yeah, I'm a bit confused by his comment too. Is he suggesting the ext4 support is not available? Because umm...wtf does the kernel (otherwise) have to do with what formatting is "default?"
"The partnership will also work on ways to lower the amount of data necessary to power most apps and Internet experiences..."
IOW, they want a larger base of people who have fewer rights and who can't easily sue, upon which to experiment with more sophisticated tracking methods. Getting an identifying code from your phone shouldn't be too hard, after all - linking that to the facebook account logged into with the phone allows facebook to then link to what ever other sites you visit (again with your phone serial number). Notice the phone chip manufacturers on the list? Between Nokia, Qualcomm, and Samsung...what portion of the cell phone chip market is that? If the US gov would be interested in stopping a thing, they still couldn't - not when it's not happening here. But with the recent happenings here and in Europe, we know our "first world" governments are doing quite the opposite of such privacy and anti-tracking interests...
wow, does that make the other person? I remember having to fuss with it some in the 90s, but since then it pretty much just automagically works every time I have to set one up...
I should give money to the wine project. I keep a token windows laptop around for a few things, and those things are diminishing in number, but last time I used wine it really did take care of even those few things. I think the only reason I don't do it is because...well, witcher2 and bioshock infinite, honestly;) And I only play something like that once a month or so
the one time I don't have mod points to spend...*this*, however. I can't believe someone is coming out and admitting that they judge a coder by the lines of code they write, and would judge them poorly by fixing a million lines of code other people wrote (ostensibly, without breaking the code...). Enforcing formatting is practically the only thing I like about Python (that and the interactive shell...) but hey, maybe that's just because I've had to fix other people crap code for a couple decades. I don't have the advantage of youth and most of my experience being in the classroom, enabling me to dismiss someone for not writing a million lines of code:P
DNS was created as an international standard to solve a problem that was well established, and for which less elegant solutions were already in place. Where's the equiv in this situation, for RFC805?
email her a link to a google map of that precise location, then. Create a list of locations you like - your favorite knitting, candle, and cat supplies stores - and then share that location list with your mom. Everything she needs to access those locations is already on her smartphone, most likely.
The vast majority of humans don't speak english well - fark, we can't even get half the people here in the US to do it. Numbers though - those are a certainty. Telling someone to write down a series of numbers works easily, asking them to write down words they may not know is not. Those words only being useful at a specific website, which then does nothing more than give you the location... Yeah, I get it, they're trying to be for latitude/longitude what DNS is for IP space. But silly "flying.monkey.dung" names isn't the way to do that.
so, uh, you think that soaking a lit cigar with DEET (a highly flammable substance) or covering your body in olive oil were given as serious suggestions? You may want to consider the option that his suggestions were in jest.
I'm vegan, but my blood iron levels are always at the top end of the reference range. My wife isn't vegan, her blood iron levels are also substantially lower than mine.
When the two of us go out to areas with mosquitoes, she gets eaten up, and I don't get touched. A couple that are friends of ours are similar in eating, opposite with mosquitoes. My little brother doesn't get touched, and is practically a carnivore. Our parents get eaten like mad, and are balanced eaters. I don't know the blood iron levels of anyone other than my wife and I, but hey.
As to the rest of the items on this silly list - I drink beer, my wife doesn't. We're either both wearing socks, or neither of us are (well, in the situations where we're both there, and there are mosquitoes). Neither of us are type O blood. Meh.
Something even more important than the fact that they forced me to create a "microsoft account" that was an admin, and other such things which really screwed stuff up on my laptop that I use in corporate america as a consultant (I'm not on just one domain, I go around...)
....I can't shut down my win8.1 laptop. Icon just sits there and spins. And in typical microsoft fashion, as has been the case in every OS they've ever had since their first release, the logging is horrible so I don't have any idea what the problem is.
Alternatively, if I step away from it and it goes to sleep, it won't come back out of sleep. It tries, and just gets to a black screen with the mouse pointer. I'm guessing the two issues are related. Does logging provide a clue? Nope.
