All the mobile browsers are absolutely fucking horrible. Firefox mobile is the best, but it also sucks.
On Android, I use XServer-XSDL, an Ubuntu chroot (Debian doesn't build chromium for armhf anymore), and desktop Firefox + Grab-and-Drag, or Chromium+umatrix. This also sucks, but it sucks less than anything native. YMMV.
Suddenly an alien probe starts microwaving Earth's oceans. To save Earth, Starfleet instantly promotes Kirk to double-plus-admiral and gives him an experimental portable time travel module, which he uses to take the enterprise back to 1980s Earth.
No, it won't be 1980's Earth. It will be 2010's Earth. Doing the 1980's would cost more, and have fewer opportunities for product placement. Do you remember the blatant Nokia marketing in Star Trek XI? Kirk, as a child, driving a 'vette, blasting the Beastie Boys, and taking calls on his clearly-branded Nokia cell phone (ringtone and all). They could make a whole fucking movie out of that shit.
Star Trek used to give me hope for the future of humanity. It was a vision of the future where mankind had outgrown capitalism, racism, and petty politics, and were free to explore the universe simply because it was there. Each new planet was an opportunity to learn about ourselves, and grow even more civilized as we learned to interact with alien cultures peacefully. Spock acted as a foil to Kirk, demonstrating that if we can reconcile our desire to do good with cold, unflinching logic, we can bring truth, justice, and liberty to the whole of the galaxy.
Now it seems the message is "We will gladly shit upon all your values to make a quick buck. Spock is having a temper tantrum. Fuck you. Buy more shit."
Furthermore, when the adminstrator logs in to the student's account, FB's advertisers are actually harmed. They paid good money to show ads directed toward the school-age bully who lives in Illinois demographic. When someone other than the registered user logs in, that money is fraudulently wasted.
It's actually in FB's interest to sue and push for criminal charges. They've got an advertising business to run, and if people other than the registered user are logging into accounts, that lowers the value of their ads.
I've found Steam's broadcasting feature to be quite handy for getting a handle on the basic mechanics of games with a steep learning curve, such as Crusader Kings II. If you tell a player you're watching him for the purposes of learning the game, he will often slow down and explain his actions.
I also like to watch FTL. It's fun to be a back-seat starship captain, and many of the players like it too, as having an extra set of eyes and ears can be helpful for catching things you might overlook: "Uhh, dude... Your ship is on fire... ".
Nope. You're also wrong about the development of the language. Care to cite something?
"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more." John Bunyan (1626-1688).
Goods + 10 x Goods = 11 x Goods
This has not changed in the last 350 years.
This document, titled "Common Errors in Forming Arithmetic Comparisons" might help. See "Seven Common Errors" number 6.
Confusing ‘times as much’ with ‘times more than’: If B is three times as much as A, then B is two times more than A – not three times more than A. The essential feature is the difference is between ‘as much as’ and ‘more than.’ ‘As much as’ indicates a ratio; ‘more than’ indicates a difference. ‘More than’ means ‘added onto the base’. This essential difference is ignored by those who say that ‘times’ is dominant so that ‘three times as much’ is really the same as ‘three times more than.’
Or how about this one, from The Economist magazine's style guide:
Take care. Three times more than x means four times as much as x."
My dog is 150 cm long. Your dog is 50 cm long. The length of my dog is three times the length of your dog. My dog is 100 cm longer than your dog. My dog is (2 x 50) cm longer than your dog. My dog is two times [your dog's length] longer than your dog [is long].
"If I type this sentence two more times, how many times will I have typed it when I am finished?" Well, so far, I've typed it once.
"If I type this sentence two more times, how many times will I have typed it when I am finished?" Well I typed it one more time! I have typed it twice!
"If I type this sentence two more times, how many times will I have typed it when I am finished?" Now i have typed it two more times! I have typed it three times!
"Times" does only indicate simple multiplication. It's the comparative element: "bigger than" that is the source of the confusion. "Times bigger than" does not represent the proportion of the size of object A to object B, it represents the proportion of object A to the difference between object A and object B.
Nope. I'm not trolling. Like many people you're taking a wrong turn at the intersection of English Language and Arithmetic.
That's why it's such an awful way of representing the idea. It's confusing. You seem like a reasonably smart person, and it even confused you.
