People don't pick Amazon or Overstock to save on sales tax... they do it because the prices are cheaper.
Not always true. Stores like Fry's match online prices. People pick Amazon because it's more convenient, there's a wider choice of products, or because they don't (didn't) have to pay sales tax.
You picked out cables as an example. Best Buy is notorious for selling absurdly overpriced "premium" cables with gold-plated connectors or some other stupid gimmick that only idiots would spend money on. But if you pick identical products, there's not that much of a price difference.
Going to an MMA gym and belittling the teachers' dick size is also brave, but foolish. I don't think the OP implied any sort of nobility or respectability in this endeavor.
Sounds similar to those projects like Al Sutton's AndAppStore (now merged with soc.io), which have been around for almost as long as Android.
The only difference I see is the approval process, which will make it harder for Koush to explain that he wasn't aware of the nature of an app once a C&D flies in. And given that apps are typically banned because they infringe copyrights or other monetary interests of big corporations, I'd say that C&Ds are inevitable.
"Has created" != "has been published on the store". Particularly because the most newsworthy part of the article is that it took longer than normal to get the app approved, so a search in the apps won't tell you whether or not Google has *created* an iPad-specific version that is currently going through the approval process.
It really makes me wonder, though, what would they get out of saying stuff like that if it weren't true?
Have you ever watched Yahtzee's video game reviews? He's mostly focusing on bad things (and greatly exaggerates them). People love a good trashing! He even mentioned in one of his reviews that he got angry mails when he was too nice on a game. It's good entertainment, and that's what Top Gear focuses on.
Binary search would be fine, except that "The server will email the administrator a PDF copy of the document in question if a user attempts to do so". It might look a tad bit suspicious if the user keeps trying to make copies of the same document with different parts blacked out.
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Let's see... HTC Dream and HTC Magic, for one. And there are decent custom ROMs available too, like http://www.cyanogenmod.com./ And it's perfectly accepted by Google and HTC, unlike Apple, who constantly wet their pants about the evil jailbreakers.
Well, that's the whole point of this competition - find out what each user believes to be "GOOD", which is highly subjective. People who enjoy, say, Epic Movie, White Chicks, and hate movies like Insomnia are likely to dislike Memento as well.
There is no objective "good" or "bad" for a movie - you can average the ratings given by all users, but according to IMDb, Insomnia (US version) has 7.2, and Die Hard 4 has 7.6 - which one would you prefer? (To me, Insomnia is clearly the "better" movie, but my opinion is different from that of other people... which is why the idea is to find people who have the same taste as I do and see what they consider "good").
Well, what do you suggest we should do? Boycott them? It's not like 95% of the people care, they just want cool phones to talk and send text messages. Even if you were to successfully boycott a company, who would you switch to? You might think that T-Mobile, being a European company, adheres to European "standards". But why would they? They'd shoot themselves in their own feet since they risk losing revenue.
Once 95% of the population use PDA phones and make use of OBEX and installs an assload of downloaded applications on their phones, THEN it might make a difference if one carrier didn't fuckify their phones.
I take it no-one here has read Red Dwarf? Some time in the future, a smart advertising company comes up with the idea of creating a bunch of supernovae to spell out a message on the sky.
Awesome book by the way. Blows the lame TV show away.
When I submit my daily dose of spam to Spamcop, I can see that 90% of all websites referred to by spam mails are hosted in China and Brazil, and I don't think either country will do a similar move anytime soon.
It is already common practice for spammers to use bullet-proof hosts (which is even mentioned in TFA).
So I don't think this move will change anything as far as spam goes, but the potential for abuse (see some of the previous comments) will increase, given that most sites hosted by UK ISPS are legitimate.
The VIN is not a random number. Many of the characters indicate something, like make, model, origin, etc.
This is similar to IPv4 - it's a 32bit number, but you cannot say that "we now have 4 billion unique IDs that may be randomly assigned".
Just for example, if the first character being an 'A' indicated "DeLorean", it means that 1/26 of ALL possible VINs are reserved for DeLoreans, regardless whether they only make 0.000001% of all cars ever produced.
