In all seriousness, these guys were important artists in their day. I'm a big fan of the late 60s counterculture rock scene, and like (and own) a number of their songs. But I'm not sure how many of their retirement-age fans are going to be into streaming music services.
... or be able to hear the difference between an AAC sample and a soundtrack scratched into the surface of a Campbells soup can with a rusty razor. "Sorry sonny, you'll have to speak up, ruined my hearing at too many Grateful Dead gigs".
Thanks for that, saved me the typing. To explain further how the housing thing works, you don't pay property taxes on unfinished houses, so people make sure their houses are never finished. What they'll do is, for example, to build a 2-story house, file plans for a 3-story house and only build the 2 stories they need, leaving some token rebar sticking up into the air or a skeleton of some part of the house. You drive through the countryside and see house after house like this.
The government doesn't help. Generally taxes aren't collected during election years, to encourage voters to re-elect the current government. So every four years you get to take a tax holiday.
Then there are the tax offices themselves. A while back the local tax office decided that their (already generous) government holidays weren't long enough, so they printed up a notice to say that their printers weren't working, hung it in the window, and went home. Come back in a week or two, we may take your tax payments then, if you feel like filing them.
Now, let me tell you what it takes to set up and run a business in Greece.
On second thoughts, I won't. I don't have enough beer available to go through that...
Unfortunately for the Germans the Greeks have the same amount of active soldiers and a lot more military hardware than they do. So if tried that they would just get their butts kicked.
You're seriously saying the Greek army could repel anything? Have you ever been to Greece? The army is just as dysfunctional as almost every other institution there. All you need to do is invade before about 9-10am and the entire armed forces will still be either asleep or gradually getting round to breakfast.
And that's something that's hard to explain to people who haven't lived in Greece, just how badly broken the entire country is. Nothing works. The tap water is so contaminated that you can't do anything more than wash your clothes with it (you'll get sick drinking it). Every toilet in Greece has a little bucket next to it for used toilet paper because the sewage system can't take it (I probably don't need to paint a picture of what that ends up like during a hot summer day). Raising taxes won't have any effect because payment of taxes is optional, and most people choose not to. I could go on and on and on with further examples, but to understand the Greek problem you first need to have lived there and seen how totally broken everything is. It's a lovely country and all and the people are great, but I've never been so glad to leave and get back to somewhere where things just work.
Oh, are they for narcissists? I thought they were courtesy items carried by selfie-takers to allow annoyed bystanders to beat them to death. I have personally beaten at least five selfie-takers to death with their own selfie sticks. If you go to the large fountain in Buda Castle, the one that people like to take selfies in front of, and look for the blood stains on the cobbles, that was me.
So why is this on slashdot exactly? This site is supposed to be about the tech itself, not the financial problems of the people behind it.
Treating this like "Shuttleworth's problem" is losing sight of the big picture. The SA government is desperate to prevent money leaving the country, because if it was easy to get out, a significant chunk of the population would (SA, particularly in the large cities, is not a fun place to live). They may have eliminated the apartheid-era controls, but they've introduced far stricter ones to prevent capital flight from the country. Shuttleworth's case is just one of the more visible ones, there are huge numbers of people who would leave if they could get their money out.
I've actually got a Gen 1, bought long after the Gen 2 came out, specifically because the keyboard is sane. It is a *really* nice laptop, as long as you don't make the mistake of getting a Gen 2.
The article starts with a picture that suggests it replaces the Esc key. (I can hear your screams of shock and pain from here.)
You're right. Initially I thought it was up in the uselss-wank row of keys that vendors like to put above the function keys, but it does appear to be replacing the Esc key. Assuming they then follow the Lenovo Carbon Gen 2 model of keyboard braindamage which is... well it's hard to describe in words, see for yourself (yes, someone actually did that on purpose, which is why you can buy Gen 2's on eBay for much less than the older Gen 1's), there'll be a quick subsequent release of a Model n+1 that undoes it all again.
nobody wants a fullscreen IM app. that's the problem.
Well, except tablet users...
You've asked all of them, I suppose?
