As the hacker's dream toy: it is fully functional. As a GSM phone: some people have been using it to receive and place phone calls and SMS for months, but with currently shipping software the battery life is only one day. As a GPS device: critical bugs have been ironed out and there is nice software to know where you are using OpenStreetMap. As an alarm clock, media player, internet browser, game console, email reader and contacts manager: software is not stable yet.
I want my General Purpose computer to be able to fit in my pocket, run whatever programs I want, and be able to make phone calls. Why is that hard or unreasonable?
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I'd say that's a pretty good summary - except the costumes - which were really freakin' awesome.
And I do enjoy watching the starcraft tourney matches. But I guess that falls heavily into the YMMV.
That this conversation is amongst people who use nicknames instead of their real names. Just hilarious.
Hi. I'm kwerle. Google kwerle. Hit my email address (yeah, listed). Extra points if you figure out my homepage from my name and hostname. Or just click my profile link and visit from there.
I also don't wear a nametag in public. That doesn't mean my public actions are private.
You need to understand respect for those that desire privacy.
That's a nice idea, but not really true, is it? Not in this country, anyway.
Just because you're an exhibitionist doesn't mean that we are. We can be private in our thoughts, deeds, and actions.
Thoughts are private (this week), and nothing will change that (short of some extraordinary medical breakthroughs and/or cooperation by the subject).
Actions or Deeds that are private are barely worth noting. If I take a piss on my living room table, and nobody witnesses it, I guess that's an action or deed - and it's private. If I do the same at a friends house, it is certainly an action - and will remain as private as the 2 of us decide to keep it. If I do it in public, then it will remain as private as the public decides to keep it. So I guess I'm saying that's a non-statement.
Anonymity also insulates you against the whims of government, and organizations that don't have your best interests in mind.
I disagree. And I think that anyone would if they considered the various equal rights movements.
That's why it is an analogy - because it ain't perfect.
The sole purpose of this particular bike is to rev loudly for 24 hours straight and ruin the atmosphere. It isn't always easy to tell when someone is riding this bike or a regular bicycle.
Maybe open a restaurant, and sue anybody who revs their engine on a motorcycle for causing a loss of profit and damaging the reputation of my restaurant (ooh, bunch of Harley guys hang there). Profit.:)
So you open a burger joint. 30 bikers show up and order cokes. Then they sit in the parking lot for the next 23 hours hours and rev their engines, driving away other customers. And they do this every day. And you're not going to do anything about it?
'Cause that is essentially what is happening in game.
Now we can argue about who blizzard should sue and how much and all that - but my little point is this: they are doing something about it, and I think that's pretty reasonable.
I highly recommend getting an external tester if you don't already have one. I find that when I test my own stuff, it usually works. But when someone else tests it... Not so much.
In this race, Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's book, while Google looks suspiciously like Linux.
It's more like Apple is taking a page from Apple's book and Google looks suspiciously like Microsoft.
For all their faults, Microsoft have always been more developer friendly than Apple.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean that Microsoft was/is less likely to screw their developers, then I think I disagree. If you mean that Microsoft supplies better [free] tools to their developers, then I'm sure I disagree.
See, the problem with that is the "School Officials" would have to understand assigning weight to assignments. Doesn't that seem pretty far-fetched, given the solution they've chosen?
I never imagined the MUA would see that message. I figured the MTA would deal with all that, and the MUA would continue talking to your server. Then it's up to the server to pull the messages. Maybe that's where I'm not getting it.
Of course that whole system would only work for directly connected machines (24x7).
I never considered that the pull system would be web-esque. Maybe that's where my disconnect is. But I don't think so...
Just as the current push system has a message from the receiver: "Try again in X minutes - I'm busy", I imagine the sender in the pull system will have the same message. Problem solved.
And as I outlined before, you could have N messages for the same receipt: light traffic, medium traffic, heavy traffic.
I've seen a few folks advocate the pull model for email and say that the burden then rests more on the sender than the receiver. I just don't see it.