This tinfoil crap is slowly getting on my nerves. Doesn't anyone see the purpose of a VIN?
Whenever I buy a car, the first thing I get is the VIN so I can check the car's background. This is invaluable. A central registry about cars has many advantages.
Actually, Cerulean charge for the use of their software, not the servers. Cerulean wrote the entire program from scratch, so they have every right to charge for it.
It is Yahoo's decision to allow people to connect to the servers and use them without paying them first.
Yep, lighting is one of the most important things to consider IMHO. I regularly had headache after long hours in an office with overhead lighting during winter times.
I prefer indirect lighting that can be dimmed. It has to be bright enough (too dark hurts the eyes).
The same credibility as three cops testifying that they saw your license plate (not your car, not you) in Cleveland (meaning the license plate attached to a car in motion). Now if you have a good story explaining how your license plate or your car ended up in Cleveland while you were kicking it in Oregon, you should be home free.
What about LoJack? FasTrak? These are things we even voluntarily install in our cars so "others" can locate our car at any point in time (well, not necessarily with FasTrak, but there was a discussion about that on Slashdot a long time ago).
If there is an APB on your car, cops will find you sooner or later if you're on the road by your license plate. RFIDs just help them do their job faster and more efficiently.
I can't wait to get an RFID tag if that means I get LoJack sponsored by the state.
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Bull. Flat out bull.
People don't pick Amazon or Overstock to save on sales tax... they do it because the prices are cheaper.
Not always true. Stores like Fry's match online prices. People pick Amazon because it's more convenient, there's a wider choice of products, or because they don't (didn't) have to pay sales tax.
You picked out cables as an example. Best Buy is notorious for selling absurdly overpriced "premium" cables with gold-plated connectors or some other stupid gimmick that only idiots would spend money on. But if you pick identical products, there's not that much of a price difference.
Going to an MMA gym and belittling the teachers' dick size is also brave, but foolish. I don't think the OP implied any sort of nobility or respectability in this endeavor.
Sounds similar to those projects like Al Sutton's AndAppStore (now merged with soc.io), which have been around for almost as long as Android.
The only difference I see is the approval process, which will make it harder for Koush to explain that he wasn't aware of the nature of an app once a C&D flies in. And given that apps are typically banned because they infringe copyrights or other monetary interests of big corporations, I'd say that C&Ds are inevitable.
Quoting JBQ's post from today: "yes, that means ICS will be coming to AOSP".
https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/HB5qQHeNKBQ
"Has created" != "has been published on the store". Particularly because the most newsworthy part of the article is that it took longer than normal to get the app approved, so a search in the apps won't tell you whether or not Google has *created* an iPad-specific version that is currently going through the approval process.
It really makes me wonder, though, what would they get out of saying stuff like that if it weren't true?
Have you ever watched Yahtzee's video game reviews? He's mostly focusing on bad things (and greatly exaggerates them). People love a good trashing! He even mentioned in one of his reviews that he got angry mails when he was too nice on a game. It's good entertainment, and that's what Top Gear focuses on.
Binary search would be fine, except that "The server will email the administrator a PDF copy of the document in question if a user attempts to do so". It might look a tad bit suspicious if the user keeps trying to make copies of the same document with different parts blacked out.
Let's see... HTC Dream and HTC Magic, for one. And there are decent custom ROMs available too, like http://www.cyanogenmod.com./ And it's perfectly accepted by Google and HTC, unlike Apple, who constantly wet their pants about the evil jailbreakers.
Well, or any other mobile phone OS, obviously. However, there is KeePass based on 1.0 for Android (as you can see on the KeePass website itself, and here: http://www.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=keepass). Also, there's OI Safe for Android, which does the same thing: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-openintents-safe-qwq.aspx
Well, that's the whole point of this competition - find out what each user believes to be "GOOD", which is highly subjective. People who enjoy, say, Epic Movie, White Chicks, and hate movies like Insomnia are likely to dislike Memento as well.
