep up with books stored in multiple competing flavors of EPUB and Adobe DRM, if they're not compelling, they're just going to get lost.
P.S. Don't even get me started on iBooks by Apple. That's going down the same proprietary reader path that Sony took. They probably have a huge following among people who already own their portable hardware, but they lock you into that hardware; they don't even have a reader for their own computers.
If he's casual and likes visually appealing stuff, have him try the free trial of Rift. From wallhacking (no flying in Rift, yet) I've discovered that so far they use very few invisible barriers, and in fact put cairns with loot at the tops of some mountains. So far haven't found any crazy not-supposed-to-be-seen unfinished areas like pre-Cata Old World had, but it's fun to try.:)
Says my Firefox 7 only rates a 2, and says I should try ie9, and helpfully gives me a link. But the link is to the Windows version. I'm on a Mac! Clearly it doesn't actually have the resolution to know, much less tell me, how Firefox 7 for OS X ranks.
Please upvote this -- there's been a longstanding issue with the searchable "recommended" firmware being wrong in many cases. Check out this excerpt from a thread in the Broadcom section of the forums for proof:
We are very aware of the confusion users have finding builds. The Database was intended to simplify the process but "NewMedia-NET GmbH" has done a poor job of maintaining the Database. We forum moderators have already brought it to their attention long ago and they have begun asking for our feedback before uploading new builds to the Database. For the time being there are still bad builds in the Database and it is still recommended by the forum moderators to use our recommended builds in this thread. When all the kinks are worked out of the organizational process to select builds for the Database then this thread may go away.
what other industry would tolerate having a recall on the second Tuesday of every month
Personally, I think we'd be safer if Microsoft didn't create Patch Tuesdays, and actually released patches as soon as they have fixes, instead. It seems that Patch Tuesday in practice just exists to reduce how often Microsoft is seen to release patches. There's a claim that we need a certain date in the month for all sysadmins to know to look for updates, but that's silly. Sysadmins should always be checking for vulnerabilities, and if they really can't be bothered to do it more than once a month they can set their own calendar -- but make the fixes available immediately to the rest of us.
No, but last night I had it installed when I wiped & installed a later ROM. When it got through auto-reinstalling my backed up apps from Market, Tricorder was no longer there:(
Just goes to show, ya gotta back up your software locally (In this case, the.apks); can't trust a vendor to store it for you.
Mozilla, Google & Microsoft (at least, so far) have all now removed Diginotar from their list of trusted authorities in their respective browsers.
Odd. Firefox 6.0 on my Mac still had it until I removed it manually tonight. So did Google Chrome 15.0.865.0 dev on my Mac. Haven't checked yet on my Windows box. When I went to remove it from my Cr-48, I found that ChromeOS would let me uncheck trusting the certificate, but won't actually let me remove the CA. Oh, and the best: I can't find an easy way to edit the CAs on my Android phone unless I wanna mess with adb. I can only add certs, not delete any that shipped with the ROM.
Ahh, now Firefox 6.0.1 is out, removing the cert. cool. Last night I checked for updates and it wasn't there yet.
Mozilla, Google & Microsoft (at least, so far) have all now removed Diginotar from their list of trusted authorities in their respective browsers.
Odd. Firefox 6.0 on my Mac still had it until I removed it manually tonight. So did Google Chrome 15.0.865.0 dev on my Mac. Haven't checked yet on my Windows box. When I went to remove it from my Cr-48, I found that ChromeOS would let me uncheck trusting the certificate, but won't actually let me remove the CA. Oh, and the best: I can't find an easy way to edit the CAs on my Android phone unless I wanna mess with adb. I can only add certs, not delete any that shipped with the ROM.
Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways. If they achieve it they win their bonus, if they lose they pay out. How much more effective would executives be under this system?
Some probably do have goal-based bonuses. However, I think in aggregate this could actually render executives less effective, because it renders them less flexible to look at long term issues in pursuit of short term gains.
Let's say you're CEO of a company that makes widgets. You get a bonus at the end of the year if you meet your target revenue. That's all good, except your factory is down the street from one of the Japanese reactors that's now in trouble. Do you still try to meet your goal, doing whatever you can to meet target? Or do you focus on long term issues like the health of your workers and moving your operations across the country?
Okay, in an extreme circumstance, most good people are going to say screw the bonus, this other stuff's important, but what about when the danger isn't looming as obviously? Like the guy being told that if he outsources a subassembly, he can announce 25 cents more per share in profit next quarter, when the danger is the company getting the contract and the experience may go directly to his customers in two years and start eating his market share, after he's shut down in-house production of that part and laid off the people with expertise in the area?
"Disable Advertising As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable advertising."
I don't disable it, but I don't have a problem with other people who have this option doing so. The contributions of long-term high-karma posters is much more valuable than the marginal increase in ad revenue they'd generate.
As his notes and the related XDA forum say, you need to also patch, if your ROM doesn't already include support for it. (When I switched from one ROM to another recently, it stopped recording, even though the su log showed call recorder still starting and stopping with each call. This is why.)
It was not cheap in comparison to any other media you could buy at the time, which may well have been a part of why so few people ever bought it.