"a volume N times larger" and "N times the volume" are not the same thing. It's easy to understand when you consider the domain 0 = N =1
For "N times the volume" use N x V = VN This is simple and straightforward. "This object is twice as big as that object" My dog (Da) is twice the size of your dog (Db): Da x 2 = 2Da = Db My dog is 50% (0.5x) the size of your dog: Db x 0.5 = 0.5Db = Da
For "a volume N times larger" use N + (N x V) = (N+1) x V My dog is two times bigger than your dog: Da + Da x 2 = 3Da = Db My dog is 50% larger than your dog: Da + Da x 0.5 = 1.5Da = Db
Notice the HUGE difference in meaning between "50% the size of" and "50% larger" In this context, the difference is a whole dog.
What happens when N = 0? When N = 1 (At this point, it should be obvious how wrong you are)
Thus, for "a volume N times smaller" use V / (N + 1) Your dog is 3 times smaller than my dog: Da / ( 3 + 1) = Da/4 = Db
No, it's a crap way of saying a quarter of the volume. It's an incorrect way of saying a third of the volume.
If something is three times larger, it's 4x the original size. V + V x 0 = V (0x larger) V + V x 1 = 2V (1x larger) V + V x 2 = 3V (2x larger) V + V x 3 = 4V (3x larger)
So, to find the volume of something 3x smaller, we divide by 4.
As my employer, you should get sued for invasion of privacy, and I should be compensated for the time it may take to find a new job in a non-corrupt company.
One problem: they just rigged the election. They own the judge. Your suit will not go well.
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a server, Leon. It's serving web pages...
Leon: Server? What's that?
Holden: You know what a computer is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a computer... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and install Microsoft Windows on it, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The server lays on its back, its case baking in the hot sun, thrashing its hard drive trying to boot up, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
[Leon nods]
Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... Systemd.
Leon: Systemd?
Holden: Yeah.
Leon: Let me tell you about Systemd.
[Leon shoots Holden with a gun he had pulled out under the table]
Discovery.com tries to load lots of external resources. However, the text on the page is displayed without loading any of them (unlike some other sites, such as gawker).
The images and the stylesheet are at ddmcdn.com, if you're using RequestPolicy. This is the only domain that needs to be allowed in RequestPolicy if you want it to "display correctly", but if you're only using NoScript, the page loads fine without allowing anything. The text is reasonably well-formatted and you can view the pictures on the page.
If you want to use Privacy Ops, thats great; I just havent found an app where I would need it yet.
How about the built-in web browser? According to PDroid Monitor (using CyanogenMod with P-droid patches), it can access:
Network Location
GPS Location
Account Credentials
Accounts (Listing of accounts registered with other apps on device: Dropbox, Twitter, etc. Includes name of the service, and the user ID)
Contacts (For what?)
Call Log (Why the hell would it ever need this?)
Bookmarks and History (Duh)
Wifi Info
Network Info (
Force Online State
Well, of course the built-in browser is gross. What about Firefox? That should be less invasive, right?
Network Location
GPS Location
Account Credentials
Accounts
Record Audio
Camera
Start at Boot (That goes really well with the previous two)
Network Info
Force Online State
This is obviously wrong as there are over 800 titles available for linux, but Valve hasn't published 800 source-engine games.
Even limiting the scope to big-publisher FPS stuff you're still wrong on two fronts.
CS:GO is still missing.
Metro: Last Light (using the 4A engine) has been available since November.
There's a few Windows + Linux only titles, but they typically don't stay that way for long. It usually just means the Mac port is still in development. For example Cannons Lasers Rockets is Win+Linux only right now, but it's an "early access" game.
So the people that hate it (pretty much everyone) can quickly find their way out.
I really hate the floating "brand bar", from the user's perspective, it's completely useless. On my android tablet, it's slow as hell and just wastes screen space. Putting the classic link there would at least give me a reason to click it (once).
Thanks for the pointless stock photo of a MP holding a radar gun.
WTF does this story have to do with MP's? Why are you wasting my bandwidth and screen space?
Just because you can attach an image to an article, doesn't mean you should. The slashdot beta is even worse than I first thought: it's encouraging editors to do even more stupid shit.
Slashdot Mirror
All the mobile browsers are absolutely fucking horrible. Firefox mobile is the best, but it also sucks.
On Android, I use XServer-XSDL, an Ubuntu chroot (Debian doesn't build chromium for armhf anymore), and desktop Firefox + Grab-and-Drag, or Chromium+umatrix. This also sucks, but it sucks less than anything native. YMMV.
Suddenly an alien probe starts microwaving Earth's oceans. To save Earth, Starfleet instantly promotes Kirk to double-plus-admiral and gives him an experimental portable time travel module, which he uses to take the enterprise back to 1980s Earth.
