Indeed, who cares, the fact that there's going to be a version 4 is as clear as that number 4 comes after number 3. Of course they're going to build in new features into the device and OS, do the idiots who go into frenzy when they hear about "iPhone 4" really think Apple said "we have enough money, we don't need to make any new products."?
I don't think it works that way... no way Google would hammer a site by forwarding queries that its users have entered.. for one thing target.com would go up in smokes a few seconds after such a mode is activated.
Maybe target's got a database of what its customers have queried in its own search pages, and created a page somewhere with "failed queries: [1] [2] [3]", and it let Google visit [1], [2], and [3], entering those pages into its Borg-mainframe..
If they do go ahead with it, the serious backlash will surely bring down the Berlusconi regime. Or is this just wishful thinking? His media power has really brainwashed the majority of citizens there..
If I were a president who inherited 2 messy wars that I didn't start, with the population of my country screaming "we have to get out of there!" because my country is burning its citizen's money as fast as it can shovel into the furnace, I would ask myself what would happen if I do pull out my troops.
Will there be civil wars and more slaughter? Will Taliban and Al-Qaeda return to power in Afghanistan, be emboldened in Pakistan and will that increase the risk that they seize power there too? Remember, Pakistan has nukes. Now the "dirty bomb scenario" becomes a nudge more realistic.
I would not be able to sleep with the decision to leave those people to die.
It's about cleaning up the mess your country started. Cleaning up a mess, which if you walk away from, will cause a lot of people to suffer, and a lot of people to die. You can walk away and no harm will be done to you, a tarnished reputation maybe but you still have money and Hollywood to buy other countries' love. Sure some people will say, "it's now their own responsibility to clean up their mess.", but I still can't buy that line... come on, who really fucked it all up? Do you really believe Rumsfeld and Co. did their best to save that place, and it's the Iraqis' own incompetence which is at fault? This is Rumsfeld that can't even protect his own men!
It was either Salam Pax or Raed Jarrar, the 2 (once-)famous Iraqi bloggers, who wrote, and I reinterpret, the US is going to pull out of Iraq one day, and after a while the public will forget that little adventure of theirs -- "hey we fixed that problem that was burning our money and killing our men (and women), so we can sleep soundly now!" -- but for people in Iraq the chaos will not be forgotten, because it would still be ongoing.
Haha, I just re-read my post and realized I phrased the sentence you quoted poorly, sorry my english, not so good.;-P
What I meant was, since the US is turning into a poor-ass nation, there won't be any more problems with migrants wanting to move there. I read somewhere that the rate of migration (for legal and illegal migration) to the US is actually slowing, precisely because of the country's declining economy.
So, congrats, the mostly white Wall Street types and mostly white Bush administration solved the problem of migrants attracted to your rich country, by making it no longer a rich country! So Bush actually reduced the number of illegal immigration! Gooo Bush!
I DEFY you to demonstrate why I, who benefit from exclusion, should want the US to be filled with poor people from elsewhere.
I actually don't give a shit about a racist that is you, I just want to laugh at your racist face for ending up in a nation which is rapidly becoming a 3rd world one, in large part due to the man you probably voted to be your president, Senor George W. Bush. "Yeah, let's burn our money in 2 wars without thinking of the consequences, our strategy and how we can get out of there being better off." Heckuvajob, Bushie!
And who do you blame? The migrants of course. Probably just the non-European migrants though.
I'm sure the native Americans felt what you felt when they saw your white-ass ancestors migrating to their lands a few hundred years ago...
Well good then that the "European" bankers in Wall Street bankrupted the nation. Well that and the Bush nightmare team. No longer a wealthy nation, no longer a problem to import migrants, right?
Or was it those ethnic sub-prime borrowers who did it?
I'd venture to say TrueCrypt containers, when that corruption occurs at the place where they store the encrypted symmetrical key. Depending on the size of said container it could be the whole harddisk.:)
Actually the dialogs-way is the way BlackBerry does it, usually with an option to "Don't show this again", i.e. "always say yes" or "always say no". It does this for many features like contacts reading, access to the messages (apps can hook and get a notification each time a new message arrives), and even telephony (yes the API actually lets you send DTMF tones). There's an extra layer, apps accessing protected APIs must be digitally signed, so they have your identity (just like Apple does). And you can change the security answers under Settings.
BTW, if the original "anti-virus expert" really put unlock and jailbreak as the same thing, he needs to learn more about iPhones.
Jailbreak is breaking out of the chroot jail. It gives you root access so you can do wonderful things like install an SSH-daemon (which, unfortunately uses a standard password which the worms out there are exploiting now), as well as install apps that you want instead of only those that's passed Apple's draconian approval service.