I believe Zip discs were over $15 each for a long time. MD-Data would have probably sold for around the cost as the blank music ones, which was cheaper ($9-13?) As MD was smaller, had higher capacity, and was more rugged, this should have been a slam dunk.
Yours is the comment I came in to write! I did see a picture of a portable MD Data drive plugged into a laptop when the format(s) was first introduced (there was another disc format they announced that was part pre-recorded and part blank, too, which at the time would have been interesting for games), and it was definitely before Zip disks really caught on. This would have been the format to beat, and I kept waiting for a drive to finally show up for consumers.
I used to wonder why they never marketed it widely, but now I think I've guessed: because the MD music format was already out, they might have been afraid that allowing a direct attachment to a computer would enable people to rip their music and record copies on other discs. That's exactly the kind of thinking Sony has used when it's shot itself in the foot time and time again, the only difference being this was before everyone started making MP3s.
p.s. I still have my MDS-101, but I only ever bought maybe 3 pre-recorded MDs before they stopped selling them, locally. How depressing.
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Yeah, they do DNS for you if you want them to, and they even support Dynamic DNS, which was a bonus for me. (I hear name.com also supports it)
The sucky part's gonna be re-entering all that zone info for all 152 domains. Make sure you copy all your info off the old DNS servers first, so it goes faster.
(I just switched to NameCheap last week, myself)
Yeah, I remember how bad it was just months ago. I put my mom on a Samsung Captivate, but after playing with the interface (which seemed somewhat vanilla-y) I ended up going with HTC. (I felt bad about it when she asked why I didn't get the same phone) I think they're all getting better (3.5 Sense feels much better than 2.x Sense, btw) now, but like I said, you can get ROMs that don't have them at all.
The biggest concern is to not get any phone with a locked bootloader unless you already know the community has a working way around it. As you don't have to worry about that with your phone, you're ahead of the game :)
Some of us do like these UIs. I happen to like Sense, and that's why I bought my Inspire 4G (aka Desire HD). :)
It's running a ROM (RCMix3D Runny 4.0) that is Android 2.3.5 (which is later than official for my phone) and retains Sense 3.5 (which is also later than official).
I could have easily picked a ROM without Sense as well, like MIUI or Cm7, etc.
And yeah, there's people working to port ICS to the Desire HD line, too. Haven't decided if I want it, yet.
You actually read the submission and checked the facts, possibly avoiding a flame fest. This is totally unacceptable and goes against everything /. stands for.
"You cannot go against nature, for if you do
go against nature, that's part of nature too!"
Timothy's one of the few editors left from the old days; don't scare him off.
No shit. My kid (who's a better than average swimmer) won't go to the State competition anymore as he's seen too many parents yelling at their kids. "How come you didn't win? You really screwed up!" - to a 7 year old.
I'm backing him 100% on that. Yup, he's qualified, he's fast, and he's good but it's just no fun to watch parents be assholes.
So where's the "I really want to do it" gene? My daughter is not as good a swimmer but she's highly coveted by her team because she really wants to be there. She'll never get above middle of the pack, but every coach wants her on their team - because she works harder than anyone else and loves it, and encourages everyone around her.
Where's the gene for that?
There is no gene for the human spirit. -- Gattaca.
You sure it wasn't the Teamsters? They'd know all about that.
As someone with considerably more than 8TB of porn[..]
Can't you just afford to lease a girlfriend, boyfriend, or goat at this point?
The goat even has a pretty good shredder built in.
Borders Books' ebooks were powered by Kobo, but they weren't a huge name to the end user, I think. Before now their main competition, which they couldn't beat, was actually the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. It'll be interesting to see if they can differentiate themselves enough with this new self-branded tablet to get people to choose them over the Kindle and Nook lines. As it is, however, Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Kobo, and Aldiko (yet another bookseller) all have reader apps on Android, as does Google itself. Since it's quite annoying to try to keep up with books stored in multiple competing flavors of EPUB and Adobe DRM, if they're not compelling, they're just going to get lost.
P.S. Don't even get me started on iBooks by Apple. That's going down the same proprietary reader path that Sony took. They probably have a huge following among people who already own their portable hardware, but they lock you into that hardware; they don't even have a reader for their own computers.
If he's casual and likes visually appealing stuff, have him try the free trial of Rift. :)
From wallhacking (no flying in Rift, yet) I've discovered that so far they use very few invisible barriers, and in fact put cairns with loot at the tops of some mountains.
So far haven't found any crazy not-supposed-to-be-seen unfinished areas like pre-Cata Old World had, but it's fun to try.
I didn't even read that far. I applaud your commitment to research :)
Says my Firefox 7 only rates a 2, and says I should try ie9, and helpfully gives me a link.
But the link is to the Windows version. I'm on a Mac!
Clearly it doesn't actually have the resolution to know, much less tell me, how Firefox 7 for OS X ranks.
Please upvote this -- there's been a longstanding issue with the searchable "recommended" firmware being wrong in many cases.