No, it won't be 1980's Earth. It will be 2010's Earth. Doing the 1980's would cost more, and have fewer opportunities for product placement. Do you remember the blatant Nokia marketing in Star Trek XI? Kirk, as a child, driving a 'vette, blasting the Beastie Boys, and taking calls on his clearly-branded Nokia cell phone (ringtone and all). They could make a whole fucking movie out of that shit.
Star Trek used to give me hope for the future of humanity. It was a vision of the future where mankind had outgrown capitalism, racism, and petty politics, and were free to explore the universe simply because it was there. Each new planet was an opportunity to learn about ourselves, and grow even more civilized as we learned to interact with alien cultures peacefully. Spock acted as a foil to Kirk, demonstrating that if we can reconcile our desire to do good with cold, unflinching logic, we can bring truth, justice, and liberty to the whole of the galaxy.
Now it seems the message is "We will gladly shit upon all your values to make a quick buck. Spock is having a temper tantrum. Fuck you. Buy more shit."
Furthermore, when the adminstrator logs in to the student's account, FB's advertisers are actually harmed. They paid good money to show ads directed toward the school-age bully who lives in Illinois demographic. When someone other than the registered user logs in, that money is fraudulently wasted.
It's actually in FB's interest to sue and push for criminal charges. They've got an advertising business to run, and if people other than the registered user are logging into accounts, that lowers the value of their ads.
It boosts development time significantly for building apps of the same functionality
Wow! Silverlight sounds great! I'm always looking for ways to boost my development time. I charge by the hour.
I've found Steam's broadcasting feature to be quite handy for getting a handle on the basic mechanics of games with a steep learning curve, such as Crusader Kings II. If you tell a player you're watching him for the purposes of learning the game, he will often slow down and explain his actions.
I also like to watch FTL. It's fun to be a back-seat starship captain, and many of the players like it too, as having an extra set of eyes and ears can be helpful for catching things you might overlook: "Uhh, dude ... Your ship is on fire ... ".
... as I said, you won't find this in related IE languages.
Bullshit.
Here is someone explaining exactly the same thing in German.
Here is the same idea in Russian.
Nope. You're also wrong about the development of the language. Care to cite something?
"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
John Bunyan (1626-1688).
Goods + 10 x Goods = 11 x Goods
This has not changed in the last 350 years.
This document, titled "Common Errors in Forming Arithmetic Comparisons" might help. See "Seven Common Errors" number 6.
Confusing ‘times as much’ with ‘times more than’: If B is three times as much as A, then B is two times more than A – not three times more than A. The essential feature is the difference is between ‘as much as’ and ‘more than.’ ‘As much as’ indicates a ratio; ‘more than’ indicates a difference. ‘More than’ means ‘added onto the base’. This essential difference is ignored by those who say that ‘times’ is dominant so that ‘three times as much’ is really the same as ‘three times more than.’
Or how about this one, from The Economist magazine's style guide:
Take care. Three times more than x means four times as much as x."
Perhaps you might be interested in the style gude from the Institute of Physics.
"Five times as much" does not mean the same as "five times more than" (i.e. six times as much) –the first is multiplicative, the second additive.
English speakers really only started getting sloppy with this in the last 100 years or so.
If you're wrong once, and then you're wrong two more times, how many total times are you wrong?
At this point, it's pretty obvious that you are the troll.
My dog is 150 cm long. Your dog is 50 cm long.
The length of my dog is three times the length of your dog.
My dog is 100 cm longer than your dog.
My dog is (2 x 50) cm longer than your dog.
My dog is two times [your dog's length] longer than your dog [is long].
"If I type this sentence two more times, how many times will I have typed it when I am finished?"
Well, so far, I've typed it once.
"If I type this sentence two more times, how many times will I have typed it when I am finished?"
Well I typed it one more time! I have typed it twice!
"If I type this sentence two more times, how many times will I have typed it when I am finished?"
Now i have typed it two more times! I have typed it three times!
Get it?
"Times" does only indicate simple multiplication. It's the comparative element: "bigger than" that is the source of the confusion. "Times bigger than" does not represent the proportion of the size of object A to object B, it represents the proportion of object A to the difference between object A and object B.
Nope. I'm not trolling. Like many people you're taking a wrong turn at the intersection of English Language and Arithmetic.
That's why it's such an awful way of representing the idea. It's confusing. You seem like a reasonably smart person, and it even confused you.
"a volume N times larger" and "N times the volume" are not the same thing.