Unlocking is SIM-unlocking, its purpose is so that an unauthorized SIM card (in the US that means non-AT&T) works on the iPhone. If you're using an AT&T card, you don't need to unlock, but you can still jailbreak. You need to run a software not authorized by Apple to do the unlock, so to unlock you *need* to jailbreak.
As for F-Secure, eh, fuck 'em. Their threat of Symbian viruses is also snake oil, it requires the most idiotic of idiots to see "Hmm someone wants to send me something over BlueTooth. OK I'll accept. Transfer finished. Let's open it. Oh it wants to install an app, should I install or should I deny?" and F-Secure sells you unproven protection if you say "install". Goddamnit, if you are so goddamned dumb, you deserve to get swindled by this company.
NetViewer is free for personal use, and the connection survives the latency of a Europe to South East Asia connection (which VNC failed to manage for me).
Of course it's very possible that there are people outside of Mainland China writing about Tiannamen, using simplified Chinese. A Google search (not a Bing one!) should confirm that.
Not really, MS Word I think has "Close All", but it doesn't exit the app. How do you justify that? Exit is an application-specific function, not a file-specific function, and as the commenter before you correctly says, Apple at least is a bit cleverer in that it has a "Safari" menu option.
Congrats on being the only interesting post so far. Everybody else is just complaining about the bloat in sites nowadays, which is valid, but I guess unavoidable. I just realize some sites might have 200+ inline elements, and the combined HTTP headers (plus TCP, etc overhead) on that isn't trivial, so this technology will surely help. Oh well, that's IT isn't it, Intel builds faster CPUs, and Microsoft builds bloatier software. I installed "Windows Live Mail" and "Windows Live Messenger" for a friend yesterday, and these 2 pieces of software (mail, and chat) takes up 100 MB. 100 MB!
Also, where's the logic of application menus, why is "Exit" put under "File", I thought File is for file-specific functions like open, save and print.
And then some clever morons thought "What do users do with options? They change them, they edit them! That's right, we'll put Preferences under Edit [see Firefox in Debian]".
But the user gets presented with Paypal's site and they say, "Confirm you want to pay nigerianprince@yahoo.com $25,000", so Paypal won't lie to you about the price.
But then, if it's actually paypa1.com, clueless users won't realize what's going on after all.
Ugh, why IE.. you can use Firefox with multiple profiles (Google it, or should I say "Bing it"), or do what I do, use Chrome, and jump into porn (aka private) mode if I want to login to another account.
Man, but how many of them are willing to pay? Well, enough I guess. As for the rest, someone could infiltrate the tea-bagging community and make them go to Fox's HQ and protest Rupert's decision. Imagine that, the tea-baggers turning against the entity that created them.
or just make a non-pay www.f0xnews.com (notice the zero), and slowly subvert their minds from right-wing propaganda...
In-window browser based video will never be hardware accelerated on desktops.
O RLY? AFAIK VLC and Windows Media Player are HW-accelerated, I've made a GreaseMonkey script that replaces the YouTube player with the VLC plugin so that it plays on my 1 GHz PC (it's ridiculous that a 1 GHz hardware couldn't play 320x200 video smoothly, it's a testament to how ugly the software is), and the smoothness makes me believe it's HW-accelerated.
I wonder how hard it'll be to pull a massive prank like that. Considering the media fell for balloon boy, it should be easy.
Just get a fake ambulance crew, fake crowd, fake paparazzi and some people with Twitpic accounts. Bring out an actor on a stretcher out of a hotel into an ambulance, get crowd to spread the word to real people that it's Mr. Jackass, let the "twitterers" take some useless pics (oh look an ambulance!), and let the story roll!
Also, someone should pretend to be his publicist and start calling up the media.. and tell them there's a fake representation calling to say he's still alive.:)
> Looking forward to them exporting their values and ideals to the rest of the world too?
As opposed to the US values and ideals? "We don't torture*","Justice and fair trial for all**", and what else..
* except that they fucking do!!! ** 7 years in a 4x4x4ft cage with no proof of guilt, or one based on a confession beaten out of you, or one by a military tribunal where your lawyer is at best not allowed to talk to you in confidence, and at worst is working against you?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27friedman.html -- basically, while in the US obstructionists are still yelling "climate change is a myth!", China is going green because it's realized it has poisoned its citizen enough. Look forward to them exporting their tech to the rest of the world...