I use Skype on a tablet, and I want it as a background app so I can chat while I'm doing other stuff. I don't want it taking over the entire screen, or doing anything else more significant than a notification area icon to tell me it's still running.
Without America, TPP is dead, but there will likely be a new free trade agreement to replace it, anchored on China, rather than America.
That's because China sees a trade agreement as being about trade and making money, not a means of furthering the global agendas of whichever megacorporations pay the people writing it the most money. I'm from a country that has a free trade agreement with China, negotiated openly and available for anyone to check (heck, there's even a web site set up to tell you all you need to know), that basically says "you sell us your stuff, we sell you ours, the rest is up to you". That's a free trade agreement, not the stuff US corporations are trying to force on the world.
I think it's a sign that there's something seriously wrong when people are requesting a regular release cadence to fix all the security holes in the software that's supposed to be protecting them from security problems...
Firefox users point out that this isnâ(TM)t very user friendly, and is very unlike Mozilla.
Actually it's very like Mozilla, at least the Mozilla from the last five years or so. You sit there, you take what we give you, and you LIKE IT, dammit!
To be fair, a retrofit to fuel cells would be relatively simple, since everything on the boat runs on electricity anyway.
Well yeah, that one's simple, but what about the unicorn farts mentioned by a previous poster? Just the torque converters for that alone would be enormous, not to mention the extra whangle drums and sliding paff gongbudgers.
I've seen the exact opposite, most openers are built using shitty Princeton 2262s, which sounds like what this guy hacked. Oh, and if you've been sold a fancy "rolling-code remote", open it up and look at the hardware, if it says 2262 on the chip (or one of the many derivatives) then you've been had (many so-called rolling-code remotes aren't, the vendors just claim they are).
In practice it's even worse than the article points out, the switches are tri-state not binary but most vendors of remotes forget that so you go from 3^n to 2^n, and then they only use 8 of the 12 pins you can toggle on because they're on one side of the chip and they forget there's more around the other side. So you go from 3^12 to 2^8 combinations, meaning you'll hit the right one after 128 tries on average. The receivers have no rate-limiting, so you can run them far faster than the vendor specifies and scan the code space in seconds. The novel thing in this case is the use of de Bruijn sequences, and the fact that he scans the entire code space in the same time a standard scanner takes for the (admittedly far too common) badly-designed ones.
They're tanking search results for users ON A PC OR LAPTOP due to your mobile-friendliness.
Hey, forcing a mobile-phone interface onto an inherently desktop system worked so well for Microsoft in Windows 8 that I guess Google had to give it a go too,
More seriously, this is beyond braindamaged. Our product is mainframe middleware. Exactly zero percent of our users access our site from a phone or tablet. However, Google now wants us to optimise it for a platform that none of our users will ever use, just because, hey, Google says so. Cretins.
I'll say. Skype fairly consistently blue-screens my laptops after about an hour of voice chat with it, first the whole system freezes, then after about half a minute it bluescreens, and that's on two different laptops. That's pretty impressive amount of fail for a fscking Internet phone app.
Their current plan is to wait charged particles to affect electronics so that it forces a reboot.
That's a pretty desperate plan, I realise that single event upsets in space are a non-uncommon event, but man, this is really last-resort stuff, the terrestrial equivalent of which would be "there may be a lightning strike in the vicinity which would glitch the electronics and cause a reboot". Sure, or there may not, in which case you're screwed. As the OP said, how was this not caught in testing?
Cities like Denver, Munich, Tokyo and Belfast have known about this for years. By cleverly putting miles and miles of landscape between the airport and the city, sound levels over the city have been significantly reduced. When it comes to cutting down on noise, nothing beats huge... tracts of land.
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Could have been far worse...
In all seriousness, these guys were important artists in their day. I'm a big fan of the late 60s counterculture rock scene, and like (and own) a number of their songs. But I'm not sure how many of their retirement-age fans are going to be into streaming music services.
... or be able to hear the difference between an AAC sample and a soundtrack scratched into the surface of a Campbells soup can with a rusty razor. "Sorry sonny, you'll have to speak up, ruined my hearing at too many Grateful Dead gigs".
