Unfortunately, I think SIP support in Google Voice is going to be gutted in the US like how the Skype app works. I'm sure everybody in Europe will be free to make calls over SIP, but all us Americans will be stuck with Wifi only. Even if we could make calls over 3G, it's fairly difficult to find a carrier that will sell you only a data plan at a reasonable rate. For example, Sprint will sell you a 3G plan, but it's $50 a month, which is only $10 a month less than the data+voice bundle.
Successfully suing someone for libel and win is extremely difficult to do. You have to prove that the person said whatever it is they said in order to harm you or your reputation. The accused can merely say "I did it for money", or make up any reason other than "I want to ruin your life", and it's perfectly fine and legal. Even if they did want to ruin your life, how are you going to prove that?
This seems like one of those things that sounds like a cool idea but never takes off. Most people probably aren't hugely interested in seeing which cars their friends recommend. I think most people are still in the mindset that if they want someone's opinion on something they'll ask them directly. Maybe there are some interesting uses for this, but the cars example in the summary seems pretty bland.
Why would an app be worrying about how input is processed anyway? Your app shouldn't care where key strokes are coming from, the OS takes care of that. If your app is trying to figure out if you're using a hardware or software keyboard or even Swype, you're doing something very wrong. You might have a point about touchscreen capabilities, but for keyboards it doesn't matter at all.
Bill Clinton said it best (and I'm paraphrasing here) "The most shocking thing I discovered about the Presidency is that people don't do what you say."
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? If everybody had to do as he said, we'd call the position Dictator instead of President. The president has very limited power, which is a good thing.
Or symlink to/dev/null
That what I did with Chromium's.cache folder since it gets ridiculously huge in a short period of time (i.e. 1gb in 2 weeks). I'll go after the cookie jar next.
Sounds like my situation. I started here when I was 18 doing Java, then we expanded our software so now I use some C and PHP as well. I'm the only developer we have, and even with all the code I have to manage by myself I'm barely making more than I would at McDonalds. The minimum wage here in Illinois is $8.25, and I basically had to beg my boss to raise me from $9 to $9.50. I'm getting a crapload of experience and I still live with my parents while I go to community college though, so it's not all bad.
I actually have Sipdroid set up on my Nexus One. I don't have a 3g plan, but I know it works over wifi. And let me tell you, it was a major pain in the ass to set up. I set this up with no prior knowledge of how SIP works, and it took me a week or two to finally get working. I consider myself a technical user who enjoys these types of challenges, but if I could have just installed Skype off the market and had it work with no additional configuration I would have done that, and so would have the other 99% of the world that don't have the skills and dedication that I have.
I don't think they object to killing Taliban in the game, but they don't like how players can play as the virtual Taliban in multiplayer and blow up virtual Americans. I'm not saying it's a good argument or that it's even logical, but that's what they're saying.
VMWare is actually pretty friendly to open source. Granted their flagship products aren't open source, but they bought Tungsten Graphics a couple years back which was known for their work on Mesa and X.org. And VMWare still employs a bunch of X.org developers. So if they buy Suse, I don't believe they'll do anything harmful with it.
Apparently you haven't listened to George Carlin. You can't blame the people who didn't vote because they weren't the ones who picked the awful politician who is screwing everything up. The people who don't vote can blame the ones who did. And really, in most elections both mainstream candidates are awful, so voting is mostly a waste of time. The ones who don't vote have all the right to blame the ones who do for propagating such a terrible system.
If the government doesn't enforce contracts, then what is stopping one party breaching the contract? If I'm a contractor, and you pay me to fix the roof of your house, whats going to stop me from taking your money and then not fix your roof? Or on the other hand, I fix your roof but you refuse to pay me. One of us would sue the other, and get this, the government would arbitrate and decide who owes who. This isn't about making contracts into laws, and I agree that EULA's shouldn't be laws, or even enforceable contracts. But what is the point of any contract if there is nothing preventing one side screwing over the other?
