Twitter's infamous 'Fail Whale' was also called into action as servers at the micro-blogging site crashed as 66,000 Tweets were made within a 60-minute period.
That's it? That's all it takes to bring Twitter to its knees? A measily 18 tweets per second? Do they manually transcribe the messages after having read that an air gap was the most effective security you could get? Or is the article plain wrong.
Gentoo managed to get this kind of setup working years ago, didn't they?
So did Debian. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as the port is poetically named has existed for a long time (see mailing list archives). This story is just about it being accepted as an official part of Debian. Who got there first? Who cares.
That's UNIX mentality, but you're applying it where it makes no sense. It's fine when you can have as many little tools as you like, but I don't want to have to carry a phone, a gps, a camera, a texting device, a pda, a handheld gaming device, etc. when I can get it all in one phone. If you want a phone that's only a phone, get one. There are plenty out there, but the vast majority of people enjoy having multiple devices in one.
all a groups copyrighted work was suddenly available for download for free
I keep seeing this mentioned, yet Youtube only holds 47 shortish Monty Python clips. Where can I see the rest of their stuff then? Do people simply not care, and just assume that everyone else is right when they say that MP put all their stuff online?
2) Rockbox's "talking menus" are nothing like the system Apple have patented
I'm sorry, but it's exactly like Rockbox' talking menus. Have you ever tried it? Knowing how it works, you couldn't tell from reading the patent application that it wasn't talking about Rockbox.
There is no 32 gig limit in fat32. I'm currently staring at a 60 gig FAT32 partition which works perfectly in both Windows and Linux. What you may be confused by is Windows' unwillingness to to format large drives as FAT32. The theoretical max size of FAT32 partitions is 8 terabytes. A few versions of Windows have problems with large partitions, but none as low as 32 gigs (Windows 95/98 are limited to 128 gigs, later versions don't have this limit).
I don't see many people buying the more expensive model, just to have Ubuntu pre-installed, except maybe to make a point to Dell (very few will do this). Let's face it, the people who want Ubuntu are pretty likely to just buy the cheaper model and install Ubuntu. This might work in some distant future where people without technical knowledge want Linux, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I'll be happy to be proven wrong by history though.
Yesterday Boston-based Gillette introduced Mach3, a men's three-bladed razor that it described as its most important product launch since the 1971 debut of Trac II, the world's first twin-blade razor.
They didn't in fact call the flash-photo from the N95 "vibrant". That was the non-flash photo they're describing there: "very vibrant, if not a little over saturated.". They also note (on the EOS 400D page) that the N95 had post-processed the image, explaining the "vibrant" colours.
In fact, as far as I can tell, they name the 400D as the winner:
Roundup: Medium light conditions This is a roundup of all the shots taken in medium light conditions. We're surprised to see the Nokia N95 took a relatively sharp photo and adjusted the white balance well too. We think the 400D picked up the highest level of detail, though.
Roundup: Low light conditions Not having auto-focus really affected the shots taken by the Nokia 6300, and the lack of a xenon flash meant the N95's shot came out with a blue tinge. In our opinion, the 400D took the best-lit and most focused shot overall.
What happened from there to the story summary is anyone's guess.
It's fine that you're fine with making pretty major decisions like switching banks based on quite inconsequential matters such as browser compatibility, but a lot of people value browsers pretty low on their priority list.
Besides, IE-only sites do not alienate 20% of the population. First of all, I doubt 20% is a correct number anyway, but that's not my point. It alienates the small percentage (I'd guess it's 1.0%) of the population that doesn't simply go "oh, I must use IE for this site", and switches to IE.
And no, last I heard Firefox didn't support IE tech such as for example ActiveX, which I believe a bunch of online banking sites use. Mine does anyway.
In many (most? all?) European countries, phones aren't tied to a specific carrier, except if you buy it through the carrier (with a rebate), and then it's typically with a limited (6-12 month) lock-in (of either contract alone, or SIM-lock and an unbreakable contract) only (mandated by law), after which the carrier has to unlock the phone (something which can usually be done without the help of the carrier anyway (legally!)).
This headline (and the one at PC World) is quite misleading. Norway has not outlawed ITMS. It has simply been found that ITMS is not following the law in Norway. This means that ITMS has always been illegal. You can blame Apple for not checking the law in the market they were entering (or checking, but deciding that the law doesn't apply to them).
Consumer protection laws can sometimes be a big pill for corporations to swallow, but if Norway is anything like Denmark, which is quite likely, they usually end up having to follow the rules, rather than getting the rules changed to suit them.
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Firefox in Ubuntu represents a somewhat more modest set of divergences from original Mozilla source code.
