Is it just me, or is anyone else a little weary of the whole "remote control from the web" - install an app from the web, push a message from the internet to make it open a link/app automatically features? Yes, I know, theoretically nobody but the owner of the phone should be able to do that, but I'm still a little uncomfortable (and excited at the same time) about the so called "intent" feature.
As long as they're rewarding potential and intent - why not give a physics nobel for my kid? He is very smart for his age and all his teachers say "the kid has a lot of potential". Oh yeah, it will motivate him too.
Seriously, I used to be pissed that Mahatma Gandhi was never given a Nobel, but looking at a lof of winners after him (Arafat, Kissinger, and now Obama to name a few), it's probably an insult to Gandhi to be grouped with this bunch.
I migrated from My Y! to iGoogle (mainly for my portfolio - Yahoo! Finance sucks when it comes to Indian stocks), but the iGoogle page looks like crap. For all its weaknesses, My Yahoo! was good in appearance. I looked at NetVibes and PageFlakes, but neither of them seem to have any good stock portfolio tracker that can track India exchanges. Otherwise, I'd like to switch to one of them.
Yes, spam is damn annoying and the guys deserve imprisonment, and confiscation of every penny they earned through spam. But to compare fraudulent execs favorably to these, is a little overboard. Cheating you out of your money is lesser crime than spam?!?!
a very fast find-in-files: this may seem unsexy, but it's the number one thing i use VS for. it's so much easier to search for a symbol than navigate a source hierarchy. VS must be building indexes or something, because it takes just a second or so to grep a largish codebase for a symbol while actual grep takes maybe ten or fifteen.
ever heard of a tool called "cscope"? It integrates nicely with vim and does the same thing you're talking about. And more.
memory breakpoints: being able to break when a particular byte of memory is changed is pretty cool. i'm not sure if VS express has it. there is a hefty performance overhead tho, so you really only want to use it when smaller guns haven't panned out, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors.
gdb (the one debugger I know) does it too. One of my biggest pains with using VS is the lack of power (in other words, scripting support) for the editor and the debugger. I don't think the default editor of VS supports regex substitution even today, which is one of the most basic features of an editor. Similarly, it's very easy to fire gdb up and let a program run and collect some stuff while the program runs (breakpoints, and commands). To do it in VS editor is a pain, AFAIK. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/26/2249208/What-Free-IDE-Do-You-Use?art_pos=1#
Yeah right! Every time some vi comes up, people start holding NoScript as a panacea. I use NoScript so I am aware of its advantages. But it's not a cure-all. There are so many sites (twitter in this case) which simply do not work without Javascript being enabled. So most of the NoScript users who use twitter through a browser will have Javascript enabled - by white listing it in NoScript. So, no sorry, NoScript is not a protection against this one.
I think one thing people keep forgetting is that, the $33 is a misleading figure. Only half of the amount was in cash, and the rest in MS stock. Given the complexity of the deal involved, and the monopoly concerns (MS and Y! are big players in instant messaging and mail), the deal would have been AT LEAST a year to happen. And look at what MS price is a year after that (nearly down by 50%), so the effective price for the shareholders would have been $24-25, and not $33.
This is of course, assuming that the deal would not have changed the price of MS at all, but I think it would have negatively impacted MS because they would not be cash-rich any more, and the integration issues of such a large size are going to bog down any company.
It was filed on 21st of this month and it's on/. already? Is someone closely watching the patent filings, or did some insider alert slashdot? Good thing either way. May be all this "publicity" will make IBM retract the application.
Same thing with passwords. When I type my password, I just let my fingers type it almost mechanically. If I "think" about what character to type, I get confused and sometimes even had my account locked up for "too many wrong attempts".
Sure you can, if you don't mind a few casualties. The Russians seem to have a liberal policy about random deaths in terrorism matters.
And the US sure minds "a few" casualties, eh? Ever looked at the number of civilian casualties in Iraq war? A war which was invoked using 9/11 and terrorists as one of the excuses.
DMCA should not cover someone deleting their files or registry keys. But his excuse that "All I did was erase files or registry keys." sounds like a false pretense. He did it for the purpose of printing duplicate coupons, and that is fraud.
Where, WHERE do you live? I am immediately packing all my things and moving to your neighborhood. Monopoly is the name of the game everywhere I go. I thought it was like that everywhere. Utopia, I guess.
3) Convince your customers they need to RIP one movie, download another, play their mp3's and run Oblivion with 200fps simultaneously
Nice troll, but almost every computer now runs more than one process. The instant messages, email applications, browser at the very least. And not to mention, anti-virus. So I do think dual core chips are useful.
All of which is utterly laughable given the way India, Pakistan and now North Korea and Iran have stayed in the NPT long enough to build up a domestic nuclear industry and then quit just before detonating their first bomb.
FYI - India never signed the NPT, nor did Pakistan. NPT is a discriminatory agreement by any standard. There were no commitments from the nuclear nations about disarmament but bound the non-nuclear members to commitments that they would always be unarmed.
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Second that. I hope more and more people voice their support for full Unicode support on android forums here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925 so that G bumps the priority of this issue.
Is it just me, or is anyone else a little weary of the whole "remote control from the web" - install an app from the web, push a message from the internet to make it open a link/app automatically features? Yes, I know, theoretically nobody but the owner of the phone should be able to do that, but I'm still a little uncomfortable (and excited at the same time) about the so called "intent" feature.
