My Nexus 5X (latest Android update available) goes into bouts of unresponsiveness sometimes. It comes back in about 2-5 minutes without a reboot, but it just goes into a coma for no reason once in a while. Most of the time it's when I wake it up - i.e. when I actually need to use it. So far I didn't get this in a critical situation, but I expect that will happen at some point - say, when I need to use Android Pay to pay for something (oops, my phone froze, sorry).
As far as hiring and firing is concerned I'm sure they could just contract Experian to keep a Work Performance score and make decisions on a bunch of parameters that you feed into their existing credit scoring framework. Based on that score you decide who to hire, who to fire, who to promote, who to demote, and how much money to offer each individual.
Want a 5% increase? Hmm... it says here you've been spending a lot of time on Slashdot _and_ that affected your productivity (thing took a week instead of two hours, and it was the only thing you had to do), so no.
Spacebar schmaizebar... Clicking on <a href="#anchor> to go to a <a name="anchor"> will hide the target row under the stupid toolbar too. Some sites use JS to scroll back the size of the toolbar to compensate, and it looks creepty as fuck when they do that.
I suffer^W enjoy ad blindness. For one reason or another I seem to lose focus each time an ad shows up, regardless of location. It just registers as a patch of noise. Now, technically, I have focus issues in general as I tend to go inside my head quite regularly, but ads seems to be the pinnacle of this syndrome.
1. Mobile phone and LTE data modem (but no WiFi) on a wrist This is the thing that takes your nano-SIM. Must have a screen large enough to see the date and time, who's calling you, ability to answer/reject the call, and to show a bunch of notifications - no necessarily all at the same time. Kind of like will.i.am's dial - don't put any apps or heavy computing power on it.
2. Wireless attached mini tablet (5" diagonal) This goes in your pocket when you need to go on the Internet while commuting. It will use the watch's LTE connection or normal WiFi to get to the Internet. Can be used to read the text messages. All the usual computing power goes in here.
3. Wireless attached maxi tablet (8", 10", 12"). Same deal as the mini tablet but with a larger screen and even more oomph.
4. Wireless headphones AKA bluetooth headphones, so you can use the phone functionality in the watch.
Sell 1+2+4 for the price of a current smartphone. Sell 1+2+3 for the price of a current LTE-connected tablet. Sell 3 for the price of a current WiFi-only tablet.
You should be able to use the speaker in 2 and 3 for speakerphone and video call functionality.
BUGS: I don't know how all this wireless interconnection will be made to work in trade-show context - i.e. the wireless spectrum is so flooded with EM that nothing can communicate with anything, not even when very close to each other. Adding wire options to the watch, besides looking goofy, might not be an option because of available space.
When it comes to online transactions (i.e. the POS terminal talks to the bank there and then) I think that's not how it works. When you pre-order they authorise your card and keep a hold of it - they may reserve one unit of currency. Once they're ready to fulfil your order they execute the authority they obtained when you pre-ordered. If they decide to cancel then they relinquish the authority and that's the end of that.
For offline transactions (e.g. filling forms with your card details, imprint machines)... the idea is to stop having them. Charities in the UK would have to change their mail-in forms and send people to the Internet, but I have no problem with that. Cheques are gone and so should this be.
I would like to suggest that the CVV2 be removed from the card entirely and moved to a smartphone app. Something akin to Google Authenticator: scan a QR code in your online banking site to initialise the app, then get CVV2 codes on demand.
Now... there are 1000 combinations for CVV2. Generating one per hour, with zero overlap during a cycle, gives you about 41.6 days before codes are reused. In three years the codes would have been recycled 26 times, and be 1/3 into the 27th cycle. I hope the order of each cycle will be different from all the others.
Here's the new text: "The obligation of citizen to bear arms shall be enforced. Every citizen shall receive a basic weapon, and allowed to upgrade at own cost. Every citizen shall be compelled to participate in mandatory weapons training for four weekends a year."
If your rhetoric is true, this should be your objective. I took the idea for that last sentence from Switzerland who, apparently, also have lots of guns, but not anywhere near as many mentally unstable citizens. Or maybe... although they do, they know they're going against a target which is very trained in the use of firearms?
TeX bothers me too, but at least I can get away with thinking of it as 'techs', because as long as I type 'x' on my keyboard to get to it everything works out nicely. But I'm still trying to convince my brain to formulate a solution with 'ksonsh', 'ExxonSH', and other such configurations to make it easier to get it from brain to keyboard, based on how people would say the word at first sight in a few European languages. Aliasing it to 'xsh' (eks S H) might be the best idea, together with "the shell whose name we shall not say".