Check out this excerpt from a thread in the Broadcom section of the forums for proof:
sticky'd thread dated May 16, 2009, with first post updated June 9th this year.
what other industry would tolerate having a recall on the second Tuesday of every month
Personally, I think we'd be safer if Microsoft didn't create Patch Tuesdays, and actually released patches as soon as they have fixes, instead. It seems that Patch Tuesday in practice just exists to reduce how often Microsoft is seen to release patches. There's a claim that we need a certain date in the month for all sysadmins to know to look for updates, but that's silly. Sysadmins should always be checking for vulnerabilities, and if they really can't be bothered to do it more than once a month they can set their own calendar -- but make the fixes available immediately to the rest of us.
"It is a vital part of our mission to build bridges between nations."
I thought CERN was all about science. What's this about building bridges?
No, but last night I had it installed when I wiped & installed a later ROM. When it got through auto-reinstalling my backed up apps from Market, Tricorder was no longer there :(
Just goes to show, ya gotta back up your software locally (In this case, the .apks); can't trust a vendor to store it for you.
Mozilla, Google & Microsoft (at least, so far) have all now removed Diginotar from their list of trusted authorities in their respective browsers.
Odd. Firefox 6.0 on my Mac still had it until I removed it manually tonight.
So did Google Chrome 15.0.865.0 dev on my Mac.
Haven't checked yet on my Windows box.
When I went to remove it from my Cr-48, I found that ChromeOS would let me uncheck trusting the certificate, but won't actually let me remove the CA.
Oh, and the best: I can't find an easy way to edit the CAs on my Android phone unless I wanna mess with adb. I can only add certs, not delete any that shipped with the ROM.
Ahh, now Firefox 6.0.1 is out, removing the cert. cool. Last night I checked for updates and it wasn't there yet.
Mozilla, Google & Microsoft (at least, so far) have all now removed Diginotar from their list of trusted authorities in their respective browsers.
Odd. Firefox 6.0 on my Mac still had it until I removed it manually tonight.
So did Google Chrome 15.0.865.0 dev on my Mac.
Haven't checked yet on my Windows box.
When I went to remove it from my Cr-48, I found that ChromeOS would let me uncheck trusting the certificate, but won't actually let me remove the CA.
Oh, and the best: I can't find an easy way to edit the CAs on my Android phone unless I wanna mess with adb. I can only add certs, not delete any that shipped with the ROM.
Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways. If they achieve it they win their bonus, if they lose they pay out. How much more effective would executives be under this system?
Some probably do have goal-based bonuses. However, I think in aggregate this could actually render executives less effective, because it renders them less flexible to look at long term issues in pursuit of short term gains.
Let's say you're CEO of a company that makes widgets. You get a bonus at the end of the year if you meet your target revenue. That's all good, except your factory is down the street from one of the Japanese reactors that's now in trouble. Do you still try to meet your goal, doing whatever you can to meet target? Or do you focus on long term issues like the health of your workers and moving your operations across the country?
Okay, in an extreme circumstance, most good people are going to say screw the bonus, this other stuff's important, but what about when the danger isn't looming as obviously? Like the guy being told that if he outsources a subassembly, he can announce 25 cents more per share in profit next quarter, when the danger is the company getting the contract and the experience may go directly to his customers in two years and start eating his market share, after he's shut down in-house production of that part and laid off the people with expertise in the area?
This is a legitimate option for me:
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I don't disable it, but I don't have a problem with other people who have this option doing so.
The contributions of long-term high-karma posters is much more valuable than the marginal increase in ad revenue they'd generate.
Use IT like a service, like power or water, to get your job done.
The restaurant chain Jason's Deli gave them to their sales team.
As his notes and the related XDA forum say, you need to also patch, if your ROM doesn't already include support for it.
(When I switched from one ROM to another recently, it stopped recording, even though the su log showed call recorder still starting and stopping with each call. This is why.)
I believe Zip discs were over $15 each for a long time. MD-Data would have probably sold for around the cost as the blank music ones, which was cheaper ($9-13?)
As MD was smaller, had higher capacity, and was more rugged, this should have been a slam dunk.
Yours is the comment I came in to write! I did see a picture of a portable MD Data drive plugged into a laptop when the format(s) was first introduced (there was another disc format they announced that was part pre-recorded and part blank, too, which at the time would have been interesting for games), and it was definitely before Zip disks really caught on. This would have been the format to beat, and I kept waiting for a drive to finally show up for consumers.
I used to wonder why they never marketed it widely, but now I think I've guessed: because the MD music format was already out, they might have been afraid that allowing a direct attachment to a computer would enable people to rip their music and record copies on other discs. That's exactly the kind of thinking Sony has used when it's shot itself in the foot time and time again, the only difference being this was before everyone started making MP3s.
p.s. I still have my MDS-101, but I only ever bought maybe 3 pre-recorded MDs before they stopped selling them, locally. How depressing.
Hmm, this makes me nostalgic for a game of "you must be new, here."
Oh, look, it's even Tuesday.
I would have thought he was on the list for decades? Was he on and off the list multiple times? How much does that cost?
Honestly? Probably $2.7 Billion US - the blood money for the Lockerbie victims.