For the tiny minority who care about the distinction between Chinese and Japanese characters, there is always GB18030, which I believe can make the distinction, or ISO2022 which definitely can, at the expense of needing to reconstruct context when copying small subsets of text between documents. For the rest of the world (including 99%+ of China and Japan), the issue does not exist, as they want Japanese or Chinese, or neither.
I'm running Android 2.1 on HTC Desire, using Opera and the site is so slow it's not even funny.
Android 4.2 on Samsung Galaxy S2, using Chrome is exactly the same - slow, scrolling works sporadically and mostly is misinterpreted as a click, then the back button takes you back to the top of the page so you have to go through the trying to scroll nightmare again. So basically, nothing in the parent's environment can be singled out as the cause of this problem.
I can't even scroll down easily and when I do it jumps into an article that I didn't select. And it doesn't look good. Maybe it's opera mobile's fault
That was exactly my experience on Chrome for Android about a week ago when I selected the mobile beta. Additionally, it's as slow as a dog and missing features of the "classic" site.
Maybe it has completely improved in taking it out of beta, but given past Slashdot UI changes, I'll give it at least 6 months before I try it again.
The biggest problem with life on moons orbiting gas giants has to be the amount of time they will spend in the shadow of said gas giant, freezing their balls off in the dark.
The purpose of airbnb from the summary is far less mystifying than what an "illegal hotel" is
My suspicion is that "hotel" in Amsterdam has the same relation to normal English usage as "coffee shop" does. Probably whatever a "legal hotel" is in Amsterdam would be illegal in most of the rest of the world.
Indeed, they already released a fix for it. It's called iCloud. Keeping things in the privacy of your own disk is now officially a bug (soon to be reclassified as user error).
No, the problem here is that she gets to see her raw listenership numbers. In the days of radio, she would have got a $50 cheque from ASCAP once a year, and not had any expectation of making a living off her music. Now she sees "OMG, 1.5M plays of my song, that's a lot!" and expects to become a millionaire rockstar overnight.
you should have a plan before building a house and you should also have a plan before building software
Not necessarily (at least not in so much detail). Refactoring a house partway through because the original plan was found to be deficient is very expensive, so your plans need to be very detailed up front, and architects tend to be conservative about including too much out of the ordinary in the plan. The plans are also in the form of drawings, which are easy for the customer to review and approve. With software on the other hand, the requirements from the customer are usually very vague, and it is often better use of time (cost) to jump straight in and create a prototype to get feedback from the customer than to spend a lot of time up front writing specifications that the customer will sign off without reading properly, then get upset at the end because what was delivered wasn't what they had in mind.
I must have missed that math class. We covered natural numbers, whole numbers, imaginary numbers, and some others I can't recall right now, but I never before encountered improper funny numbers. Sounds interesting.
Western nomenclature is given_name family_name. Eastern is flipped.
That is only true of Chinese, Korean and Japanese names. In the rest of the East, if you are lucky, there may be a patronym that fits into the surname field.
If Kim is the given name then the probably female
I'd give the chance at slightly higher than if it was a surname. Kim is a male given name too (Dotcom, for a well known example).
But at least when I pick up the phone I can chose to be formal (using the family name) or informal (using the given name.)
But if what you thought was a surname is actually a patronym, then addressing the person by that alone is not "formal", it is just wrong.
But when I can have a dozen xterms open on my screen why on earth would I bother doing it all inside an editor?
When I can have a dozen ttys open on virtual consoles, why on earth would I bother doing it all inside X?
Or more seriously, if I run a shell inside Emacs, then I have all the editing commands of Emacs at my fingertips. shell-command-on-region is an obvious one that saves a lot of head this/tail that to narrow down the part of the previous command that I want to operate on for the next command in the pipe.
Forgive me, but is that true? I live in NZ and most planes to/from here are 747s of some colour.
I suggest you go down to Auckland airport and look at what planes have been coming and going for the last 10 years or so. Most flights to/from NZ now are using B777's and A330s. They used to use a lot of 747's because it was the only aircraft with enough range to go anywhere beyond Australia or Singapore, but it was never needed for the capacity on those routes.
Don't worry, the US will fix that in their next "free" trade "agreement", just as they have done in the past with your antiquated copyright laws that failed to meet the needs of poor, disadvantaged global media conglomorates.
The Singapore packing plant is one of their largest as far as i know.
You're probably meaning the Malaysia plants in Penang and nearby Kulim (which operate as a single entity AFAIK). Singapore doesn't have the land area for a plant that could be considered one of Intel's largest, and no Singapore plant is listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites
Especially when the Android emulator that comes with the official Android SDK has been able to do just this ever since the SDK was publically released.