I'm a spammer sending as much email to as many folks as possible. What would I rather do: send the message itself (let's say it's 2K), or send tiny receipts for a message (let's say 1/2K or less)? Then when the receivers pull their message I send the 2K message. And if I start to get flooded I dynamically reduce the size to 1K or even less? And if I'm slow, I increase the size to 5K or more (pretty pictures, etc).
I don't have to store the content - I can just generate it dynamically. And I can even send a bunch of receipts and change the spam content over time depending on who is paying me and how effective some spam solution is at any given time.
So, seriously, how does the pull method help? It seems to me that it's worse than push.
It doesn't seem so. But maybe you should start out with something a little more basic - like the difference between your and you're.
I often wonder if people who correct other peoples' grammar on the Internet are just bitchy, or if they're really linguistic idealists, aching to spread perfect grammatical perfection to the masses.
I dunno if wanting folks to spell correctly - especially something as simple as your/you're is idealistic. But I do find the butchering annoying. I'd prefer if everyone just settled on 'yer' - at least it would be consistent.
But it annoys me. So I guess that makes me bitchy.
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There are many european countries in which public service is required. This can mean military, fire, police, or others. I think it's a great idea.
I'm interested to see how Obama's plan plays out.
I'm not trolling. I'm kinda pointing out that it may be easier to support a lot of devices if you have the freedom to recompile your kernel.
Which is great. It can be done.
Which also sucks. *I* shouldn't need to do it.
Latest I've head of this being an issue is for wireless drivers for laptops.
But you're mostly right, I have not run linux seriously for quite a while.
Do I still have to recompile the kernel to get that 3rd party driver to work in linux, or is that one solved?
Cameras don't work and never have... The people who think cameras work are the same people who wouldn't rob you anyway.
So. Should we just take that as an admission of guilt? :-)
As the hacker's dream toy: it is fully functional. As a GSM phone: some people have been using it to receive and place phone calls and SMS for months, but with currently shipping software the battery life is only one day. As a GPS device: critical bugs have been ironed out and there is nice software to know where you are using OpenStreetMap. As an alarm clock, media player, internet browser, game console, email reader and contacts manager: software is not stable yet.
Run, not develop.
it does definitely cause a great deal of inconvenience
It does? How? Whom does it inconvenience?
I want my General Purpose computer to be able to fit in my pocket, run whatever programs I want, and be able to make phone calls. Why is that hard or unreasonable?
I'd say that's a pretty good summary - except the costumes - which were really freakin' awesome.
And I do enjoy watching the starcraft tourney matches. But I guess that falls heavily into the YMMV.
That this conversation is amongst people who use nicknames instead of their real names. Just hilarious.
Hi. I'm kwerle. Google kwerle. Hit my email address (yeah, listed). Extra points if you figure out my homepage from my name and hostname. Or just click my profile link and visit from there.
I also don't wear a nametag in public. That doesn't mean my public actions are private.
What is this privacy you think you'd be giving up?
You need to understand respect for those that desire privacy.
That's a nice idea, but not really true, is it? Not in this country, anyway.
Just because you're an exhibitionist doesn't mean that we are. We can be private in our thoughts, deeds, and actions.
Thoughts are private (this week), and nothing will change that (short of some extraordinary medical breakthroughs and/or cooperation by the subject).
Actions or Deeds that are private are barely worth noting. If I take a piss on my living room table, and nobody witnesses it, I guess that's an action or deed - and it's private. If I do the same at a friends house, it is certainly an action - and will remain as private as the 2 of us decide to keep it. If I do it in public, then it will remain as private as the public decides to keep it. So I guess I'm saying that's a non-statement.
Anonymity also insulates you against the whims of government, and organizations that don't have your best interests in mind.
I disagree. And I think that anyone would if they considered the various equal rights movements.
That's why it is an analogy - because it ain't perfect.
The sole purpose of this particular bike is to rev loudly for 24 hours straight and ruin the atmosphere. It isn't always easy to tell when someone is riding this bike or a regular bicycle.