Nope. This is actually usable. It works like a shell, but can drop into inline Python on a whim, and that has syntactic sugar to very easily run shell commands. The more I play with it the more I feel like I'll convert to it by the middle of the week.
I'm going to guess that a multi-liner won't satisfy you.
It works like iPython: it autoindents if it notices the need, instead of submitting the command. You don't need any backslashes at the end of the line to tell it to do that. If you need to change something, you get to edit the entire block that you submitted. You'd probably use urllib* for your example. *but... as far as I can tell the urllib included with xonch isn't very functional at this time
Let's assume it will actually work in the near future: all those bash patterns would have to be rethought.
As for your example: I'm pretty sure I'd use curl or wget instead of doing what you did to begin with anyway. If it's a production script that needs to be quick (the only reason to do it your way) then it should not be a one liner and instead of <>/dev/tcp I'd pipe through 'nc' (netcat), as I'm yet to see/dev/tcp enabled by default anywhere:) Why the heck do you need the >&0 redirect anyway?
Here's how I'd do it for the same effect, but without any jumping through flaming hoops.
Expect it to have its name ripped to pieces (pronounced pisces, for the heck of it). Which pronunciation guide did they use? Is there a language in the world that natively makes it sound right like that?
And Qt5 breaks code written for Qt4 which, in turn, breaks code written for Qt3. And Windows 10 breaks drivers written for Windows 8. And Linux 2.6 broke code written for Linux 2.4 which broke code written for Linux 2.2. And I'm pretty sure modern C broke code written for ye olde C.
That's what major version numbers are for: to announce Major Breakage (or possibly even General Breakage) and his mighty army of doom.
It's easy: if it's advertised on a Samsung TV, boycott it. If enough people do this, the advertisers will stop buying ad space on Samsung, and the situation will solve itself.
On the other hand, "get big in 5 seconds" ads seem to do just fine even though most people should be educated about them by now, so... yeah, the problem will still solve itself. More speedily so.
Here's a made up example: If after this, the EDL (English Defence League) rallies start yapping "We love the Muslamics* We want to give them cookies. They deserve cookies!", what then?
They didn't patent API re-use, so prior art doesn't apply here. This lawsuit was about if this common practice was legal under copyright law or everybody just broke the law until now because nobody bothered to challenge the practice. It's like piracy in Eastern Europe: it's common, it's been happening since computers appeared around those parts - just ask Microsoft about how they got their software stronghold there, but that doesn't mean it's actually legal to get your latest Windows and films from torrent sites, even if you pretty print all your covers and fill a shelving unit just like people who buy the stuff.
If Java were 100% closed source PaaS and people reimplemented Harmony to mimic its API 100% in another cloud that isn't owned by Oracle, what would these guys say? Basically, this ruling was one between "you can reimplement other people's APIs on your own time and dime, and that's fine" and "My API! Mine! Go make your own!"
GPL isn't dead. Oracle can go implement a closed source version of the Linux kernel API just fine. Make it a drop-in replacement that is better than the GPL one and you might even make some money out of it. GNU/kOracle is perfectly valid without violating any GPL - especially under this ruling.
We could still use that floaty thing with coordinates on it though, in addition to this. I'd say to install it in such a way that it doesn't cause any airodynamic drag or anything, but separates from the aircraft in case of a water landing/crashing and goes on its merry way like a letter in a bottle to hopefully wash on a shore and be found hopefully later than never. Maybe it could inflate itself on contact with water to make it easier to spot.
It would be a bit useless on land, but land is easier to search, so that's OK.
I imagine that if MH370 were mentioned, you'd ask your question differently. The certain to float piece of garbage would probably be desirable in that case, as the large piece of aircraft is mostly at the bottom of an unexplored ocean with tiny bits that are hard to identify turning up places.
Humans are too expensive to keep, so they should be killed. Except for the rich ones, who can keep themselves and won't share their mountains of cash with the rest. They agree with the robots: "kill them! nobody touches my money!", especially in the light of the fact that "get a fucking job you lazy human" doesn't actually make sense anymore.
So, her name isn't pronounced "Goodge" in one syllable, but "Goo-guh", so it sounds like Google without the L. If not, start calling her that and see how fast they switch fonts.
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Can we get an option where Game Mode is always on? The user experience should be greatly improved without even running any games.