Didn't have these problems at all, until exactly when I installed 8.1. And as it so happens...I can't uninstall it. Lovely.
With such a significant bug, you'd think there would be a place to report such things. You'd think they want to know. Nope - no bug reporting is open.
I absolutely promise you that your daily life is inconsistent with what you're saying here. I don't even know you, and I can still say that without fear of being wrong. There's the challenge: do you personally live your life 100% to the benefit of the continuation of the species, regardless anything that might happen to you personally?
how about the argument that "man" as a species is less important than all the "men" that actually exist? If you have to break the backs of several generations just to have the slight possibility that someone whose unborn great great great great great grandchild might get to land on some other rock...
It would be exponentially less expensive, comparatively immediate, and help real, tangible (versus the intangible concept of "man") if we cleaned up a place (Earth) that is already 99.99999% ideal for our species, versus trying to take some other rock which doesn't even have an atmosphere, and tera-forming it for the benefit of a tiny handful of people.
manipulating based on particular names is one thing, but is the federal government going to be coming up with the list of phrases (versus names) for which we shouldn't be able to search? I'd love to see that list, and have a conversation with the author thereof about what they think censorship means...
If a lot of people that started a search with "prescription drugs online" were searching for "prescription drugs online unicorns riding gorillas wearing purple napkin trampoline" then that is what autocomplete would suggest. Bloody hell, it's not like someone at Google is manually creating "suggestions" for people...
point in fact they do; interns become code monkeys, code monkeys become designers, designers become architects or managers. If you have an IT group without any seniority, you either have a very tiny, or a very inefficient, IT group. Note too that one can be from a younger "generation of programmers" but be, as a human, older than the more senior programmers; some people get started early, some people get started late. It's not really that complicated, however.
"long enough for a couple of generations of programmers to come and go" - funny, seems like they're precisely referring to a group of people. You really think programmer generations are 30 years? We've easily had 3+ major paradigm shifts (ie, generations) in the last 37 years in the - despite what you're saying - very specific group named "programmers." Is there some reason in particular you think the next 37 years won't have 2?
I've often been tempted to abandon my mixed-case username simply because what I thought was funny 800,000 years ago is not what amuses me now. There's a bit of that sort of thing too for the older group, I think. (I did though have the nick "dazed" for which I forgot the password, but then created this second acount soon enough thereafter to still look like an old timer)
Don't be silly - FB umm...err...well, they made a website using PHP like hundreds of thousands of other websites! One that allowed you to communicate with your friends and family, like myspace and all the other things before it! They got a lot of money with sustainable profit model! They...err...sorry, that's all I can think of...
Anyone who would give the packaging to FB (same as Apple, really) has to give the packaging of AWS to Amazon...and on a technical level, they are leagues and leagues beyond FB on "innovation" in that packaging.
I had an S3, and the damn thing drove me insane. One can turn off gestures for the core phone, but then you have to turn it off for every app as well, and guess what...some apps don't allow one to do so. Such as, I dunno, the default web browser. Which is just awesome for someone with a movement disorder such as mine (somewhat similar to parkisons). The damn phone was damn near unusable.
If my whole house started doing such as a requisite for simply getting bloody internet access, I would officially flip the fark out - sell off everything I own, and move to Costa Rica where I'd spend the rest of my days drinking whiskey from a coconut, while sitting on the beach in Punta Uva. Which really, sounds like a win, but my wife said she won't let me unless I legit go insane...and damnit, she knows.
Sidebars aside, sucks that some companies make their interfaces go such directions. Somewhat like back when it became impossible to find a cell phone which was only a cell phone and had no camera, I fear much will continue going down the route of touch and gestures...things which I, alas, can't do with finesse. (is this where I tell you punk kids to get off my lawn?)
The typical person going out of their way to get a Tesla is far more likely to have, such as in my particular case, solar power at home. At the end of the year, I get a little money back from Sempra here in SoCal, because I produced in excess (I don't store for night use, but I produce more excess during the day than what I use at night). The Tesla, in this scenario, is practically zero emissions...one should, for my particular example, only count the fixed CO2-equiv of the solar panel production and the production of the tesla itself...which is combined, most likely, far less than the CO2-equiv of the production of the SUV. That point forward, every mile burned literally does nothing other than increase that gap.
