These days Facebook's "smart" means show you half a dozen of your friends' posts, then and endless scroll of paid placement newsfeed.
Google News has gone downhill as well. It used to let you choose topics to follow, including as many locations as you like. About 5 years ago, setting more than one location stopped working, and as of a couple of months ago, local news is so heavily biased by their "smart" algorithms that any attempt to try to customize your feed is pointless, as it gets wiped out within a couple of days.
I've had it with these companies deciding they know better than me what I want to see. It's ripe for another round in the GeoCities/Yahoo->MySpace/Altavista->Facebook/Google->... cycle.
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It has always been my firm belief that the key to a successful Mediterranean diet is consuming copious quantities of wine. Everything else becomes irrelevant once you've mastered that part of it.
For many companies it needs to be harder, not easier to push into production. The emphasis should not be on the "one button" to promote from development to production, it should be on the well defined process that leads to that button.
I'd be pretty surprised if they had any staff who were not 100% dedicated to selling "extended warranties" and "interest free" loans with massive penalty clauses and inertia terms designed to trigger those penalties.
The Turkish trademark is for the rather broad category of "services", so food or drink would probably get past it. There are 88 US trademarks for "Periscope", so whoever it was wasn't very good at choosing unique names to be recognized by.
Twitter, Apple and Google are just lazy and want to be able to do treat trademark law the same way they are already treating tax law. WIPO has an online search where you can easily search for trademark conflicts worldwide. It's a few minutes work to punch in some spelling variants and check that any conflicts that come up are not in similar industries.
The danger is not the bureaucrats. It is malicious ambulance chasing lawyers who use the vaguity of the language to shake down sites who don't have the means to fight against them. You can extend your finger to the bureaucrats as much as you like, if the lawyers find a jurisdiction where you not turning up to court means an automatic judgement in their favour, they will play this to keep courts from actually deciding on the limits of what occasional means, and you could face arrest for unpaid fines if you ever travel to an EU country.
Presumably, someone would have to pay for those servers, and/or figure out a way for them to talk to Google or Microsoft or other third-party servers if FaceTime were going to be truly open
If only there was a standard cross (X) Messaging Platform Protocol which messaging servers could use to talk to each other.
Producing fuel from the harvested CO2 is just delaying the actual release, as the fuel will be burned again and released as CO2 into the atmosphere (I'm sure harvesting is not going to be 100% efficient, so even if you are re-harvesting it, it isn't really a closed loop cycle).
Better would be to harvest CO2 for the production of carbon fibre and nanotech materials, as that would take it out of the loop on a longer term basis, while still having a useful and valuable byproduct (the lack of which is the disadvantage of just burying it). I'm not a tree, nor a chemist, so I don't know how difficult the separation of CO2 to C and O2 is, but it seems obvious that solutions should be aiming in that direction.
That's nice. Would a day have still been defined as approximately 1/365.25 of a revolution around the sun? We could all pretend we're in Scandinavia every few days, when it is dark all day and light all night.
This must be a US "feature". Around here, you get a caller id converted to a name if it's in your phonebook, or on Android there's an option to let Google search for a company to match the number to. There is no third party service run by the robocallers that is selling databases of phished contact details back to the phone companies.
It doesn't include systemd support, having not had an update since 2001, but I'm sure to many here that will be the killer feature that entices them to switch to XEmacs.
The GPL is quite simple. Figuring out all the dependencies in a complex system, and what to do about all the oddball packages with their own non-standard licenses is the more difficult part. But most companies don't do the due diligence properly. The legal department isn't technically capable of figuring out what the dependencies are, and the software department considers it an unwelcome distraction from their main job, so it does have a tendency to be superficially signed off with many things missed out. Even popular base distros for embedded work like Yocto have GPL dependencies several layers deep in widely used libraries lurking there to trap the unwary.
What do you do when your source code reveals an API to some licensed module which is not itself open source and you are under NDA not to reveal its details?