My Nexus 5X (latest Android update available) goes into bouts of unresponsiveness sometimes. It comes back in about 2-5 minutes without a reboot, but it just goes into a coma for no reason once in a while. Most of the time it's when I wake it up - i.e. when I actually need to use it. So far I didn't get this in a critical situation, but I expect that will happen at some point - say, when I need to use Android Pay to pay for something (oops, my phone froze, sorry).
As far as hiring and firing is concerned I'm sure they could just contract Experian to keep a Work Performance score and make decisions on a bunch of parameters that you feed into their existing credit scoring framework. Based on that score you decide who to hire, who to fire, who to promote, who to demote, and how much money to offer each individual.
Want a 5% increase? Hmm... it says here you've been spending a lot of time on Slashdot _and_ that affected your productivity (thing took a week instead of two hours, and it was the only thing you had to do), so no.
Spacebar schmaizebar... Clicking on <a href="#anchor> to go to a <a name="anchor"> will hide the target row under the stupid toolbar too. Some sites use JS to scroll back the size of the toolbar to compensate, and it looks creepty as fuck when they do that.
I suffer^W enjoy ad blindness. For one reason or another I seem to lose focus each time an ad shows up, regardless of location. It just registers as a patch of noise. Now, technically, I have focus issues in general as I tend to go inside my head quite regularly, but ads seems to be the pinnacle of this syndrome.
Are optocouplers too expensive to include on motherboards now? That's what should be frying, not the whole laptop.
What do you mean? These guys named their company after a Russian stripper. Nothing to do with Tesla.
Hey, try this:
1. Mobile phone and LTE data modem (but no WiFi) on a wrist
This is the thing that takes your nano-SIM.
Must have a screen large enough to see the date and time, who's calling you, ability to answer/reject the call, and to show a bunch of notifications - no necessarily all at the same time.
Kind of like will.i.am's dial - don't put any apps or heavy computing power on it.
2. Wireless attached mini tablet (5" diagonal)
This goes in your pocket when you need to go on the Internet while commuting. It will use the watch's LTE connection or normal WiFi to get to the Internet. Can be used to read the text messages. All the usual computing power goes in here.
3. Wireless attached maxi tablet (8", 10", 12").
Same deal as the mini tablet but with a larger screen and even more oomph.
4. Wireless headphones
AKA bluetooth headphones, so you can use the phone functionality in the watch.
Sell 1+2+4 for the price of a current smartphone. Sell 1+2+3 for the price of a current LTE-connected tablet. Sell 3 for the price of a current WiFi-only tablet.
You should be able to use the speaker in 2 and 3 for speakerphone and video call functionality.
BUGS:
I don't know how all this wireless interconnection will be made to work in trade-show context - i.e. the wireless spectrum is so flooded with EM that nothing can communicate with anything, not even when very close to each other. Adding wire options to the watch, besides looking goofy, might not be an option because of available space.
When it comes to online transactions (i.e. the POS terminal talks to the bank there and then) I think that's not how it works. When you pre-order they authorise your card and keep a hold of it - they may reserve one unit of currency. Once they're ready to fulfil your order they execute the authority they obtained when you pre-ordered. If they decide to cancel then they relinquish the authority and that's the end of that.
For offline transactions (e.g. filling forms with your card details, imprint machines)... the idea is to stop having them. Charities in the UK would have to change their mail-in forms and send people to the Internet, but I have no problem with that. Cheques are gone and so should this be.
I would like to suggest that the CVV2 be removed from the card entirely and moved to a smartphone app. Something akin to Google Authenticator: scan a QR code in your online banking site to initialise the app, then get CVV2 codes on demand.
Now... there are 1000 combinations for CVV2. Generating one per hour, with zero overlap during a cycle, gives you about 41.6 days before codes are reused. In three years the codes would have been recycled 26 times, and be 1/3 into the 27th cycle. I hope the order of each cycle will be different from all the others.
Here's the new text: "The obligation of citizen to bear arms shall be enforced. Every citizen shall receive a basic weapon, and allowed to upgrade at own cost. Every citizen shall be compelled to participate in mandatory weapons training for four weekends a year."
If your rhetoric is true, this should be your objective. I took the idea for that last sentence from Switzerland who, apparently, also have lots of guns, but not anywhere near as many mentally unstable citizens. Or maybe... although they do, they know they're going against a target which is very trained in the use of firearms?
TeX bothers me too, but at least I can get away with thinking of it as 'techs', because as long as I type 'x' on my keyboard to get to it everything works out nicely. But I'm still trying to convince my brain to formulate a solution with 'ksonsh', 'ExxonSH', and other such configurations to make it easier to get it from brain to keyboard, based on how people would say the word at first sight in a few European languages. Aliasing it to 'xsh' (eks S H) might be the best idea, together with "the shell whose name we shall not say".