Is it "fair" to include the power plant CO2 emissions? Sure, why not...but understand that such is a worst case scenario, and does not necessarily represent the norm. Also, note there is zero effective method for being clean with an SUV, whereas with an electric you do at least have the option of getting solar, if you don't already have it. At the very least, you can choose to pay higher electric rates by choosing to buy renewable energy (most markets allow for this option).
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yeah, I'm a bit confused by his comment too. Is he suggesting the ext4 support is not available? Because umm...wtf does the kernel (otherwise) have to do with what formatting is "default?"
IOW, they want a larger base of people who have fewer rights and who can't easily sue, upon which to experiment with more sophisticated tracking methods. Getting an identifying code from your phone shouldn't be too hard, after all - linking that to the facebook account logged into with the phone allows facebook to then link to what ever other sites you visit (again with your phone serial number). Notice the phone chip manufacturers on the list? Between Nokia, Qualcomm, and Samsung...what portion of the cell phone chip market is that? If the US gov would be interested in stopping a thing, they still couldn't - not when it's not happening here. But with the recent happenings here and in Europe, we know our "first world" governments are doing quite the opposite of such privacy and anti-tracking interests...
wow, does that make the other person? I remember having to fuss with it some in the 90s, but since then it pretty much just automagically works every time I have to set one up...
I should give money to the wine project. I keep a token windows laptop around for a few things, and those things are diminishing in number, but last time I used wine it really did take care of even those few things. I think the only reason I don't do it is because...well, witcher2 and bioshock infinite, honestly ;) And I only play something like that once a month or so
the one time I don't have mod points to spend...*this*, however. I can't believe someone is coming out and admitting that they judge a coder by the lines of code they write, and would judge them poorly by fixing a million lines of code other people wrote (ostensibly, without breaking the code...). Enforcing formatting is practically the only thing I like about Python (that and the interactive shell...) but hey, maybe that's just because I've had to fix other people crap code for a couple decades. I don't have the advantage of youth and most of my experience being in the classroom, enabling me to dismiss someone for not writing a million lines of code :P
DNS was created as an international standard to solve a problem that was well established, and for which less elegant solutions were already in place. Where's the equiv in this situation, for RFC805?
email her a link to a google map of that precise location, then. Create a list of locations you like - your favorite knitting, candle, and cat supplies stores - and then share that location list with your mom. Everything she needs to access those locations is already on her smartphone, most likely. The vast majority of humans don't speak english well - fark, we can't even get half the people here in the US to do it. Numbers though - those are a certainty. Telling someone to write down a series of numbers works easily, asking them to write down words they may not know is not. Those words only being useful at a specific website, which then does nothing more than give you the location... Yeah, I get it, they're trying to be for latitude/longitude what DNS is for IP space. But silly "flying.monkey.dung" names isn't the way to do that.
border, even. spelling fail to go with the geography fail. ;)
What the fark would that have to do with the Panama canal, several thousand miles away?
so, uh, you think that soaking a lit cigar with DEET (a highly flammable substance) or covering your body in olive oil were given as serious suggestions? You may want to consider the option that his suggestions were in jest.
I'm vegan, but my blood iron levels are always at the top end of the reference range. My wife isn't vegan, her blood iron levels are also substantially lower than mine. When the two of us go out to areas with mosquitoes, she gets eaten up, and I don't get touched. A couple that are friends of ours are similar in eating, opposite with mosquitoes. My little brother doesn't get touched, and is practically a carnivore. Our parents get eaten like mad, and are balanced eaters. I don't know the blood iron levels of anyone other than my wife and I, but hey. As to the rest of the items on this silly list - I drink beer, my wife doesn't. We're either both wearing socks, or neither of us are (well, in the situations where we're both there, and there are mosquitoes). Neither of us are type O blood. Meh.