Thanks for that, saved me the typing. To explain further how the housing thing works, you don't pay property taxes on unfinished houses, so people make sure their houses are never finished. What they'll do is, for example, to build a 2-story house, file plans for a 3-story house and only build the 2 stories they need, leaving some token rebar sticking up into the air or a skeleton of some part of the house. You drive through the countryside and see house after house like this.
The government doesn't help. Generally taxes aren't collected during election years, to encourage voters to re-elect the current government. So every four years you get to take a tax holiday.
Then there are the tax offices themselves. A while back the local tax office decided that their (already generous) government holidays weren't long enough, so they printed up a notice to say that their printers weren't working, hung it in the window, and went home. Come back in a week or two, we may take your tax payments then, if you feel like filing them.
Now, let me tell you what it takes to set up and run a business in Greece.
On second thoughts, I won't. I don't have enough beer available to go through that...
Unfortunately for the Germans the Greeks have the same amount of active soldiers and a lot more military hardware than they do. So if tried that they would just get their butts kicked.
You're seriously saying the Greek army could repel anything? Have you ever been to Greece? The army is just as dysfunctional as almost every other institution there. All you need to do is invade before about 9-10am and the entire armed forces will still be either asleep or gradually getting round to breakfast.
And that's something that's hard to explain to people who haven't lived in Greece, just how badly broken the entire country is. Nothing works. The tap water is so contaminated that you can't do anything more than wash your clothes with it (you'll get sick drinking it). Every toilet in Greece has a little bucket next to it for used toilet paper because the sewage system can't take it (I probably don't need to paint a picture of what that ends up like during a hot summer day). Raising taxes won't have any effect because payment of taxes is optional, and most people choose not to. I could go on and on and on with further examples, but to understand the Greek problem you first need to have lived there and seen how totally broken everything is. It's a lovely country and all and the people are great, but I've never been so glad to leave and get back to somewhere where things just work.
Oh, are they for narcissists? I thought they were courtesy items carried by selfie-takers to allow annoyed bystanders to beat them to death. I have personally beaten at least five selfie-takers to death with their own selfie sticks. If you go to the large fountain in Buda Castle, the one that people like to take selfies in front of, and look for the blood stains on the cobbles, that was me.
The ITU have spoken, 20G is the new 5G,
1. Password written on a sticky note placed under the keyboard.
2. Password on a strip of paper taped over on the palm-rest of a laptop.
Perfectly good way to manage your passwords when you're in Burnt Scrotum, New Mexico and your opponent is in Pudong, China.
So why is this on slashdot exactly? This site is supposed to be about the tech itself, not the financial problems of the people behind it.
Treating this like "Shuttleworth's problem" is losing sight of the big picture. The SA government is desperate to prevent money leaving the country, because if it was easy to get out, a significant chunk of the population would (SA, particularly in the large cities, is not a fun place to live). They may have eliminated the apartheid-era controls, but they've introduced far stricter ones to prevent capital flight from the country. Shuttleworth's case is just one of the more visible ones, there are huge numbers of people who would leave if they could get their money out.
You should try my Appchain app. It apps all your apps into one app. It even apps its own app into the app.
Yeah, but does it tech the tech? Everyone knows you need to be able to tech the tech to the warp drive to fix serious problems.
I've actually got a Gen 1, bought long after the Gen 2 came out, specifically because the keyboard is sane. It is a *really* nice laptop, as long as you don't make the mistake of getting a Gen 2.
The article starts with a picture that suggests it replaces the Esc key. (I can hear your screams of shock and pain from here.)
You're right. Initially I thought it was up in the uselss-wank row of keys that vendors like to put above the function keys, but it does appear to be replacing the Esc key. Assuming they then follow the Lenovo Carbon Gen 2 model of keyboard braindamage which is... well it's hard to describe in words, see for yourself (yes, someone actually did that on purpose, which is why you can buy Gen 2's on eBay for much less than the older Gen 1's), there'll be a quick subsequent release of a Model n+1 that undoes it all again.
nobody wants a fullscreen IM app. that's the problem.
Well, except tablet users...
You've asked all of them, I suppose?