If you wrote the software yourself, you rewrite it to come into compliance with the license. If the software was supplied to you by a vendor, you give them an ultimatum to solve the issue within a reasonable timeframe and to indemnify you against any claims for the period where you are shipping non-compliant software. Going 6 years without a solution is not reasonable.
A leader would release source code at the same time as launching the product. I don't think Tesla deserves any accolades for fulfilling their legal obligation 6 years too late.
I don't know what decade your bank is living in, but my bank clears transactions within seconds - I often get an SMS before the receipt has printed out.
Debit cards in Europe often contain a flag (and some used to have it printed on the card, but I haven't seen that for some time) saying they can only be used for online transactions, as there is no way to ensure the funds are available if the transaction is offline. I would be surprised if it was the case that data connections were more intermittent in Europe - I know there is a lot of very old infrastructure in Europe like 2000 year old sewers compared with the US, but telecommunications infrastructure is only rarely that old.
I always thought the fake news debacle was about the viral crap that friends share. I didn't know they had started posting actual news stories to the feed. My feed was always set to "Most Recent" since they introduce the rubbish "Top Stories" feed that shows me everything I don't want to see and nothing I do want. But lately they keep switching the feed to "Top Stories" if I log in on a PC, so I see a handful of my friends posts followed by an endless scroll of news stories. For now, the mobile web interface is still usable, but if that goes, I'm outta there.
But with Google News's recent slip into showing only crappy local news and removing most of the options for customizing the feed, I can see why Facebook thought there was an opportunity. Even the "world" section now shows only stories about the country where I am's interaction with the outside world for me - it reminds me of when I'm in the US and getting free copies of "US Today" in my hotel.
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These days Facebook's "smart" means show you half a dozen of your friends' posts, then and endless scroll of paid placement newsfeed. Google News has gone downhill as well. It used to let you choose topics to follow, including as many locations as you like. About 5 years ago, setting more than one location stopped working, and as of a couple of months ago, local news is so heavily biased by their "smart" algorithms that any attempt to try to customize your feed is pointless, as it gets wiped out within a couple of days. I've had it with these companies deciding they know better than me what I want to see. It's ripe for another round in the GeoCities/Yahoo->MySpace/Altavista->Facebook/Google->... cycle. .
It has always been my firm belief that the key to a successful Mediterranean diet is consuming copious quantities of wine. Everything else becomes irrelevant once you've mastered that part of it.
For many companies it needs to be harder, not easier to push into production. The emphasis should not be on the "one button" to promote from development to production, it should be on the well defined process that leads to that button.
It's reassuring that after all these years, and changes of ownership, Slashdot remains the same as it always has been.
You miss the point of this AI. It is to help Uber drivers find victims, not to avoid them.
Someone needs to patent an AI that can determine if your Uber driver is a murderer or rapist.
I'd be pretty surprised if they had any staff who were not 100% dedicated to selling "extended warranties" and "interest free" loans with massive penalty clauses and inertia terms designed to trigger those penalties.
The Turkish trademark is for the rather broad category of "services", so food or drink would probably get past it. There are 88 US trademarks for "Periscope", so whoever it was wasn't very good at choosing unique names to be recognized by.
Twitter, Apple and Google are just lazy and want to be able to do treat trademark law the same way they are already treating tax law. WIPO has an online search where you can easily search for trademark conflicts worldwide. It's a few minutes work to punch in some spelling variants and check that any conflicts that come up are not in similar industries.
The danger is not the bureaucrats. It is malicious ambulance chasing lawyers who use the vaguity of the language to shake down sites who don't have the means to fight against them. You can extend your finger to the bureaucrats as much as you like, if the lawyers find a jurisdiction where you not turning up to court means an automatic judgement in their favour, they will play this to keep courts from actually deciding on the limits of what occasional means, and you could face arrest for unpaid fines if you ever travel to an EU country.
