Now I've got a Motorola RAZR, and they've somehow lost the ability to recognize that a single person can have multiple numbers.
If its anything like the Motorola I used to own, it has this limitation for numbers stored on the SIM, but its internal phonebook is as good as any phone's. That said, every other phone I've owned for the last 8 years (Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, Sony Ericcson) has had no problem keeping numbers from the SIM card organized in the internal phonebook's structure.
I thought the "Asian values" movement went out of fashion in the 1990s. Lets face it, authoritarian psuedo-democracies who met out excessive punishments for non-conformity are ugly, no matter whose notions of freedom and morality you use.
My understanding is that Singapore's punishment for littering, vandalism, drugs, and most everything else, is far more severe than most liberal democracies would tolerate.
That's probably because Singapore isn't exactly a liberal democracy
They're screaming, for fuck's sake. The glorification of barbaric japanese "culture" by most geeks sickens me.
So tell me, which are you, vegan or hypocrite? Ever heard a pig or cow being slaughtered? They "scream" too, it doesn't stop most of us from eating them for dinner.
Your experience is the complete opposite of mine. I had an old "Windows only" Lexmark printer, that used to work with Windows 98 and ME, but when I took advantage of the free XP upgrade with my new machine a few years ago, I could not find any drivers for it. I plugged it into a Linux machine and it was detected by CUPS and worked out of the box. In another instance I got a laptop for work which was preinstalled with Windows XP Home and came with only a reinstall disk, no separate drivers disk. It got wiped and reinstalled with the company's standard XP Pro image, but half the hardware did not work. When I installed Ubuntu (dual boot), everything was detected and worked out of the box. This let me find out what brand and model all the hardware was (Windows System Information did not show anything it didn't recognize) so I could hunt down drivers for most of it. The last one was the graphics card, an OEM version of a fairly common NVidia chipset. Standard NVidia drivers worked on Linux, but not on Windows. I eventually found a forum post which detailed how to unpack the Windows drivers, add in the ID for the OEM chipset and repack it so it would install, but it is not an experience I would wish on anyone.
Well no, the thing is, it isn't. There are minor tweaks intended to fix specific bugs, but the main improvements in CSS support have been held back until 3.0. And some of those minor tweaks have broken perfectly valid CSS that 1.5 (and even IE 6) rendered perfectly. I've seen it myself, and it is ugly.
Windows upgrades have always worked on bare hard drives by inserting a CD (or floppy) for the product you are upgrading from, no need to have it actually installed. This may change of course, with this new WGA bollocks.
So how do the BBC charge a lower fee, provide more channels of higher quality, run Europe's most popular content-based website and make more original programming, whilst not having advertising on any of their (license-fee-supported) channels?
Sales revenue. There is a huge English speaking market which BBC can sell their original programming to. How much of a market for German TV do you think there is outside of Germany? The only time I've seen German programming outside Germany was as low budget filler at 2am (even though it was in English, and a good quality science documentary).
Of course, these days when you buy a TV you have to give your name and address (no idea what happens if you refuse), so they automatically know who owns a TV and don't need any of that silliness.
They still use the vans, or at least did 5 years ago when I didn't own a TV, and had told them so half a dozen times already (they send out demands for payment every month to any address that is not already paying) before giving up and throwing any mail from TV Licensing straight in the bin. I arrived home once to find one parked outside with its aerial pointing straight at my neighbour's window (I lived in a block of flats, they obviously read the floorplan wrong). I was looking forward to the court summons based on the "evidence" they had collected, and even took a photo showing them pointing at the wrong window, but maybe my neighbour wasn't watching TV at the time, as they left me alone after that.
Those videos should be classified as promotional material. Instead removing them, they should lower the resolution (as if there's need for it already) and audio quality (look previous brackets) and add some intro like 'If you want to see it in proper way - Buy It!'.
Most of the non-anime Japanese material on youtube is not for sale anywhere. So who was harmed by it being available on youtube? I just wonder how I can explain to my 2 year old half Japanese son that he can't watch his favorite children's TV shows any more because it is illegal for him to do so.
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Now I've got a Motorola RAZR, and they've somehow lost the ability to recognize that a single person can have multiple numbers.
If its anything like the Motorola I used to own, it has this limitation for numbers stored on the SIM, but its internal phonebook is as good as any phone's. That said, every other phone I've owned for the last 8 years (Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, Sony Ericcson) has had no problem keeping numbers from the SIM card organized in the internal phonebook's structure.
Both Italy and Germany in the 30s had huge corporate blocks that had a lot of political power.
And don't forget the zaibatsu in Japan.
I thought the "Asian values" movement went out of fashion in the 1990s. Lets face it, authoritarian psuedo-democracies who met out excessive punishments for non-conformity are ugly, no matter whose notions of freedom and morality you use.
My understanding is that Singapore's punishment for littering, vandalism, drugs, and most everything else, is far more severe than most liberal democracies would tolerate.
