Well done rulers of China, you got dissent by proxy. They can't criticise you guys directly, but they'll rise up via the commercial products that you guys get your hands into.
Doublethink: 1. Communist Party is the best party in the world (except for the US, who now have the best of everything) 2. Steam sucks! We want better games! We demand change!
I'll wager that California and a bunch of other high revenue states will enact laws to counteract this measure, and the hillbillies will get all the mercury pollution and they won't notice any difference because there's not much in their heads to be affected in the first place.
* messages not being delivered * no option to retry sending an undelivered message * adding delayed messages to the middle of the conversation (possibly off screen by now) to confuse people when they say "You didn't tell me that" and then scroll and see that the text is there, but wasn't there when the conversation was happening * can't fetch history easily - the old version could fetch 1 month, 1 year, or all of it; the new version fetches a small chunk when you scroll all the way to the top, and it gets slower and slower as you fetch more * history search says "nothing found" while at the same time highlighting the word in your chat window; this is more likely if the chat window contains history fetched through scrolling
You'd think that Microsoft don't use Skype themselves, because these things are easy to spot.
There are many things that I'm surprised they're not a feature.
The one that bugs me right now: Voicemail scrubbing - why isn't that a thing?. Why do I have to ring a number and go through an IVR and listen in one sitting to a hastily spoken message in an accent I may not always understand on first try?
What I'm saying is: how hard is it to build HulloMail into the existing networks and provide it as a default feature?
Sounds like the incumbent is being tricked into raising their prices until the nearby competitor pulls their cables into the area. Then your lawyer better find a reason to sue the incumbent when they bring their prices down to undercut you.
Yeah, back in my day it was too easy to have an epic security fail because your own damn server was too complicated and the peons configuring it didn't know WTF they were doing. Now they have this cloud thing with point and click security...
Now get off my... err... I'm not that old actually. I don't have a lawn yet.
Anecdote: Somebody told me they were building the packets on the fly before they knew they even wanted them sent, and if a decision was made that the packet shouldn't be sent then they'd fudge the checksum at the end of the pipeline.
Or to paraphrase somebody who wouldn't add more flash memory to a device because it costed 2 cents more per unit: when you add volume it ads up to millions.
1. You're doing a great job. Keep it up 2. Thanks for all your hard work. Keep it up. 3. You're a rock star. Have a beer as a thank you for all you do. . . . One day... YOU DID WHAT? DELETED OUR PRODUCTION DATABASE?
Yeah... I'm suspicious of thank you notes. They make that ton of bricks feel so much heavier when it falls on my head. It's like a mistake is a lot bigger when it's made by somebody perceived to be competent than if the same mistake were made by an idiot who was pretty much expected to do it when the planets aligned just right.
Let's take this one step further: end road neutrality.
Deciding whether and how to transmit nytimes.com and deciding whether and how to transmit "The New York Times" dead tree bundle are not meaningfully different for First Amendment purposes.
I can see a problem with my argument, but it can be solved: privatise all roads and take the government out of them. Let the free market handle it./sarcasm
As far as I can tell, nothing else is linked to it. I looked everywhere on that website for things and came up empty. No Word or other desktop app licenses, no 3rd party addons, nothing. And my work computer isn't integrated with it past the browser tab, and in addition I'm running Linux so it can't be linked to Office365 even if somebody really wanted that.
LibreOffice because at some point in history OpenOffice dropped the ball and didn't pick it back up for years. That's why LibreOffice exists to begin with.
It's my workplace email. That's the only bit of Office365 that we use. About a month ago it started logging out while nobody's looking. No other accounts linked. No fancy stuff added to it. Just online Outlook. I cleared the cookies, local storage, and whatever else I could find.
This is the same webmail interface where if I use a full size reading panel I can click through it and action on the list of messages underneath it. I'm not a fan.
They don't randomly log me out. The experience is as if the session timeout was reduced to a few hours and I can't find any setting regarding it. My mobile devices have been logged off ages ago and I didn't bother logging them back in because it's so annoying to just stop getting messages for no reason.
I use Outlook of Office 365 because that's what my workplace uses. I pester them to move over to Google every chance I get. Not even them use the rest of office. We share specs via Google Docs.
Hmm... you also need to find an English-friendly country which uses subtitles rather than dubbing, so that petty much leaves you with Romanian. I've tried Spanish and Russian and they're dubbing their copies. Had zero luck with Hungarian (come on guys, contribute to Google Translate).
Learn a foreign language to the level required to say "watch $EnglishMovieTitle online".
Example, in Romanian: "vezi $EnglishMovieTitle online". Sometimes you could get better results by adding the word "gratis" to your query.
The websites you find might be unintelligible, but the thing you're looking for might be intuitive enough for you to use even though you don't speak Klingon. Yeah, send a DMCA notice to Google Translate, because soon enough people will be searching for "online schauen", "Ver en linea", "Vaata internetis", and so on.
Regardless of language, have your ad blockers and antivirus installed and up to date, as these sites are usually hostile regardless of language. At least "update to Flash HD" might be less tempting now.
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Well done rulers of China, you got dissent by proxy. They can't criticise you guys directly, but they'll rise up via the commercial products that you guys get your hands into.
Doublethink:
1. Communist Party is the best party in the world (except for the US, who now have the best of everything)
2. Steam sucks! We want better games! We demand change!
Sounds like somebody needs to make a film called PornStarbucks. The pun is good, and the location just made headlines.
wouldn't be an issue if there was a user removable battery in these things
Don't these things have a power button to turn them off?
