I'm not sure about the amount, but I'm pretty sure the companies suing actually have only a fraction of the pirated material on MegaUpload. You can get the latest crap from Lady Gaggag on any old (and new) torrent site, while these hosting download sites tend to have more software and books from smaller publishers. If the numbers are realistic those amounts would be much more helpful in the hands of indies;)
QR codes are a handy way to grab some URL for a site quickly rather than typing it into your phone, or taking a picture of the URL. I've seen them at the local game stores for information on new and upcoming games. Some people might not have Internet access right then and there - me included. I bring an iPod touch everywhere, QR app ready. It's especially nice when you forget the name of the product the moment you walk out the door:)
I guess they're handy for Android software installation, too. Buy stuff, get QR image, snap it with the device, APK link shows up. At least in theory it's simpler than plugging it into a computer and adding an extra upload step.
Like other posters I've never seen a QR reader app which automatically navigates to a site.
Yes! The article *is* terrible. The Address Book GUI is just decorated with more crap. I don't care much for it, but I don't find it harder to use the program because of it. He's complaining about OS X no longer looking like OS 9. 1)Things improve (thank fuck - did he just thaw out of cryogenic storage?). 2)You CAN get the same block of icons as in OS 9! It's called Launchpad in Lion.
He's basically whining like he's just now started looking at the interface, briefly, but didn't make any attempt to even search for customisation settings. Maybe he's on Snow Leopard, the caveman:)
Visa? Quite possibly. From what I've dealt with that side of things they seem fairly clued in on things, and always interested in not losing money. Imagine that:P
If MIDI devices are OK to suggest, mine is the Novation Launchpad. They have decent documentation for it, and its buttons can cover hundreds of functions at once, if programmed right.
I don't think it matters with separate directories. On a rescue disk you'd only have the essentials to get going anyway, right? But I agree that the abbreviations can be confusing. I'd love to see a simpler installation like OS X (NeXT) app bundles become the default. Since it's all mostly open source , or some commercial bits relying on open source frameworks (Gtk+, KDE/Qt) these app bundles would rarely need to bundle any dynamic libraries.
I doubt a mess of symlinks is avoidable for now, though. Linux has a lot of hard-coded legacy paths which programs unfortunately expect for all sorts of things. The ld system is configurable, so adding a/Library as the first stop to look shouldn't be a problem, but a lot of developer tools would need to be made aware. It seems like a hell of a process, but I'm all for it. Now to get millions of developers to see it my way:P
I've disabled Aero for different reasons: It doesn't disable fast enough, causing many old games (I don't play only the latest!) to crash/not launch. Plus I simply don't like the look:)
I dunno if the window manager was more or less perfect in the past (Windows is a game launcher), but the file manager has definitely lost features over time. In Win 7 you don't get a summary of free space in the bar below the file list - you can only see free space by clicking on a drive in My Computer. So newer isn't always better. There are tools on SourceForge to enable the old functionality, of course, but something as basic as knowing the free space on a drive while browsing a directory on it should always be within sight.
800 million users? How many citizens are there in the United States of America? Does this mean I can sign up and start influencing the US? I have some ideas...
I hope it's optional, because some of us write British English rather than American English. This tool won't do us much good if it starts correcting project names, for instance. 3rd party KDE developers would be even worse off;)
My ISP blocks outgoing, non-authenticated SMTP to outside services, and only accepts authenticated connections to their own service on the usual higher-numbered ports. I can still use my own SMTP service, since I use authenticated and encrypted connections on a different port. Spam trojans tend to try using the locally discovered SMTP service on port 25 (similar to how some Linux distros guess settings), which is easily stopped. There might be more cleverly designed botnets out there, of course, but isn't the whole point of some botnets to use as many different mail servers as possible to spew out spam?
Check if you have any aggressive AdBlock settings or similar. I had issues, despite using ClickToPlugin in Safari (which gets the video instead of Flash when available). Turns out trying to filter Flash ads doesn't always work well:)
Awesome prototype anyway. Looks like it took the better part of an evening to create one bowl, though!
OpenCL and Grand Central Dispatch? GCD allocates threads on whichever cores are necessary, while OpenCL gives you computing resources from whatever is available, based on what you accept. Seems fairly seamless and dynamic to me.
Another happy RapidWeaver user here. Hot tip: Buy the Stacks plugin too. All the stacks you can get for it cover nearly anything the average user could want. Video embedding, fancy sliding boxes of content, all sorts of jQuery tricks. If you can think of it, somebody has probably built a cheap or free stack to do it via simple drag, drop and configure.