VoIP/SIP support is there in Android, it's just fairly well hidden (not in the main Settings menu, but in the Phone application's Settings menu, labelled as "Accounts", not to be confused with another menu labelled "Accounts" that controls the contact syncing with various providers). DLNA is an add on - most Samsung phones have it out of the box (branded as AllShare), I'm not sure why yours doesn't.
"out of the box functionality to choose which phone calls can be directly diverted to/dev/null or voicemail."
sending to voicemail is standard since 2.x. Ignore with an free app.
I set persistant marketers ringtone to silent (using out of the box functionality in Android), which is effectively the same as ignore.
"It uses a decent profile system so when I'm at work I can set it to vibrate only with just changing profiles."
I guess they are there since 2.x. But I used free apps for that long before.
I think profiles have only been available out of the box since 4.0, or even 4.1. But they are easily added through free apps. I use Llama, even in 4.2, as it has the automated switching based on more than just time (I think 4.2 has time based profile switching out of the box). I use it to
Switch to silent, start "Night Clock" and leave the screen on when the phone is plugged into a charger at night.
Kill Night Clock and set the screen timeout to 30s when I unplug the charger.
Switch my Alarm tone to silent when a holiday is marked in my calendar (if I need to set an alarm for a holiday, I can use a different Alarm tone).
Turn off WiFi when my car's Bluetooth connects (I think this is unneccesary now, but in 2.3 having WiFi on used to cause Bluetooth audio to skip every few seconds when it searched for access points).
Switch to vibrate when I have a meeting scheduled.
Switch to Loud when I leave my house or workplace, and back to Normal when I return.
I like the idea of rolling releases, but given the amount of massively stupid crap that Ubuntu springs on us by just rolling it into a new release (unity, I'm looking at you), I also like the idea of freezing a Ubuntu box at a non-ugly release and having a box that at least receives security updates for a few years
I've been through both types - from Debian stable (freezing), to Debian unstable (rolling release), to Ubuntu (6 monthly releases), and the rolling release worked out best. Minor issues caused by updates come up every now and then, and are easy to deal with, rather than bunching them up into a major headache every 6 months (Ubuntu), or building up to the point where you're better off rebuilding the system from scratch (Debian stable, or Ubuntu LTS).
Indeed. The poster needs to relax and enjoy the journey. Is he really going to stay within close proximity of his luggage for two days to avoid setting off his proximity alarm? Dragging it with him whenever he leaves his compartment to go to the toilet, dining car or just to stretch his legs and relieve the monotony of being in a small enclosed space for two days on end?
Tomcat was originally built by Sun as the reference implementation of a servlet container. They handed it over to the Apache foundation to maintain when they decided it competed too well with whatever J2EE server they were trying to sell at the time. But its code base is still completely separate from Apache httpd.
The official Tomcat installer for Windows (as in, the one that you'd download from tomcat.apache.org [apache.org] installs the Tomcat Native Connector, which improves performance considerably.
Only if you're going through another server, and comparing it to the older connectors for that purpose (which went through an additional network socket). If you're going for speed, you'd be better off serving the HTTP direct from Tomcat and cutting Apache or IIS out of the loop entirely. It used to be worth deploying Tomcat behind another web server so static content could be served without touching Tomcat, which was very slow at delivering files from the filesystem compared with other servers. But that hasn't been true since Tomcat 4.1 or so.
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For the tiny minority who care about the distinction between Chinese and Japanese characters, there is always GB18030, which I believe can make the distinction, or ISO2022 which definitely can, at the expense of needing to reconstruct context when copying small subsets of text between documents. For the rest of the world (including 99%+ of China and Japan), the issue does not exist, as they want Japanese or Chinese, or neither.
Android 4.2 on Samsung Galaxy S2, using Chrome is exactly the same - slow, scrolling works sporadically and mostly is misinterpreted as a click, then the back button takes you back to the top of the page so you have to go through the trying to scroll nightmare again. So basically, nothing in the parent's environment can be singled out as the cause of this problem.
That was exactly my experience on Chrome for Android about a week ago when I selected the mobile beta. Additionally, it's as slow as a dog and missing features of the "classic" site.
Maybe it has completely improved in taking it out of beta, but given past Slashdot UI changes, I'll give it at least 6 months before I try it again.
The biggest problem with life on moons orbiting gas giants has to be the amount of time they will spend in the shadow of said gas giant, freezing their balls off in the dark.
My suspicion is that "hotel" in Amsterdam has the same relation to normal English usage as "coffee shop" does. Probably whatever a "legal hotel" is in Amsterdam would be illegal in most of the rest of the world.
Indeed, they already released a fix for it. It's called iCloud. Keeping things in the privacy of your own disk is now officially a bug (soon to be reclassified as user error).