It's easy to understand when you consider the domain 0 = N =1
For "N times the volume" use N x V = VN
This is simple and straightforward. "This object is twice as big as that object"
My dog (Da) is twice the size of your dog (Db): Da x 2 = 2Da = Db
My dog is 50% (0.5x) the size of your dog: Db x 0.5 = 0.5Db = Da
For "a volume N times larger" use N + (N x V) = (N+1) x V
My dog is two times bigger than your dog: Da + Da x 2 = 3Da = Db
My dog is 50% larger than your dog: Da + Da x 0.5 = 1.5Da = Db
Notice the HUGE difference in meaning between "50% the size of" and "50% larger"
In this context, the difference is a whole dog.
What happens when N = 0? When N = 1
(At this point, it should be obvious how wrong you are)
Thus, for "a volume N times smaller" use V / (N + 1)
Your dog is 3 times smaller than my dog: Da / ( 3 + 1) = Da/4 = Db
Downmodded as a troll for being right. *sigh*
No, it's a crap way of saying a quarter of the volume. It's an incorrect way of saying a third of the volume.
If something is three times larger, it's 4x the original size.
V + V x 0 = V (0x larger)
V + V x 1 = 2V (1x larger)
V + V x 2 = 3V (2x larger)
V + V x 3 = 4V (3x larger)
So, to find the volume of something 3x smaller, we divide by 4.
As my employer, you should get sued for invasion of privacy, and I should be compensated for the time it may take to find a new job in a non-corrupt company.
One problem: they just rigged the election. They own the judge. Your suit will not go well.
Soulskill, when the walls fell. Bennett, his arms wide. Bennett and APK at Slashdot.
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a server, Leon. It's serving web pages ...
Leon: Server? What's that?
Holden: You know what a computer is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a computer... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and install Microsoft Windows on it, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The server lays on its back, its case baking in the hot sun, thrashing its hard drive trying to boot up, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
[Leon nods]
Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... Systemd.
Leon: Systemd?
Holden: Yeah.
Leon: Let me tell you about Systemd.
[Leon shoots Holden with a gun he had pulled out under the table]
Who the heck modded up this FUD?
Discovery.com tries to load lots of external resources.
However, the text on the page is displayed without loading any of them (unlike some other sites, such as gawker).
The images and the stylesheet are at ddmcdn.com, if you're using RequestPolicy. This is the only domain that needs to be allowed in RequestPolicy if you want it to "display correctly", but if you're only using NoScript, the page loads fine without allowing anything. The text is reasonably well-formatted and you can view the pictures on the page.
No the git comes from the fact that Linus is a git.
Precisely.
"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."
If you want to use Privacy Ops, thats great; I just havent found an app where I would need it yet.
How about the built-in web browser?
According to PDroid Monitor (using CyanogenMod with P-droid patches), it can access:
Network Location
GPS Location
Account Credentials
Accounts (Listing of accounts registered with other apps on device: Dropbox, Twitter, etc. Includes name of the service, and the user ID)
Contacts (For what?)
Call Log (Why the hell would it ever need this?)
Bookmarks and History (Duh)
Wifi Info
Network Info (
Force Online State
Well, of course the built-in browser is gross. What about Firefox? That should be less invasive, right?
Network Location
GPS Location
Account Credentials
Accounts
Record Audio
Camera
Start at Boot (That goes really well with the previous two)
Network Info
Force Online State
What could possibly go wrong?
This is obviously wrong as there are over 800 titles available for linux, but Valve hasn't published 800 source-engine games. Even limiting the scope to big-publisher FPS stuff you're still wrong on two fronts. CS:GO is still missing. Metro: Last Light (using the 4A engine) has been available since November.
There's a few Windows + Linux only titles, but they typically don't stay that way for long. It usually just means the Mac port is still in development. For example Cannons Lasers Rockets is Win+Linux only right now, but it's an "early access" game.
So the people that hate it (pretty much everyone) can quickly find their way out. I really hate the floating "brand bar", from the user's perspective, it's completely useless. On my android tablet, it's slow as hell and just wastes screen space. Putting the classic link there would at least give me a reason to click it (once).
Thanks for the pointless stock photo of a MP holding a radar gun.
WTF does this story have to do with MP's? Why are you wasting my bandwidth and screen space?
Just because you can attach an image to an article, doesn't mean you should. The slashdot beta is even worse than I first thought: it's encouraging editors to do even more stupid shit.
X11 was designed for remote display over LAN, not WAN. Which is how most of us use it. The Internet barely existed at the time.
Actually, I think most of us use it for local display. It's so bad at remote these days, it's not even very useful over LAN.
Batteries easily beat petrochemicals on charge speed. A few hours to charge a battery vs. millions of years to create fossil fuels.
It's almost as prestigious as Hardvard!
FTFM (fixed that for myself)