That's probably because Singapore isn't exactly a liberal democracy
And Egypt is the second most moderate muslim country there is.
More moderate than Turkey, Malaysia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Senegal, Ivory Coast, UAE, Malives ....?
What do you mean? I'm sure most Slashdotters would have no problem spotting that the only word spelled that way is I-N-C-O-R-R-E-C-T-L-Y.
They're screaming, for fuck's sake. The glorification of barbaric japanese "culture" by most geeks sickens me.
So tell me, which are you, vegan or hypocrite? Ever heard a pig or cow being slaughtered? They "scream" too, it doesn't stop most of us from eating them for dinner.
Your experience is the complete opposite of mine. I had an old "Windows only" Lexmark printer, that used to work with Windows 98 and ME, but when I took advantage of the free XP upgrade with my new machine a few years ago, I could not find any drivers for it. I plugged it into a Linux machine and it was detected by CUPS and worked out of the box. In another instance I got a laptop for work which was preinstalled with Windows XP Home and came with only a reinstall disk, no separate drivers disk. It got wiped and reinstalled with the company's standard XP Pro image, but half the hardware did not work. When I installed Ubuntu (dual boot), everything was detected and worked out of the box. This let me find out what brand and model all the hardware was (Windows System Information did not show anything it didn't recognize) so I could hunt down drivers for most of it. The last one was the graphics card, an OEM version of a fairly common NVidia chipset. Standard NVidia drivers worked on Linux, but not on Windows. I eventually found a forum post which detailed how to unpack the Windows drivers, add in the ID for the OEM chipset and repack it so it would install, but it is not an experience I would wish on anyone.
I don't think YouTube are going to be too worried about this new startup, they've been doing it for almost 6 months already.
6) It's better than 1.5's CSS engine.
Well no, the thing is, it isn't. There are minor tweaks intended to fix specific bugs, but the main improvements in CSS support have been held back until 3.0. And some of those minor tweaks have broken perfectly valid CSS that 1.5 (and even IE 6) rendered perfectly. I've seen it myself, and it is ugly.
And extrapolating out, Vista SP1 will also be delayed indefinitely, as will the release candidate for whatever comes next.
Better sell those Microsoft shares now, this company doesn't look like its got much life left in it!
Also, just curious, but couldn't YouTube do this in, let's say, a few months?
Half a day would be more like it.
Yeah, its basically a YouTube ripoff with an MMS gateway tacked onto the front of it. Nothing Instant or Messaging about it.
Windows upgrades have always worked on bare hard drives by inserting a CD (or floppy) for the product you are upgrading from, no need to have it actually installed. This may change of course, with this new WGA bollocks.
How does that work?
There was a supernova that was pulling them together. It blew up.
Thanks, Captain Obvious. Any idea what this checkbox labeled "No Karma Bonus" is for?
D'oh, missed a closing quote on the first link, and slashdot scrubbed it.
The only AJAX I've heard of is the DHTML rebranding that presumes scripting is enabled and breaks the back button.
Well, let me introduce you to some more useful and entertaining ways to use Ajax.
Firefox, on the other hand, has no such limit
So what is this "50Mb" limit I see in the Cache section of the Advanced / Network tab of the Options dialog?
3. It is only 5 out of 51 pubs and clubs in the town.
So how do the BBC charge a lower fee, provide more channels of higher quality, run Europe's most popular content-based website and make more original programming, whilst not having advertising on any of their (license-fee-supported) channels?
Sales revenue. There is a huge English speaking market which BBC can sell their original programming to. How much of a market for German TV do you think there is outside of Germany? The only time I've seen German programming outside Germany was as low budget filler at 2am (even though it was in English, and a good quality science documentary).
Of course, these days when you buy a TV you have to give your name and address (no idea what happens if you refuse), so they automatically know who owns a TV and don't need any of that silliness.
They still use the vans, or at least did 5 years ago when I didn't own a TV, and had told them so half a dozen times already (they send out demands for payment every month to any address that is not already paying) before giving up and throwing any mail from TV Licensing straight in the bin. I arrived home once to find one parked outside with its aerial pointing straight at my neighbour's window (I lived in a block of flats, they obviously read the floorplan wrong). I was looking forward to the court summons based on the "evidence" they had collected, and even took a photo showing them pointing at the wrong window, but maybe my neighbour wasn't watching TV at the time, as they left me alone after that.
Those videos should be classified as promotional material. Instead removing them, they should lower the resolution (as if there's need for it already) and audio quality (look previous brackets) and add some intro like 'If you want to see it in proper way - Buy It!'.
Most of the non-anime Japanese material on youtube is not for sale anywhere. So who was harmed by it being available on youtube? I just wonder how I can explain to my 2 year old half Japanese son that he can't watch his favorite children's TV shows any more because it is illegal for him to do so.
> You do not talk about Usenet.
1. You do not talk about Usenet.
2. You *do* *not* *talk* *about* *Usenet*.
3. You *do* *not* *post* *in* *HTML*.
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