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Indeed, who cares, the fact that there's going to be a version 4 is as clear as that number 4 comes after number 3. Of course they're going to build in new features into the device and OS, do the idiots who go into frenzy when they hear about "iPhone 4" really think Apple said "we have enough money, we don't need to make any new products."?
I don't think it works that way... no way Google would hammer a site by forwarding queries that its users have entered.. for one thing target.com would go up in smokes a few seconds after such a mode is activated.
Maybe target's got a database of what its customers have queried in its own search pages, and created a page somewhere with "failed queries: [1] [2] [3]", and it let Google visit [1], [2], and [3], entering those pages into its Borg-mainframe..
If they do go ahead with it, the serious backlash will surely bring down the Berlusconi regime. Or is this just wishful thinking? His media power has really brainwashed the majority of citizens there..
Geezus Freaking H. Christ... What 565 lbs. looks like.
Someone should really pre-empt this and tell the propaganda channel known as Fox News to double-check their chevrons...
If I were a president who inherited 2 messy wars that I didn't start, with the population of my country screaming "we have to get out of there!" because my country is burning its citizen's money as fast as it can shovel into the furnace, I would ask myself what would happen if I do pull out my troops.
Will there be civil wars and more slaughter? Will Taliban and Al-Qaeda return to power in Afghanistan, be emboldened in Pakistan and will that increase the risk that they seize power there too? Remember, Pakistan has nukes. Now the "dirty bomb scenario" becomes a nudge more realistic.
I would not be able to sleep with the decision to leave those people to die.
It's about cleaning up the mess your country started. Cleaning up a mess, which if you walk away from, will cause a lot of people to suffer, and a lot of people to die. You can walk away and no harm will be done to you, a tarnished reputation maybe but you still have money and Hollywood to buy other countries' love. Sure some people will say, "it's now their own responsibility to clean up their mess.", but I still can't buy that line... come on, who really fucked it all up? Do you really believe Rumsfeld and Co. did their best to save that place, and it's the Iraqis' own incompetence which is at fault? This is Rumsfeld that can't even protect his own men!
It was either Salam Pax or Raed Jarrar, the 2 (once-)famous Iraqi bloggers, who wrote, and I reinterpret, the US is going to pull out of Iraq one day, and after a while the public will forget that little adventure of theirs -- "hey we fixed that problem that was burning our money and killing our men (and women), so we can sleep soundly now!" -- but for people in Iraq the chaos will not be forgotten, because it would still be ongoing.
Haha, I just re-read my post and realized I phrased the sentence you quoted poorly, sorry my english, not so good. ;-P
What I meant was, since the US is turning into a poor-ass nation, there won't be any more problems with migrants wanting to move there. I read somewhere that the rate of migration (for legal and illegal migration) to the US is actually slowing, precisely because of the country's declining economy.
So, congrats, the mostly white Wall Street types and mostly white Bush administration solved the problem of migrants attracted to your rich country, by making it no longer a rich country! So Bush actually reduced the number of illegal immigration! Gooo Bush!
I actually don't give a shit about a racist that is you, I just want to laugh at your racist face for ending up in a nation which is rapidly becoming a 3rd world one, in large part due to the man you probably voted to be your president, Senor George W. Bush. "Yeah, let's burn our money in 2 wars without thinking of the consequences, our strategy and how we can get out of there being better off." Heckuvajob, Bushie!
And who do you blame? The migrants of course. Probably just the non-European migrants though.
I'm sure the native Americans felt what you felt when they saw your white-ass ancestors migrating to their lands a few hundred years ago...
Well good then that the "European" bankers in Wall Street bankrupted the nation. Well that and the Bush nightmare team. No longer a wealthy nation, no longer a problem to import migrants, right?
Or was it those ethnic sub-prime borrowers who did it?
I'd venture to say TrueCrypt containers, when that corruption occurs at the place where they store the encrypted symmetrical key. Depending on the size of said container it could be the whole harddisk. :)
Actually the dialogs-way is the way BlackBerry does it, usually with an option to "Don't show this again", i.e. "always say yes" or "always say no". It does this for many features like contacts reading, access to the messages (apps can hook and get a notification each time a new message arrives), and even telephony (yes the API actually lets you send DTMF tones). There's an extra layer, apps accessing protected APIs must be digitally signed, so they have your identity (just like Apple does). And you can change the security answers under Settings.
Captcha: paranoia . how apt.
BTW, if the original "anti-virus expert" really put unlock and jailbreak as the same thing, he needs to learn more about iPhones.