Complete and utter lies. Why a Mozilla employee feels the need to spread FUD and lie like this, I can only speculate about, but it really isn't pretty.
An old QIC-80 tape case. It fits a credit card perfectly, protects them well and can hold other stuff also. Only downside is that it doesn't fit your back pocket well, but you can't have it all I suppose.
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It's under CC-BY-SA, which does. So yeah.
Not true. MicroNAS gave a PCM codec for their chip.
What do you mean, Xfree86 is totally still relevant!
Except the button placing was independent of themes last I checked. Maybe they fixed that?
Because any XML structure will be beyond terrible for efficiency. You want to know how to get to point B today, right?
That's it? That's all it takes to bring Twitter to its knees? A measily 18 tweets per second? Do they manually transcribe the messages after having read that an air gap was the most effective security you could get? Or is the article plain wrong.
Seriously confused here.
So did Debian. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as the port is poetically named has existed for a long time (see mailing list archives). This story is just about it being accepted as an official part of Debian. Who got there first? Who cares.
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You're welcome.
That's UNIX mentality, but you're applying it where it makes no sense. It's fine when you can have as many little tools as you like, but I don't want to have to carry a phone, a gps, a camera, a texting device, a pda, a handheld gaming device, etc. when I can get it all in one phone. If you want a phone that's only a phone, get one. There are plenty out there, but the vast majority of people enjoy having multiple devices in one.
I keep seeing this mentioned, yet Youtube only holds 47 shortish Monty Python clips. Where can I see the rest of their stuff then? Do people simply not care, and just assume that everyone else is right when they say that MP put all their stuff online?
I'm sorry, but it's exactly like Rockbox' talking menus. Have you ever tried it? Knowing how it works, you couldn't tell from reading the patent application that it wasn't talking about Rockbox.
Well that, and 15,000 pages of language documentation (grammar, literacy, maps) of all the languages included on the disc.
But apparently all Slashdot sees is the part about the stupid bible huk-huk.
Being dead can quickly ruin your life!
In Denmark, the price seems to be 5899 DKK (1160 USD).
There is no 32 gig limit in fat32. I'm currently staring at a 60 gig FAT32 partition which works perfectly in both Windows and Linux. What you may be confused by is Windows' unwillingness to to format large drives as FAT32. The theoretical max size of FAT32 partitions is 8 terabytes. A few versions of Windows have problems with large partitions, but none as low as 32 gigs (Windows 95/98 are limited to 128 gigs, later versions don't have this limit).
I don't see many people buying the more expensive model, just to have Ubuntu pre-installed, except maybe to make a point to Dell (very few will do this). Let's face it, the people who want Ubuntu are pretty likely to just buy the cheaper model and install Ubuntu. This might work in some distant future where people without technical knowledge want Linux, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I'll be happy to be proven wrong by history though.
Saturday Night Live, October 1975: Boston Globe April 1998:
Single page version of the story.
In fact, as far as I can tell, they name the 400D as the winner:What happened from there to the story summary is anyone's guess.
It's fine that you're fine with making pretty major decisions like switching banks based on quite inconsequential matters such as browser compatibility, but a lot of people value browsers pretty low on their priority list.
Besides, IE-only sites do not alienate 20% of the population. First of all, I doubt 20% is a correct number anyway, but that's not my point. It alienates the small percentage (I'd guess it's 1.0%) of the population that doesn't simply go "oh, I must use IE for this site", and switches to IE.
And no, last I heard Firefox didn't support IE tech such as for example ActiveX, which I believe a bunch of online banking sites use. Mine does anyway.
What, no link to the very nice changelog page?
Yes, I know it's in TFA, but come on, the story is about a release, so why not link to the changelog as well?
In many (most? all?) European countries, phones aren't tied to a specific carrier, except if you buy it through the carrier (with a rebate), and then it's typically with a limited (6-12 month) lock-in (of either contract alone, or SIM-lock and an unbreakable contract) only (mandated by law), after which the carrier has to unlock the phone (something which can usually be done without the help of the carrier anyway (legally!)).
I need to cut down on the parentheses.
This headline (and the one at PC World) is quite misleading. Norway has not outlawed ITMS. It has simply been found that ITMS is not following the law in Norway. This means that ITMS has always been illegal. You can blame Apple for not checking the law in the market they were entering (or checking, but deciding that the law doesn't apply to them).
Consumer protection laws can sometimes be a big pill for corporations to swallow, but if Norway is anything like Denmark, which is quite likely, they usually end up having to follow the rules, rather than getting the rules changed to suit them.
My favourite:
An old QIC-80 tape case. It fits a credit card perfectly, protects them well and can hold other stuff also. Only downside is that it doesn't fit your back pocket well, but you can't have it all I suppose.