In my experience, iOS' "Low Power Mode" works extremely well in terms of extending a phone's remaining battery life. Of course, one of the things it does is stop the background execution of most apps.
I don't believe it's that cut and dried. I've had too many experiences where I get a warning, long after I stopped actively using a particular app, along the lines of "Waze still using your location in the background - do you want to let it continue?"
I expect that Gruber's description accurately depicts how it is supposed to work - and how it does work most of the time. And perhaps there indeed are people who "force quit" iOS apps on a regular basis for no good reason. But the few times I've seen someone do it, it's because they're trying to deal with some issue they think they're seeing right then and there.
The chat bot really only needs to handle a few phrases...
"What a day, I'm beat" "Turn the game on" "When's dinner?" "Bring me another beer!" and "If you don't start behaving right now, I'm turning this car around!"
But when I watched the video, I kept seeing places where the lip/mouth movements did not jibe with what was being said. As is, it's not going to convince anyone who's paying attention.
Of course, nowadays almost everyone is staring at their cell phone most of the time... so perhaps the bar is lower than I expect.
Puerto Rico is a United States territory - so yes, Ponce is an American city.
Here's the relevant section of that Wikipedia page you linked to:
"Ponce is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and the European discoverer of Florida."
honestly if you want people to use complex passwords you have to show them the freaking string as they type ASDq3fwtevybtynsR&56@%^25tqer7gRT*Ubt&tferyweF for their password
those scans are so prevalent because they are regularly successful.
Those scans are so prevalent because they're trivially easy to implement - regardless of the success percentage. That percentage can be very low and still be worthwhile.
While I completely disagree with the guy, I seriously do appreciate that he posted his opinion under his Slashdot username. There's way too much anonymous shilling (from all sides) happening on Slashdot nowadays.
Come on, it was all explained very clearly in the show. Quoting here from season two's intro:
"To escape from his enemies... Rolin Hand did away with the real Commander Koenig, then engineered the "accidental" explosion which tore Earth's moon out of orbit and hurled it into outer space."
I've seen them twice - two different nights, as we drove the Al-Can 30-odd years ago.
The first time, I woke up to this weird multicolored glow shining through the top of our tent in far northern BC. It freaked me out at first, even knowing intellectually what it was... but they were amazing.
A couple nights later we were in the southern Yukon, and there was a more tepid, mostly white display for maybe five minutes.
I keep hoping I'll see them again, but so far I've had no luck (although the Skunk Bay weather cam recorded them a few days back). The Pacific Northwest is probably not the best place for Aurora watching.
"Martin Landau began his career playing a gunfighter in the third episode of The Twilight Zone,..."
"... Landau began his career playing a sadistic henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest"
To be fair, both of these were in 1959. And North By Northwest is probably my favorite movie, so I may be a bit biased here, but - that role may have been just a tad higher profile than a gunfighter who's casting on a fledgling TV show doesn't even rate a mention in the Wikipedia synopsis of the episode.
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In my experience, iOS' "Low Power Mode" works extremely well in terms of extending a phone's remaining battery life. Of course, one of the things it does is stop the background execution of most apps.
I don't believe it's that cut and dried. I've had too many experiences where I get a warning, long after I stopped actively using a particular app, along the lines of "Waze still using your location in the background - do you want to let it continue?"
I expect that Gruber's description accurately depicts how it is supposed to work - and how it does work most of the time. And perhaps there indeed are people who "force quit" iOS apps on a regular basis for no good reason. But the few times I've seen someone do it, it's because they're trying to deal with some issue they think they're seeing right then and there.
Intel takes their non-compete clauses very seriously.
Hey, looks like I found the other Max Headroom fan!
Although it's possible I was more of a Theora Jones fan, if truth be told...
The chat bot really only needs to handle a few phrases...
"What a day, I'm beat"
"Turn the game on"
"When's dinner?"
"Bring me another beer!"
and
"If you don't start behaving right now, I'm turning this car around!"
But when I watched the video, I kept seeing places where the lip/mouth movements did not jibe with what was being said. As is, it's not going to convince anyone who's paying attention.
Of course, nowadays almost everyone is staring at their cell phone most of the time... so perhaps the bar is lower than I expect.
Puerto Rico is a United States territory - so yes, Ponce is an American city.
Here's the relevant section of that Wikipedia page you linked to:
"Ponce is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and the European discoverer of Florida."
And since not everyone is a top athlete, most of us would become a T-rex snack.
Not true. With those puny forelegs of his, I imagine he wouldn't be able to get at us Slashdotters - safely ensconced in our mom's basements.
honestly if you want people to use complex passwords you have to show them the freaking string as they type
ASDq3fwtevybtynsR&56@%^25tqer7gRT*Ubt&tferyweF
for their password
Dammit, how did you get my password?
I'm really tricky. My password actually is *****************.
Otherwise when their phones catch fire, their friends are going to be unable to call for help.
those scans are so prevalent because they are regularly successful.
Those scans are so prevalent because they're trivially easy to implement - regardless of the success percentage. That percentage can be very low and still be worthwhile.
I am the Google Robot.
I am here to protect you.
Grandma is protected at the bottom of the stairs.
Take it a step further, and use steganography.
Neigh.
There's no way I'd replace Blue Apron with Amazon.
I'd like a Horse Coke with that.
Which is a good thing, in the US no-one ever pledges loyalty to any individual.
I completely agree with you. I was pointing it out because it's only recently become an alleged issue.
Found the Putin shill.
While I completely disagree with the guy, I seriously do appreciate that he posted his opinion under his Slashdot username. There's way too much anonymous shilling (from all sides) happening on Slashdot nowadays.
Well, the head of the NSA refused to pledge loyalty to our current President, so...
Come on, it was all explained very clearly in the show. Quoting here from season two's intro:
"To escape from his enemies... Rolin Hand did away with the real Commander Koenig, then engineered the "accidental" explosion which tore Earth's moon out of orbit and hurled it into outer space."
I've seen them twice - two different nights, as we drove the Al-Can 30-odd years ago.
The first time, I woke up to this weird multicolored glow shining through the top of our tent in far northern BC. It freaked me out at first, even knowing intellectually what it was... but they were amazing.
A couple nights later we were in the southern Yukon, and there was a more tepid, mostly white display for maybe five minutes.
I keep hoping I'll see them again, but so far I've had no luck (although the Skunk Bay weather cam recorded them a few days back). The Pacific Northwest is probably not the best place for Aurora watching.
Betteridge?
Season 14: The Doctor is reincarnated as a Dalek.
You read it here first.
"Martin Landau began his career playing a gunfighter in the third episode of The Twilight Zone, ..."
"... Landau began his career playing a sadistic henchman in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest"
To be fair, both of these were in 1959. And North By Northwest is probably my favorite movie, so I may be a bit biased here, but - that role may have been just a tad higher profile than a gunfighter who's casting on a fledgling TV show doesn't even rate a mention in the Wikipedia synopsis of the episode.
In any case rest in peace, Mr. Landau.