I use Skype on a tablet, and I want it as a background app so I can chat while I'm doing other stuff. I don't want it taking over the entire screen, or doing anything else more significant than a notification area icon to tell me it's still running.
Without America, TPP is dead, but there will likely be a new free trade agreement to replace it, anchored on China, rather than America.
That's because China sees a trade agreement as being about trade and making money, not a means of furthering the global agendas of whichever megacorporations pay the people writing it the most money. I'm from a country that has a free trade agreement with China, negotiated openly and available for anyone to check (heck, there's even a web site set up to tell you all you need to know), that basically says "you sell us your stuff, we sell you ours, the rest is up to you". That's a free trade agreement, not the stuff US corporations are trying to force on the world.
I think it's a sign that there's something seriously wrong when people are requesting a regular release cadence to fix all the security holes in the software that's supposed to be protecting them from security problems...
ObXKCD.
They have a wind farm in Wellington. It's called West Wind.
That's Wellington's secondary wind farm. The primary wind farm is called The Beehive.
Seems they should track down the source of any possible hardware infections before replacing all hardware.
"No! Shut them *all* down, hurry! Listen to them, they're dying R2! Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough, it's all my fault!"
From TFA:
Firefox users point out that this isnâ(TM)t very user friendly, and is very unlike Mozilla.
Actually it's very like Mozilla, at least the Mozilla from the last five years or so. You sit there, you take what we give you, and you LIKE IT, dammit!
To be fair, a retrofit to fuel cells would be relatively simple, since everything on the boat runs on electricity anyway.
Well yeah, that one's simple, but what about the unicorn farts mentioned by a previous poster? Just the torque converters for that alone would be enormous, not to mention the extra whangle drums and sliding paff gongbudgers.
"How could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?"
Nowadays we do it with drones and remote cameras.
I've seen the exact opposite, most openers are built using shitty Princeton 2262s, which sounds like what this guy hacked. Oh, and if you've been sold a fancy "rolling-code remote", open it up and look at the hardware, if it says 2262 on the chip (or one of the many derivatives) then you've been had (many so-called rolling-code remotes aren't, the vendors just claim they are).
In practice it's even worse than the article points out, the switches are tri-state not binary but most vendors of remotes forget that so you go from 3^n to 2^n, and then they only use 8 of the 12 pins you can toggle on because they're on one side of the chip and they forget there's more around the other side. So you go from 3^12 to 2^8 combinations, meaning you'll hit the right one after 128 tries on average. The receivers have no rate-limiting, so you can run them far faster than the vendor specifies and scan the code space in seconds. The novel thing in this case is the use of de Bruijn sequences, and the fact that he scans the entire code space in the same time a standard scanner takes for the (admittedly far too common) badly-designed ones.
They're tanking search results for users ON A PC OR LAPTOP due to your mobile-friendliness.
Hey, forcing a mobile-phone interface onto an inherently desktop system worked so well for Microsoft in Windows 8 that I guess Google had to give it a go too,
More seriously, this is beyond braindamaged. Our product is mainframe middleware. Exactly zero percent of our users access our site from a phone or tablet. However, Google now wants us to optimise it for a platform that none of our users will ever use, just because, hey, Google says so. Cretins.
Across two totally different (Lenovo and Toshiba) laptops, and that's only ever triggered by Skype and nothing else? Sounds a bit unlikely...
I'll say. Skype fairly consistently blue-screens my laptops after about an hour of voice chat with it, first the whole system freezes, then after about half a minute it bluescreens, and that's on two different laptops. That's pretty impressive amount of fail for a fscking Internet phone app.
Their current plan is to wait charged particles to affect electronics so that it forces a reboot.
That's a pretty desperate plan, I realise that single event upsets in space are a non-uncommon event, but man, this is really last-resort stuff, the terrestrial equivalent of which would be "there may be a lightning strike in the vicinity which would glitch the electronics and cause a reboot". Sure, or there may not, in which case you're screwed. As the OP said, how was this not caught in testing?
Cities like Denver, Munich, Tokyo and Belfast have known about this for years. By cleverly putting miles and miles of landscape between the airport and the city, sound levels over the city have been significantly reduced. When it comes to cutting down on noise, nothing beats huge... tracts of land.