No, the problem here is that she gets to see her raw listenership numbers. In the days of radio, she would have got a $50 cheque from ASCAP once a year, and not had any expectation of making a living off her music. Now she sees "OMG, 1.5M plays of my song, that's a lot!" and expects to become a millionaire rockstar overnight.
Not necessarily (at least not in so much detail). Refactoring a house partway through because the original plan was found to be deficient is very expensive, so your plans need to be very detailed up front, and architects tend to be conservative about including too much out of the ordinary in the plan. The plans are also in the form of drawings, which are easy for the customer to review and approve. With software on the other hand, the requirements from the customer are usually very vague, and it is often better use of time (cost) to jump straight in and create a prototype to get feedback from the customer than to spend a lot of time up front writing specifications that the customer will sign off without reading properly, then get upset at the end because what was delivered wasn't what they had in mind.
That's not at all true. AEGIS has been proven to be very effective against the threat posed by commercial passenger jets.
I must have missed that math class. We covered natural numbers, whole numbers, imaginary numbers, and some others I can't recall right now, but I never before encountered improper funny numbers. Sounds interesting.
That is only true of Chinese, Korean and Japanese names. In the rest of the East, if you are lucky, there may be a patronym that fits into the surname field.
I'd give the chance at slightly higher than if it was a surname. Kim is a male given name too (Dotcom, for a well known example).
But if what you thought was a surname is actually a patronym, then addressing the person by that alone is not "formal", it is just wrong.
I suspect the main reason I install this is the main reason Mozilla don't want to disable Flash by default: annoying animated ads.
When I can have a dozen ttys open on virtual consoles, why on earth would I bother doing it all inside X?
Or more seriously, if I run a shell inside Emacs, then I have all the editing commands of Emacs at my fingertips. shell-command-on-region is an obvious one that saves a lot of head this/tail that to narrow down the part of the previous command that I want to operate on for the next command in the pipe.
You mean smaller long range planes like the A340 and A330?
I suggest you go down to Auckland airport and look at what planes have been coming and going for the last 10 years or so. Most flights to/from NZ now are using B777's and A330s. They used to use a lot of 747's because it was the only aircraft with enough range to go anywhere beyond Australia or Singapore, but it was never needed for the capacity on those routes.
Don't worry, the US will fix that in their next "free" trade "agreement", just as they have done in the past with your antiquated copyright laws that failed to meet the needs of poor, disadvantaged global media conglomorates.
You're probably meaning the Malaysia plants in Penang and nearby Kulim (which operate as a single entity AFAIK). Singapore doesn't have the land area for a plant that could be considered one of Intel's largest, and no Singapore plant is listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites
Especially when the Android emulator that comes with the official Android SDK has been able to do just this ever since the SDK was publically released.
VoIP/SIP support is there in Android, it's just fairly well hidden (not in the main Settings menu, but in the Phone application's Settings menu, labelled as "Accounts", not to be confused with another menu labelled "Accounts" that controls the contact syncing with various providers). DLNA is an add on - most Samsung phones have it out of the box (branded as AllShare), I'm not sure why yours doesn't.
I set persistant marketers ringtone to silent (using out of the box functionality in Android), which is effectively the same as ignore.
I think profiles have only been available out of the box since 4.0, or even 4.1. But they are easily added through free apps. I use Llama, even in 4.2, as it has the automated switching based on more than just time (I think 4.2 has time based profile switching out of the box). I use it to
I've been through both types - from Debian stable (freezing), to Debian unstable (rolling release), to Ubuntu (6 monthly releases), and the rolling release worked out best. Minor issues caused by updates come up every now and then, and are easy to deal with, rather than bunching them up into a major headache every 6 months (Ubuntu), or building up to the point where you're better off rebuilding the system from scratch (Debian stable, or Ubuntu LTS).
Near the equator, people stay indoors during daylight hours to avoid the heat. Rain mostly comes during the evening anyway.
Indeed. The poster needs to relax and enjoy the journey. Is he really going to stay within close proximity of his luggage for two days to avoid setting off his proximity alarm? Dragging it with him whenever he leaves his compartment to go to the toilet, dining car or just to stretch his legs and relieve the monotony of being in a small enclosed space for two days on end?
Tomcat was originally built by Sun as the reference implementation of a servlet container. They handed it over to the Apache foundation to maintain when they decided it competed too well with whatever J2EE server they were trying to sell at the time. But its code base is still completely separate from Apache httpd.
Only if you're going through another server, and comparing it to the older connectors for that purpose (which went through an additional network socket). If you're going for speed, you'd be better off serving the HTTP direct from Tomcat and cutting Apache or IIS out of the loop entirely. It used to be worth deploying Tomcat behind another web server so static content could be served without touching Tomcat, which was very slow at delivering files from the filesystem compared with other servers. But that hasn't been true since Tomcat 4.1 or so.