I can understand his message, but unfortunately this sort of things always backfires. I'm not sure how he thinks a virus is going to convince the super patriotic Luddites who support the war that their beliefs are totally wrong.
I agree that a direct democracy wouldn't work that well because of the shear number of bills Congress pulls out of it's ass. Most of that garbage is inconsequential, but I'd like to see the big controversial issues voted on in a public referendum. California does this with it's propositions. I don't want a small group of dirty old men who have been in power longer than Castro deciding on things like gay rights or criminalization of drugs. Congress can keep voting on their "Railway workers appreciation days", while we can vote on stuff that matters.
I also believe that there should be some sort of check and balance for referendums so 51% of the population can't screw over the other 49%.
I don't know what this fascination with GPUs in phones is about. Android doesn't even have a large 3d games selection, and by the time it does the current selection of phones are going to be ancient. I'd be more concerned with CPU and IO speed as well as general responsiveness. As long as it can draw 2d images and primitive 3d animation on the screen, I'm more than happy. The people ranting and raving about graphics capabilities in phones come off as being those overclocking "hackers" who wet their pants over an increase of 1fps.
Totally right. Just yesterday I burned a bible I picked up at Walmart for $6 just because I could.
But now my actions throw in an interesting quandary. If he wants to defend his right to burn the Qur'an, he has to defend my right to burn to burn the Bible.
Disclaimer, I didn't do it to be an asshole to Christians, I was just feeling adventurous; playing with fire can be fun sometimes. And I did it on my own property, which is in a rural area.
File extensions aren't a reliable way to determine the file type.
You can change the.pdf extension on a file to.xxx, but it's still a PDF file. Any decent PDF reader would read it.
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Unfortunately, I think SIP support in Google Voice is going to be gutted in the US like how the Skype app works. I'm sure everybody in Europe will be free to make calls over SIP, but all us Americans will be stuck with Wifi only. Even if we could make calls over 3G, it's fairly difficult to find a carrier that will sell you only a data plan at a reasonable rate. For example, Sprint will sell you a 3G plan, but it's $50 a month, which is only $10 a month less than the data+voice bundle.
Successfully suing someone for libel and win is extremely difficult to do. You have to prove that the person said whatever it is they said in order to harm you or your reputation. The accused can merely say "I did it for money", or make up any reason other than "I want to ruin your life", and it's perfectly fine and legal. Even if they did want to ruin your life, how are you going to prove that?
Holy crap dude, how fast do you drive? At 60mph, you'll go 90 miles in 90 minutes. If you get 200 miles in 90 minutes, you're well over 100mph.
I've always wondered why they don't have a dislike option as well.
This seems like one of those things that sounds like a cool idea but never takes off. Most people probably aren't hugely interested in seeing which cars their friends recommend. I think most people are still in the mindset that if they want someone's opinion on something they'll ask them directly. Maybe there are some interesting uses for this, but the cars example in the summary seems pretty bland.
Why would an app be worrying about how input is processed anyway? Your app shouldn't care where key strokes are coming from, the OS takes care of that. If your app is trying to figure out if you're using a hardware or software keyboard or even Swype, you're doing something very wrong. You might have a point about touchscreen capabilities, but for keyboards it doesn't matter at all.
Bill Clinton said it best (and I'm paraphrasing here) "The most shocking thing I discovered about the Presidency is that people don't do what you say."
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? If everybody had to do as he said, we'd call the position Dictator instead of President. The president has very limited power, which is a good thing.
But then if you lose your USB key you're screwed! The only way to win is to not play the security game.
Or symlink to /dev/null
That what I did with Chromium's .cache folder since it gets ridiculously huge in a short period of time (i.e. 1gb in 2 weeks). I'll go after the cookie jar next.
Just because nobody replies to the tweet doesn't mean people aren't reading it.