There is no objective "good" or "bad" for a movie - you can average the ratings given by all users, but according to IMDb, Insomnia (US version) has 7.2, and Die Hard 4 has 7.6 - which one would you prefer? (To me, Insomnia is clearly the "better" movie, but my opinion is different from that of other people... which is why the idea is to find people who have the same taste as I do and see what they consider "good").
Like I said, you're not doing it right. My app has 15 activities and one service that runs at boot-time as well as on demand.
Parcelable is rarely necessary to transfer data within an app. In fact, it'd be a performance hog to do that.
You're not doing it right. There is barely ever a need to implement Parcelable if you're trying to pass data across your own app.
Well, what do you suggest we should do? Boycott them? It's not like 95% of the people care, they just want cool phones to talk and send text messages. Even if you were to successfully boycott a company, who would you switch to? You might think that T-Mobile, being a European company, adheres to European "standards". But why would they? They'd shoot themselves in their own feet since they risk losing revenue.
Once 95% of the population use PDA phones and make use of OBEX and installs an assload of downloaded applications on their phones, THEN it might make a difference if one carrier didn't fuckify their phones.
The Editing Room has been around since 1997, and it rules. Some of the scripts are simply awesome and hilarious.
I take it no-one here has read Red Dwarf? Some time in the future, a smart advertising company comes up with the idea of creating a bunch of supernovae to spell out a message on the sky.
Awesome book by the way. Blows the lame TV show away.
When I submit my daily dose of spam to Spamcop, I can see that 90% of all websites referred to by spam mails are hosted in China and Brazil, and I don't think either country will do a similar move anytime soon.
It is already common practice for spammers to use bullet-proof hosts (which is even mentioned in TFA).
So I don't think this move will change anything as far as spam goes, but the potential for abuse (see some of the previous comments) will increase, given that most sites hosted by UK ISPS are legitimate.
The VIN is not a random number. Many of the characters indicate something, like make, model, origin, etc.
This is similar to IPv4 - it's a 32bit number, but you cannot say that "we now have 4 billion unique IDs that may be randomly assigned".
Just for example, if the first character being an 'A' indicated "DeLorean", it means that 1/26 of ALL possible VINs are reserved for DeLoreans, regardless whether they only make 0.000001% of all cars ever produced.
This tinfoil crap is slowly getting on my nerves. Doesn't anyone see the purpose of a VIN?
Whenever I buy a car, the first thing I get is the VIN so I can check the car's background. This is invaluable. A central registry about cars has many advantages.
Actually, Cerulean charge for the use of their software, not the servers. Cerulean wrote the entire program from scratch, so they have every right to charge for it.
It is Yahoo's decision to allow people to connect to the servers and use them without paying them first.
Or, more precisely, you'd rather program and build the robot INDOORS than mowing the lawn OUTDOORS? With those "short summers" you have?
Yep, lighting is one of the most important things to consider IMHO. I regularly had headache after long hours in an office with overhead lighting during winter times.
I prefer indirect lighting that can be dimmed. It has to be bright enough (too dark hurts the eyes).
I don't see the problem. If you drive I-5 North in San Onofre, California, you'll pass a border patrol checkpoint that OCRs every license plate.
How about somebody just standing on a bridge and writing down the license plate number of every car passing by?
This is not "searching" your car, it's simply another way of reading the information your license plate gives.
Also, a lot of you seem to have a wrong impression of how far 300ft is.
The same credibility as three cops testifying that they saw your license plate (not your car, not you) in Cleveland (meaning the license plate attached to a car in motion). Now if you have a good story explaining how your license plate or your car ended up in Cleveland while you were kicking it in Oregon, you should be home free.
What about LoJack? FasTrak? These are things we even voluntarily install in our cars so "others" can locate our car at any point in time (well, not necessarily with FasTrak, but there was a discussion about that on Slashdot a long time ago).
If there is an APB on your car, cops will find you sooner or later if you're on the road by your license plate. RFIDs just help them do their job faster and more efficiently.
I can't wait to get an RFID tag if that means I get LoJack sponsored by the state.
To save your server from that fate, I'll pseudo-transcribe the fax:
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That was harder than it looks. The layout of that page is horrible.