....I can't shut down my win8.1 laptop. Icon just sits there and spins. And in typical microsoft fashion, as has been the case in every OS they've ever had since their first release, the logging is horrible so I don't have any idea what the problem is.
Alternatively, if I step away from it and it goes to sleep, it won't come back out of sleep. It tries, and just gets to a black screen with the mouse pointer. I'm guessing the two issues are related. Does logging provide a clue? Nope.
Didn't have these problems at all, until exactly when I installed 8.1. And as it so happens...I can't uninstall it. Lovely.
With such a significant bug, you'd think there would be a place to report such things. You'd think they want to know. Nope - no bug reporting is open.
like wearing seatbelts? mandating crash test ratings? etc? We can go down the route of comparing it to cars if you *really* want to...
I absolutely promise you that your daily life is inconsistent with what you're saying here. I don't even know you, and I can still say that without fear of being wrong. There's the challenge: do you personally live your life 100% to the benefit of the continuation of the species, regardless anything that might happen to you personally?
It would be exponentially less expensive, comparatively immediate, and help real, tangible (versus the intangible concept of "man") if we cleaned up a place (Earth) that is already 99.99999% ideal for our species, versus trying to take some other rock which doesn't even have an atmosphere, and tera-forming it for the benefit of a tiny handful of people.
manipulating based on particular names is one thing, but is the federal government going to be coming up with the list of phrases (versus names) for which we shouldn't be able to search? I'd love to see that list, and have a conversation with the author thereof about what they think censorship means...
If a lot of people that started a search with "prescription drugs online" were searching for "prescription drugs online unicorns riding gorillas wearing purple napkin trampoline" then that is what autocomplete would suggest. Bloody hell, it's not like someone at Google is manually creating "suggestions" for people...
point in fact they do; interns become code monkeys, code monkeys become designers, designers become architects or managers. If you have an IT group without any seniority, you either have a very tiny, or a very inefficient, IT group. Note too that one can be from a younger "generation of programmers" but be, as a human, older than the more senior programmers; some people get started early, some people get started late. It's not really that complicated, however.
"long enough for a couple of generations of programmers to come and go" - funny, seems like they're precisely referring to a group of people. You really think programmer generations are 30 years? We've easily had 3+ major paradigm shifts (ie, generations) in the last 37 years in the - despite what you're saying - very specific group named "programmers." Is there some reason in particular you think the next 37 years won't have 2?
I've often been tempted to abandon my mixed-case username simply because what I thought was funny 800,000 years ago is not what amuses me now. There's a bit of that sort of thing too for the older group, I think. (I did though have the nick "dazed" for which I forgot the password, but then created this second acount soon enough thereafter to still look like an old timer)
err...that should say "got a lot of money without a sustainable profit model" - oh well ;) Slashdot should "innovate" a way to edit posts...
Anyone who would give the packaging to FB (same as Apple, really) has to give the packaging of AWS to Amazon...and on a technical level, they are leagues and leagues beyond FB on "innovation" in that packaging.
If my whole house started doing such as a requisite for simply getting bloody internet access, I would officially flip the fark out - sell off everything I own, and move to Costa Rica where I'd spend the rest of my days drinking whiskey from a coconut, while sitting on the beach in Punta Uva. Which really, sounds like a win, but my wife said she won't let me unless I legit go insane...and damnit, she knows.
Sidebars aside, sucks that some companies make their interfaces go such directions. Somewhat like back when it became impossible to find a cell phone which was only a cell phone and had no camera, I fear much will continue going down the route of touch and gestures...things which I, alas, can't do with finesse. (is this where I tell you punk kids to get off my lawn?)
I'm not counting money at all, I'm speaking only of environmental impact
Is it "fair" to include the power plant CO2 emissions? Sure, why not...but understand that such is a worst case scenario, and does not necessarily represent the norm. Also, note there is zero effective method for being clean with an SUV, whereas with an electric you do at least have the option of getting solar, if you don't already have it. At the very least, you can choose to pay higher electric rates by choosing to buy renewable energy (most markets allow for this option).