Presumably, someone would have to pay for those servers, and/or figure out a way for them to talk to Google or Microsoft or other third-party servers if FaceTime were going to be truly open
If only there was a standard cross (X) Messaging Platform Protocol which messaging servers could use to talk to each other.
Producing fuel from the harvested CO2 is just delaying the actual release, as the fuel will be burned again and released as CO2 into the atmosphere (I'm sure harvesting is not going to be 100% efficient, so even if you are re-harvesting it, it isn't really a closed loop cycle).
Better would be to harvest CO2 for the production of carbon fibre and nanotech materials, as that would take it out of the loop on a longer term basis, while still having a useful and valuable byproduct (the lack of which is the disadvantage of just burying it). I'm not a tree, nor a chemist, so I don't know how difficult the separation of CO2 to C and O2 is, but it seems obvious that solutions should be aiming in that direction.
Actually it was the unicode consortium that introduced 157 new emojis back in February. iOS 12 and Android P are just following suit.
That's nice. Would a day have still been defined as approximately 1/365.25 of a revolution around the sun? We could all pretend we're in Scandinavia every few days, when it is dark all day and light all night.
This must be a US "feature". Around here, you get a caller id converted to a name if it's in your phonebook, or on Android there's an option to let Google search for a company to match the number to. There is no third party service run by the robocallers that is selling databases of phished contact details back to the phone companies.
Just because those are the questions, it doesn't mean you need to give truthful answers. As far as my bank knows, my mother's maiden name is hunter2.
These have always been useless security questions, as birth records are public documents.
It doesn't include systemd support, having not had an update since 2001, but I'm sure to many here that will be the killer feature that entices them to switch to XEmacs.
The GPL is quite simple. Figuring out all the dependencies in a complex system, and what to do about all the oddball packages with their own non-standard licenses is the more difficult part. But most companies don't do the due diligence properly. The legal department isn't technically capable of figuring out what the dependencies are, and the software department considers it an unwelcome distraction from their main job, so it does have a tendency to be superficially signed off with many things missed out. Even popular base distros for embedded work like Yocto have GPL dependencies several layers deep in widely used libraries lurking there to trap the unwary.
What do you do when your source code reveals an API to some licensed module which is not itself open source and you are under NDA not to reveal its details?
If you wrote the software yourself, you rewrite it to come into compliance with the license. If the software was supplied to you by a vendor, you give them an ultimatum to solve the issue within a reasonable timeframe and to indemnify you against any claims for the period where you are shipping non-compliant software. Going 6 years without a solution is not reasonable.
A leader would release source code at the same time as launching the product. I don't think Tesla deserves any accolades for fulfilling their legal obligation 6 years too late.
I don't know what decade your bank is living in, but my bank clears transactions within seconds - I often get an SMS before the receipt has printed out.
Debit cards in Europe often contain a flag (and some used to have it printed on the card, but I haven't seen that for some time) saying they can only be used for online transactions, as there is no way to ensure the funds are available if the transaction is offline. I would be surprised if it was the case that data connections were more intermittent in Europe - I know there is a lot of very old infrastructure in Europe like 2000 year old sewers compared with the US, but telecommunications infrastructure is only rarely that old.
And debit cards are purple. Who do you think runs the biggest debit card network?
I always thought the fake news debacle was about the viral crap that friends share. I didn't know they had started posting actual news stories to the feed. My feed was always set to "Most Recent" since they introduce the rubbish "Top Stories" feed that shows me everything I don't want to see and nothing I do want. But lately they keep switching the feed to "Top Stories" if I log in on a PC, so I see a handful of my friends posts followed by an endless scroll of news stories. For now, the mobile web interface is still usable, but if that goes, I'm outta there.
But with Google News's recent slip into showing only crappy local news and removing most of the options for customizing the feed, I can see why Facebook thought there was an opportunity. Even the "world" section now shows only stories about the country where I am's interaction with the outside world for me - it reminds me of when I'm in the US and getting free copies of "US Today" in my hotel.