Nope. This is actually usable. It works like a shell, but can drop into inline Python on a whim, and that has syntactic sugar to very easily run shell commands. The more I play with it the more I feel like I'll convert to it by the middle of the week.
I'm going to guess that a multi-liner won't satisfy you.
It works like iPython: it autoindents if it notices the need, instead of submitting the command. You don't need any backslashes at the end of the line to tell it to do that. If you need to change something, you get to edit the entire block that you submitted. You'd probably use urllib* for your example. *but... as far as I can tell the urllib included with xonch isn't very functional at this time
Let's assume it will actually work in the near future: all those bash patterns would have to be rethought.
As for your example: I'm pretty sure I'd use curl or wget instead of doing what you did to begin with anyway. If it's a production script that needs to be quick (the only reason to do it your way) then it should not be a one liner and instead of <> /dev/tcp I'd pipe through 'nc' (netcat), as I'm yet to see /dev/tcp enabled by default anywhere :) Why the heck do you need the >&0 redirect anyway?
Here's how I'd do it for the same effect, but without any jumping through flaming hoops.
Remove the dollar sign and it works in 'xonch' as well.
Expect it to have its name ripped to pieces (pronounced pisces, for the heck of it). Which pronunciation guide did they use? Is there a language in the world that natively makes it sound right like that?
And Qt5 breaks code written for Qt4 which, in turn, breaks code written for Qt3. And Windows 10 breaks drivers written for Windows 8. And Linux 2.6 broke code written for Linux 2.4 which broke code written for Linux 2.2. And I'm pretty sure modern C broke code written for ye olde C.
That's what major version numbers are for: to announce Major Breakage (or possibly even General Breakage) and his mighty army of doom.
It's easy: if it's advertised on a Samsung TV, boycott it. If enough people do this, the advertisers will stop buying ad space on Samsung, and the situation will solve itself.
On the other hand, "get big in 5 seconds" ads seem to do just fine even though most people should be educated about them by now, so... yeah, the problem will still solve itself. More speedily so.
Here's a made up example: If after this, the EDL (English Defence League) rallies start yapping "We love the Muslamics* We want to give them cookies. They deserve cookies!", what then?
*just google for "edl muslamic"
They didn't patent API re-use, so prior art doesn't apply here. This lawsuit was about if this common practice was legal under copyright law or everybody just broke the law until now because nobody bothered to challenge the practice. It's like piracy in Eastern Europe: it's common, it's been happening since computers appeared around those parts - just ask Microsoft about how they got their software stronghold there, but that doesn't mean it's actually legal to get your latest Windows and films from torrent sites, even if you pretty print all your covers and fill a shelving unit just like people who buy the stuff.
If Java were 100% closed source PaaS and people reimplemented Harmony to mimic its API 100% in another cloud that isn't owned by Oracle, what would these guys say? Basically, this ruling was one between "you can reimplement other people's APIs on your own time and dime, and that's fine" and "My API! Mine! Go make your own!"
GPL isn't dead. Oracle can go implement a closed source version of the Linux kernel API just fine. Make it a drop-in replacement that is better than the GPL one and you might even make some money out of it. GNU/kOracle is perfectly valid without violating any GPL - especially under this ruling.
We could still use that floaty thing with coordinates on it though, in addition to this. I'd say to install it in such a way that it doesn't cause any airodynamic drag or anything, but separates from the aircraft in case of a water landing/crashing and goes on its merry way like a letter in a bottle to hopefully wash on a shore and be found hopefully later than never. Maybe it could inflate itself on contact with water to make it easier to spot.
It would be a bit useless on land, but land is easier to search, so that's OK.
I imagine that if MH370 were mentioned, you'd ask your question differently. The certain to float piece of garbage would probably be desirable in that case, as the large piece of aircraft is mostly at the bottom of an unexplored ocean with tiny bits that are hard to identify turning up places.
Humans are too expensive to keep, so they should be killed. Except for the rich ones, who can keep themselves and won't share their mountains of cash with the rest. They agree with the robots: "kill them! nobody touches my money!", especially in the light of the fact that "get a fucking job you lazy human" doesn't actually make sense anymore.
As opposed to "word processing, and spreadsheet"-oriented I suppose.
So, her name isn't pronounced "Goodge" in one syllable, but "Goo-guh", so it sounds like Google without the L. If not, start calling her that and see how fast they switch fonts.