Jailbreak is breaking out of the chroot jail. It gives you root access so you can do wonderful things like install an SSH-daemon (which, unfortunately uses a standard password which the worms out there are exploiting now), as well as install apps that you want instead of only those that's passed Apple's draconian approval service.
Unlocking is SIM-unlocking, its purpose is so that an unauthorized SIM card (in the US that means non-AT&T) works on the iPhone. If you're using an AT&T card, you don't need to unlock, but you can still jailbreak. You need to run a software not authorized by Apple to do the unlock, so to unlock you *need* to jailbreak.
As for F-Secure, eh, fuck 'em. Their threat of Symbian viruses is also snake oil, it requires the most idiotic of idiots to see "Hmm someone wants to send me something over BlueTooth. OK I'll accept. Transfer finished. Let's open it. Oh it wants to install an app, should I install or should I deny?" and F-Secure sells you unproven protection if you say "install". Goddamnit, if you are so goddamned dumb, you deserve to get swindled by this company.
NetViewer is free for personal use, and the connection survives the latency of a Europe to South East Asia connection (which VNC failed to manage for me).
Of course it's very possible that there are people outside of Mainland China writing about Tiannamen, using simplified Chinese. A Google search (not a Bing one!) should confirm that.
So who speaks simplified Chinese?
That is the stupidest thing I have ever read.
Not really, MS Word I think has "Close All", but it doesn't exit the app. How do you justify that? Exit is an application-specific function, not a file-specific function, and as the commenter before you correctly says, Apple at least is a bit cleverer in that it has a "Safari" menu option.
Congrats on being the only interesting post so far. Everybody else is just complaining about the bloat in sites nowadays, which is valid, but I guess unavoidable. I just realize some sites might have 200+ inline elements, and the combined HTTP headers (plus TCP, etc overhead) on that isn't trivial, so this technology will surely help. Oh well, that's IT isn't it, Intel builds faster CPUs, and Microsoft builds bloatier software. I installed "Windows Live Mail" and "Windows Live Messenger" for a friend yesterday, and these 2 pieces of software (mail, and chat) takes up 100 MB. 100 MB!
Also, where's the logic of application menus, why is "Exit" put under "File", I thought File is for file-specific functions like open, save and print.
And then some clever morons thought "What do users do with options? They change them, they edit them! That's right, we'll put Preferences under Edit [see Firefox in Debian]".
No wonder people get confused by computers.
But the user gets presented with Paypal's site and they say, "Confirm you want to pay nigerianprince@yahoo.com $25,000", so Paypal won't lie to you about the price.
But then, if it's actually paypa1.com, clueless users won't realize what's going on after all.
Ugh, why IE.. you can use Firefox with multiple profiles (Google it, or should I say "Bing it"), or do what I do, use Chrome, and jump into porn (aka private) mode if I want to login to another account.
Man, but how many of them are willing to pay? Well, enough I guess. As for the rest, someone could infiltrate the tea-bagging community and make them go to Fox's HQ and protest Rupert's decision. Imagine that, the tea-baggers turning against the entity that created them.
or just make a non-pay www.f0xnews.com (notice the zero), and slowly subvert their minds from right-wing propaganda...
O RLY? AFAIK VLC and Windows Media Player are HW-accelerated, I've made a GreaseMonkey script that replaces the YouTube player with the VLC plugin so that it plays on my 1 GHz PC (it's ridiculous that a 1 GHz hardware couldn't play 320x200 video smoothly, it's a testament to how ugly the software is), and the smoothness makes me believe it's HW-accelerated.
I wonder how hard it'll be to pull a massive prank like that. Considering the media fell for balloon boy, it should be easy.
Just get a fake ambulance crew, fake crowd, fake paparazzi and some people with Twitpic accounts. Bring out an actor on a stretcher out of a hotel into an ambulance, get crowd to spread the word to real people that it's Mr. Jackass, let the "twitterers" take some useless pics (oh look an ambulance!), and let the story roll!
Also, someone should pretend to be his publicist and start calling up the media.. and tell them there's a fake representation calling to say he's still alive. :)
> Looking forward to them exporting their values and ideals to the rest of the world too?
As opposed to the US values and ideals? "We don't torture*","Justice and fair trial for all**", and what else..
* except that they fucking do!!!
** 7 years in a 4x4x4ft cage with no proof of guilt, or one based on a confession beaten out of you, or one by a military tribunal where your lawyer is at best not allowed to talk to you in confidence, and at worst is working against you?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27friedman.html -- basically, while in the US obstructionists are still yelling "climate change is a myth!", China is going green because it's realized it has poisoned its citizen enough. Look forward to them exporting their tech to the rest of the world...