Wow, that's Microsoft quality!
I'll wager that California and a bunch of other high revenue states will enact laws to counteract this measure, and the hillbillies will get all the mercury pollution and they won't notice any difference because there's not much in their heads to be affected in the first place.
* messages not being delivered
* no option to retry sending an undelivered message
* adding delayed messages to the middle of the conversation (possibly off screen by now) to confuse people when they say "You didn't tell me that" and then scroll and see that the text is there, but wasn't there when the conversation was happening
* can't fetch history easily - the old version could fetch 1 month, 1 year, or all of it; the new version fetches a small chunk when you scroll all the way to the top, and it gets slower and slower as you fetch more
* history search says "nothing found" while at the same time highlighting the word in your chat window; this is more likely if the chat window contains history fetched through scrolling
You'd think that Microsoft don't use Skype themselves, because these things are easy to spot.
There are many things that I'm surprised they're not a feature.
The one that bugs me right now: Voicemail scrubbing - why isn't that a thing?. Why do I have to ring a number and go through an IVR and listen in one sitting to a hastily spoken message in an accent I may not always understand on first try?
What I'm saying is: how hard is it to build HulloMail into the existing networks and provide it as a default feature?
Sounds like the incumbent is being tricked into raising their prices until the nearby competitor pulls their cables into the area. Then your lawyer better find a reason to sue the incumbent when they bring their prices down to undercut you.
Leave it to Samsung to write code that allows apps to install without asking you to confirm permissions.
Yeah, back in my day it was too easy to have an epic security fail because your own damn server was too complicated and the peons configuring it didn't know WTF they were doing. Now they have this cloud thing with point and click security...
Now get off my... err... I'm not that old actually. I don't have a lawn yet.
I've been fucking saying this for almost a decade, now
Citation needed? Preferably in a scientific journal.
Anecdote: Somebody told me they were building the packets on the fly before they knew they even wanted them sent, and if a decision was made that the packet shouldn't be sent then they'd fudge the checksum at the end of the pipeline.
Or to paraphrase somebody who wouldn't add more flash memory to a device because it costed 2 cents more per unit: when you add volume it ads up to millions.
Zimbabwe says $1tn is a pretty good price for one apple.
1. You're doing a great job. Keep it up
2. Thanks for all your hard work. Keep it up.
3. You're a rock star. Have a beer as a thank you for all you do.
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One day... YOU DID WHAT? DELETED OUR PRODUCTION DATABASE?
Yeah... I'm suspicious of thank you notes. They make that ton of bricks feel so much heavier when it falls on my head. It's like a mistake is a lot bigger when it's made by somebody perceived to be competent than if the same mistake were made by an idiot who was pretty much expected to do it when the planets aligned just right.
Opening another Slashdot tab when you already have a Slashdot tab open from 1 minute ago, and it's right in front of you too.
Let's take this one step further: end road neutrality.
Deciding whether and how to transmit nytimes.com and deciding whether and how to transmit "The New York Times" dead tree bundle are not meaningfully different for First Amendment purposes.
I can see a problem with my argument, but it can be solved: privatise all roads and take the government out of them. Let the free market handle it. /sarcasm
"If you're a true friend, please copy/paste this to your friends, don't forward it."
I'm seeing this on Facebook once in a while
As far as I can tell, nothing else is linked to it. I looked everywhere on that website for things and came up empty. No Word or other desktop app licenses, no 3rd party addons, nothing. And my work computer isn't integrated with it past the browser tab, and in addition I'm running Linux so it can't be linked to Office365 even if somebody really wanted that.
LibreOffice because at some point in history OpenOffice dropped the ball and didn't pick it back up for years. That's why LibreOffice exists to begin with.
It's my workplace email. That's the only bit of Office365 that we use. About a month ago it started logging out while nobody's looking. No other accounts linked. No fancy stuff added to it. Just online Outlook. I cleared the cookies, local storage, and whatever else I could find.
This is the same webmail interface where if I use a full size reading panel I can click through it and action on the list of messages underneath it. I'm not a fan.
They don't randomly log me out. The experience is as if the session timeout was reduced to a few hours and I can't find any setting regarding it. My mobile devices have been logged off ages ago and I didn't bother logging them back in because it's so annoying to just stop getting messages for no reason.
I use Outlook of Office 365 because that's what my workplace uses. I pester them to move over to Google every chance I get. Not even them use the rest of office. We share specs via Google Docs.
How about not logging me off twice a day (if not more often) on Office365?
Do a study where they electrically "stimulate" their reproductive organs. I'm curious what the results would be in that case.
Hmm... you also need to find an English-friendly country which uses subtitles rather than dubbing, so that petty much leaves you with Romanian. I've tried Spanish and Russian and they're dubbing their copies. Had zero luck with Hungarian (come on guys, contribute to Google Translate).
Guess you're stuck with Romanian sites then :)
Learn a foreign language to the level required to say "watch $EnglishMovieTitle online".
Example, in Romanian: "vezi $EnglishMovieTitle online". Sometimes you could get better results by adding the word "gratis" to your query.
The websites you find might be unintelligible, but the thing you're looking for might be intuitive enough for you to use even though you don't speak Klingon. Yeah, send a DMCA notice to Google Translate, because soon enough people will be searching for "online schauen", "Ver en linea", "Vaata internetis", and so on.
Regardless of language, have your ad blockers and antivirus installed and up to date, as these sites are usually hostile regardless of language. At least "update to Flash HD" might be less tempting now.