They stopped selling online. They are going to sell them through physical stores.
You, sir, just made my day! Either you know my ex-manager or you're him!
PS: Mods, go ahead and mod this redundant. I really needed to say it.
You're confusing median with mean... :-)
As long as they're rewarding potential and intent - why not give a physics nobel for my kid? He is very smart for his age and all his teachers say "the kid has a lot of potential". Oh yeah, it will motivate him too.
Seriously, I used to be pissed that Mahatma Gandhi was never given a Nobel, but looking at a lof of winners after him (Arafat, Kissinger, and now Obama to name a few), it's probably an insult to Gandhi to be grouped with this bunch.
Have you seen this site? http://www.shelfari.com/
The look is very similar. I wonder who took from whom?
Yeah, may be the amount spent on this campaign covered it already ;-)
I migrated from My Y! to iGoogle (mainly for my portfolio - Yahoo! Finance sucks when it comes to Indian stocks), but the iGoogle page looks like crap. For all its weaknesses, My Yahoo! was good in appearance. I looked at NetVibes and PageFlakes, but neither of them seem to have any good stock portfolio tracker that can track India exchanges. Otherwise, I'd like to switch to one of them.
A little perspective please...
Yes, spam is damn annoying and the guys deserve imprisonment, and confiscation of every penny they earned through spam. But to compare fraudulent execs favorably to these, is a little overboard. Cheating you out of your money is lesser crime than spam?!?!
a very fast find-in-files: this may seem unsexy, but it's the number one thing i use VS for. it's so much easier to search for a symbol than navigate a source hierarchy. VS must be building indexes or something, because it takes just a second or so to grep a largish codebase for a symbol while actual grep takes maybe ten or fifteen.
ever heard of a tool called "cscope"? It integrates nicely with vim and does the same thing you're talking about. And more.
memory breakpoints: being able to break when a particular byte of memory is changed is pretty cool. i'm not sure if VS express has it. there is a hefty performance overhead tho, so you really only want to use it when smaller guns haven't panned out, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors.
gdb (the one debugger I know) does it too. One of my biggest pains with using VS is the lack of power (in other words, scripting support) for the editor and the debugger. I don't think the default editor of VS supports regex substitution even today, which is one of the most basic features of an editor. Similarly, it's very easy to fire gdb up and let a program run and collect some stuff while the program runs (breakpoints, and commands). To do it in VS editor is a pain, AFAIK.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/26/2249208/What-Free-IDE-Do-You-Use?art_pos=1#
Yeah right! Every time some vi comes up, people start holding NoScript as a panacea. I use NoScript so I am aware of its advantages. But it's not a cure-all. There are so many sites (twitter in this case) which simply do not work without Javascript being enabled. So most of the NoScript users who use twitter through a browser will have Javascript enabled - by white listing it in NoScript. So, no sorry, NoScript is not a protection against this one.
I think one thing people keep forgetting is that, the $33 is a misleading figure. Only half of the amount was in cash, and the rest in MS stock. Given the complexity of the deal involved, and the monopoly concerns (MS and Y! are big players in instant messaging and mail), the deal would have been AT LEAST a year to happen. And look at what MS price is a year after that (nearly down by 50%), so the effective price for the shareholders would have been $24-25, and not $33.
This is of course, assuming that the deal would not have changed the price of MS at all, but I think it would have negatively impacted MS because they would not be cash-rich any more, and the integration issues of such a large size are going to bog down any company.
You should've enrolled into a spelling course instead. Would have proved more useful.
I modded it Troll by mistake. So I'm posting to nullify. Feel free to mod this post off-topic
It was filed on 21st of this month and it's on /. already? Is someone closely watching the patent filings, or did some insider alert slashdot? Good thing either way. May be all this "publicity" will make IBM retract the application.
Same thing with passwords. When I type my password, I just let my fingers type it almost mechanically. If I "think" about what character to type, I get confused and sometimes even had my account locked up for "too many wrong attempts".
Reminds me of a quote - "Statistics are like humans. Torture them enough and you can make them admit anything you want".
You mean something like this http://search.yahoo.com/ ?
Sure you can, if you don't mind a few casualties. The Russians seem to have a liberal policy about random deaths in terrorism matters.
And the US sure minds "a few" casualties, eh? Ever looked at the number of civilian casualties in Iraq war? A war which was invoked using 9/11 and terrorists as one of the excuses.
DMCA should not cover someone deleting their files or registry keys. But his excuse that "All I did was erase files or registry keys." sounds like a false pretense. He did it for the purpose of printing duplicate coupons, and that is fraud.
3) Convince your customers they need to RIP one movie, download another, play their mp3's and run Oblivion with 200fps simultaneously
Nice troll, but almost every computer now runs more than one process. The instant messages, email applications, browser at the very least. And not to mention, anti-virus. So I do think dual core chips are useful.
All of which is utterly laughable given the way India, Pakistan and now North Korea and Iran have stayed in the NPT long enough to build up a domestic nuclear industry and then quit just before detonating their first bomb.
FYI - India never signed the NPT, nor did Pakistan. NPT is a discriminatory agreement by any standard. There were no commitments from the nuclear nations about disarmament but bound the non-nuclear members to commitments that they would always be unarmed.
Just as every villian dreams of world domination, I guess every government keeps dreaming of controlling the internet.