So, yes, they sued the manufacturer.
Again, this seems pretty reasonable.
Maybe open a restaurant, and sue anybody who revs their engine on a motorcycle for causing a loss of profit and damaging the reputation of my restaurant (ooh, bunch of Harley guys hang there). Profit. :)
So you open a burger joint. 30 bikers show up and order cokes. Then they sit in the parking lot for the next 23 hours hours and rev their engines, driving away other customers. And they do this every day. And you're not going to do anything about it?
'Cause that is essentially what is happening in game.
Now we can argue about who blizzard should sue and how much and all that - but my little point is this: they are doing something about it, and I think that's pretty reasonable.
THAN you have, this week. THAN. Comparing A to B means you use an A. THAN.
I'm feeling like a democrat - as I usually have. I dunno. I don't think I'm all that proud of either party. But I'm pleased that it didn't pass, too.
(too, as in also. see - two o's because there is more than one. THAN one. GUH)
Yeah, yeah. -1, troll, offtopic, uptight, etc.
What he said. Or she. Whatever.
I highly recommend getting an external tester if you don't already have one. I find that when I test my own stuff, it usually works. But when someone else tests it... Not so much.
In this race, Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's book, while Google looks suspiciously like Linux.
It's more like Apple is taking a page from Apple's book and Google looks suspiciously like Microsoft.
For all their faults, Microsoft have always been more developer friendly than Apple.
I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean that Microsoft was/is less likely to screw their developers, then I think I disagree. If you mean that Microsoft supplies better [free] tools to their developers, then I'm sure I disagree.
See, the problem with that is the "School Officials" would have to understand assigning weight to assignments. Doesn't that seem pretty far-fetched, given the solution they've chosen?
I never imagined the MUA would see that message. I figured the MTA would deal with all that, and the MUA would continue talking to your server. Then it's up to the server to pull the messages. Maybe that's where I'm not getting it.
Of course that whole system would only work for directly connected machines (24x7).
I never considered that the pull system would be web-esque. Maybe that's where my disconnect is. But I don't think so...
Just as the current push system has a message from the receiver:
"Try again in X minutes - I'm busy",
I imagine the sender in the pull system will have the same message. Problem solved.
And as I outlined before, you could have N messages for the same receipt: light traffic, medium traffic, heavy traffic.
I've seen a few folks advocate the pull model for email and say that the burden then rests more on the sender than the receiver. I just don't see it.
I'm a spammer sending as much email to as many folks as possible. What would I rather do: send the message itself (let's say it's 2K), or send tiny receipts for a message (let's say 1/2K or less)? Then when the receivers pull their message I send the 2K message. And if I start to get flooded I dynamically reduce the size to 1K or even less? And if I'm slow, I increase the size to 5K or more (pretty pictures, etc).
I don't have to store the content - I can just generate it dynamically. And I can even send a bunch of receipts and change the spam content over time depending on who is paying me and how effective some spam solution is at any given time.
So, seriously, how does the pull method help? It seems to me that it's worse than push.
It doesn't seem so. But maybe you should start out with something a little more basic - like the difference between your and you're.
I often wonder if people who correct other peoples' grammar on the Internet are just bitchy, or if they're really linguistic idealists, aching to spread perfect grammatical perfection to the masses.
I dunno if wanting folks to spell correctly - especially something as simple as your/you're is idealistic. But I do find the butchering annoying. I'd prefer if everyone just settled on 'yer' - at least it would be consistent.
But it annoys me. So I guess that makes me bitchy.
It doesn't seem so. But maybe you should start out with something a little more basic - like the difference between your and you're.
I don't suppose it is all that different - except that NASA does science that generates Patents (and ball point pens), and I don't think the FCC does.
But, they don't seem to quite get that, and public perception is that diesels are dirty, so...
I'm not saying that things aren't better.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_EPA_Reports_Diesel_Linked_To_Lung_Cancer.asp
I'm just saying there are reasons that diesel has a bad image.