400 years if you count that non-pillaging use, 300 or so if you count the US copyright law (second reference in that Wikipedia article on copyright infringement).
The pirates arrested were guilty of piracy in that sense: organised copying and redistribution for profit. Piracy is a fine word. What I'm opposed to is people being labelled pirates for just copying movies to watch, if they're going to use that definition:)
Doesn't look that new to me, either. A friend is hard of hearing and has an extra loudspeaker for phone+doorbell hooked up to the phone. Another device sends signals from the doorbell.
Twitter gets me in touch with other developers, and I learn about new software through mentions and retweets. Twitter is just another tool, but I've found it more useful than Facebook and such.
My spam volume is pretty much unchanged. I'll get a handful at the weekend (off to SpamCop it goes), and since registering a business some local companies using foreign servers have been sending me one or two unwanted comical e-mails per week. All my spam is either 419-scams or somebody trying to sell me somewhat legal business products these days. The old pharmaceutical spam doesn't even reach my inbox (thanks, Zimbra filters!).
I do have a very old and easily guessed e-mail account that I don't actually use, and just use to train filters. Whenever I activate it I can enjoy 100-200 new e-mails per day for the filters to chew on. This amount has not changed since the botnet went down, either.
I would think chip factory workers are in the $2000-$3000 per month range, but I have no data on that. Seems right when you compare all the sectors, though. Japan is about as expensive as a North European country, with wages to match. $20 per month would be unsustainable and illegal;)
Maybe it's because Japan is in the middle of the world? About as far east and west, and close to China/Taiwan, where they take chips and make motherboards and other things from them. Also centrally located for distribution (and incidentally much cheaper, not adding so much overhead once final products are built).
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I'm not sure about the amount, but I'm pretty sure the companies suing actually have only a fraction of the pirated material on MegaUpload. You can get the latest crap from Lady Gaggag on any old (and new) torrent site, while these hosting download sites tend to have more software and books from smaller publishers. If the numbers are realistic those amounts would be much more helpful in the hands of indies ;)
QR codes are a handy way to grab some URL for a site quickly rather than typing it into your phone, or taking a picture of the URL. I've seen them at the local game stores for information on new and upcoming games. Some people might not have Internet access right then and there - me included. I bring an iPod touch everywhere, QR app ready. It's especially nice when you forget the name of the product the moment you walk out the door :)
I guess they're handy for Android software installation, too. Buy stuff, get QR image, snap it with the device, APK link shows up. At least in theory it's simpler than plugging it into a computer and adding an extra upload step.
Like other posters I've never seen a QR reader app which automatically navigates to a site.
Would atheist you have praised himself all the time?
Where do you get 20%? PayPal charges about 3% at the most: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=marketing_us/fees
I use PayPal a lot to get paid, so I know these fees aren't 20% :)
Yes! The article *is* terrible. The Address Book GUI is just decorated with more crap. I don't care much for it, but I don't find it harder to use the program because of it. He's complaining about OS X no longer looking like OS 9. 1)Things improve (thank fuck - did he just thaw out of cryogenic storage?). 2)You CAN get the same block of icons as in OS 9! It's called Launchpad in Lion.
He's basically whining like he's just now started looking at the interface, briefly, but didn't make any attempt to even search for customisation settings. Maybe he's on Snow Leopard, the caveman :)
Every menu can be customised with a shortcut key of your choice on OS X. Even menus which don't have a shortcut by default.
Don't remember the menu? Ctrl+F2 (Fn also if you have alternate mode for your F-keys). More keys here: http://osxdaily.com/2007/12/13/navigating-mac-os-x-with-only-the-keyboard/
Visa? Quite possibly. From what I've dealt with that side of things they seem fairly clued in on things, and always interested in not losing money. Imagine that :P
If MIDI devices are OK to suggest, mine is the Novation Launchpad. They have decent documentation for it, and its buttons can cover hundreds of functions at once, if programmed right.
I don't think it matters with separate directories. On a rescue disk you'd only have the essentials to get going anyway, right? But I agree that the abbreviations can be confusing. I'd love to see a simpler installation like OS X (NeXT) app bundles become the default. Since it's all mostly open source , or some commercial bits relying on open source frameworks (Gtk+, KDE/Qt) these app bundles would rarely need to bundle any dynamic libraries.