Sounds like my situation. I started here when I was 18 doing Java, then we expanded our software so now I use some C and PHP as well. I'm the only developer we have, and even with all the code I have to manage by myself I'm barely making more than I would at McDonalds. The minimum wage here in Illinois is $8.25, and I basically had to beg my boss to raise me from $9 to $9.50. I'm getting a crapload of experience and I still live with my parents while I go to community college though, so it's not all bad.
I actually have Sipdroid set up on my Nexus One. I don't have a 3g plan, but I know it works over wifi. And let me tell you, it was a major pain in the ass to set up. I set this up with no prior knowledge of how SIP works, and it took me a week or two to finally get working. I consider myself a technical user who enjoys these types of challenges, but if I could have just installed Skype off the market and had it work with no additional configuration I would have done that, and so would have the other 99% of the world that don't have the skills and dedication that I have.
I don't think they object to killing Taliban in the game, but they don't like how players can play as the virtual Taliban in multiplayer and blow up virtual Americans. I'm not saying it's a good argument or that it's even logical, but that's what they're saying.
sed s/Taliban/GenericTerrorists/g
So all these politically correct people will be appeased, but nothing of substance will have changed.
You'd be surprised. Texting while driving got bad enough that my state, Illinois, had to make a law banning it.
VMWare is actually pretty friendly to open source. Granted their flagship products aren't open source, but they bought Tungsten Graphics a couple years back which was known for their work on Mesa and X.org. And VMWare still employs a bunch of X.org developers. So if they buy Suse, I don't believe they'll do anything harmful with it.
Do you mean "for"? Because 4 == four.
Apparently you haven't listened to George Carlin. You can't blame the people who didn't vote because they weren't the ones who picked the awful politician who is screwing everything up. The people who don't vote can blame the ones who did. And really, in most elections both mainstream candidates are awful, so voting is mostly a waste of time. The ones who don't vote have all the right to blame the ones who do for propagating such a terrible system.
You do realize that anyone can walk into a courthouse and watch the trials all day long if they want.
If the government doesn't enforce contracts, then what is stopping one party breaching the contract? If I'm a contractor, and you pay me to fix the roof of your house, whats going to stop me from taking your money and then not fix your roof? Or on the other hand, I fix your roof but you refuse to pay me. One of us would sue the other, and get this, the government would arbitrate and decide who owes who. This isn't about making contracts into laws, and I agree that EULA's shouldn't be laws, or even enforceable contracts. But what is the point of any contract if there is nothing preventing one side screwing over the other?
I can understand his message, but unfortunately this sort of things always backfires. I'm not sure how he thinks a virus is going to convince the super patriotic Luddites who support the war that their beliefs are totally wrong.
I agree that a direct democracy wouldn't work that well because of the shear number of bills Congress pulls out of it's ass. Most of that garbage is inconsequential, but I'd like to see the big controversial issues voted on in a public referendum. California does this with it's propositions. I don't want a small group of dirty old men who have been in power longer than Castro deciding on things like gay rights or criminalization of drugs. Congress can keep voting on their "Railway workers appreciation days", while we can vote on stuff that matters. I also believe that there should be some sort of check and balance for referendums so 51% of the population can't screw over the other 49%.
I don't know what this fascination with GPUs in phones is about. Android doesn't even have a large 3d games selection, and by the time it does the current selection of phones are going to be ancient. I'd be more concerned with CPU and IO speed as well as general responsiveness. As long as it can draw 2d images and primitive 3d animation on the screen, I'm more than happy. The people ranting and raving about graphics capabilities in phones come off as being those overclocking "hackers" who wet their pants over an increase of 1fps.
Totally right. Just yesterday I burned a bible I picked up at Walmart for $6 just because I could. But now my actions throw in an interesting quandary. If he wants to defend his right to burn the Qur'an, he has to defend my right to burn to burn the Bible. Disclaimer, I didn't do it to be an asshole to Christians, I was just feeling adventurous; playing with fire can be fun sometimes. And I did it on my own property, which is in a rural area.
File extensions aren't a reliable way to determine the file type. You can change the .pdf extension on a file to .xxx, but it's still a PDF file. Any decent PDF reader would read it.