I doubt a mess of symlinks is avoidable for now, though. Linux has a lot of hard-coded legacy paths which programs unfortunately expect for all sorts of things. The ld system is configurable, so adding a /Library as the first stop to look shouldn't be a problem, but a lot of developer tools would need to be made aware. It seems like a hell of a process, but I'm all for it. Now to get millions of developers to see it my way :P
I've disabled Aero for different reasons: It doesn't disable fast enough, causing many old games (I don't play only the latest!) to crash/not launch. Plus I simply don't like the look :)
I dunno if the window manager was more or less perfect in the past (Windows is a game launcher), but the file manager has definitely lost features over time. In Win 7 you don't get a summary of free space in the bar below the file list - you can only see free space by clicking on a drive in My Computer. So newer isn't always better. There are tools on SourceForge to enable the old functionality, of course, but something as basic as knowing the free space on a drive while browsing a directory on it should always be within sight.
800 million users? How many citizens are there in the United States of America? Does this mean I can sign up and start influencing the US? I have some ideas...
I hope it's optional, because some of us write British English rather than American English. This tool won't do us much good if it starts correcting project names, for instance. 3rd party KDE developers would be even worse off ;)
I'm sure you have another disadvantage too: You'll finish a task faster than the youngsters, meaning fewer billable hours for your employer!
My ISP blocks outgoing, non-authenticated SMTP to outside services, and only accepts authenticated connections to their own service on the usual higher-numbered ports. I can still use my own SMTP service, since I use authenticated and encrypted connections on a different port. Spam trojans tend to try using the locally discovered SMTP service on port 25 (similar to how some Linux distros guess settings), which is easily stopped. There might be more cleverly designed botnets out there, of course, but isn't the whole point of some botnets to use as many different mail servers as possible to spew out spam?
Check if you have any aggressive AdBlock settings or similar. I had issues, despite using ClickToPlugin in Safari (which gets the video instead of Flash when available). Turns out trying to filter Flash ads doesn't always work well :)
Awesome prototype anyway. Looks like it took the better part of an evening to create one bowl, though!
OpenCL and Grand Central Dispatch? GCD allocates threads on whichever cores are necessary, while OpenCL gives you computing resources from whatever is available, based on what you accept. Seems fairly seamless and dynamic to me.
Another happy RapidWeaver user here. Hot tip: Buy the Stacks plugin too. All the stacks you can get for it cover nearly anything the average user could want. Video embedding, fancy sliding boxes of content, all sorts of jQuery tricks. If you can think of it, somebody has probably built a cheap or free stack to do it via simple drag, drop and configure.
Wikipedia (yes, I know) points to this 1603 reference to "word-pirates":
http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/yeare.html
400 years if you count that non-pillaging use, 300 or so if you count the US copyright law (second reference in that Wikipedia article on copyright infringement).
The pirates arrested were guilty of piracy in that sense: organised copying and redistribution for profit. Piracy is a fine word. What I'm opposed to is people being labelled pirates for just copying movies to watch, if they're going to use that definition :)
Doesn't look that new to me, either. A friend is hard of hearing and has an extra loudspeaker for phone+doorbell hooked up to the phone. Another device sends signals from the doorbell.
Your idea is callous, evil, despicable, anti-social and probably shows you have some mental issues.
I like it!
Twitter gets me in touch with other developers, and I learn about new software through mentions and retweets. Twitter is just another tool, but I've found it more useful than Facebook and such.
My spam volume is pretty much unchanged. I'll get a handful at the weekend (off to SpamCop it goes), and since registering a business some local companies using foreign servers have been sending me one or two unwanted comical e-mails per week. All my spam is either 419-scams or somebody trying to sell me somewhat legal business products these days. The old pharmaceutical spam doesn't even reach my inbox (thanks, Zimbra filters!).
I do have a very old and easily guessed e-mail account that I don't actually use, and just use to train filters. Whenever I activate it I can enjoy 100-200 new e-mails per day for the filters to chew on. This amount has not changed since the botnet went down, either.
There are USB devices which can alleviate the first issue. If it's a problem on a laptop, it's your own fault for buying a MacBook if you hated it ;)
rEFIt handles the second issue. NeoOffice could have fixed your third issue :)
"NSFW" can be spelled "Penn & Teller". Common knowledge by now :)
Japan isn't a third-world nation, though. Wages there are actually pretty high: http://www.worldsalaries.org/japan.shtml
I would think chip factory workers are in the $2000-$3000 per month range, but I have no data on that. Seems right when you compare all the sectors, though. Japan is about as expensive as a North European country, with wages to match. $20 per month would be unsustainable and illegal ;)
Maybe it's because Japan is in the middle of the world? About as far east and west, and close to China/Taiwan, where they take chips and make motherboards and other things from them. Also centrally located for distribution (and incidentally much cheaper, not adding so much overhead once final products are built).