The fact that English has become the word's language has nothing to do with its ease of learning.
Care to explain why ?
You would certainly agree that a language that is hard to learn has fewer chances to be used all around the world ? Hence, being easier to learn surely helps (even if there may be other reasons).
Apple also introduced expensive adaptators for VGA and HDMI ($79). I was shocked by the price, but at the same time they lowered the price of an Apple TV to $69, which makes it the chepeast way to connect a new MacBook to a TV.
Too bad you didn't step up to the plate and become the maintainer, when Google offered to give the source code away to anyone who wanted to run their own "Google Reader" service.
It is not a problem of code, it is a problem of providing the service
I guess you maybe couldn't figure out a revenue model for the damn thing, either?
Twitter will shrink dramatically or disappear entirely as the video capabilities of higher bandwidth and newer/denser technologies make written dialogue even more irrelevant than it is today.
Written dialogue will never be completely replaced by video, because it can be consumed much more quickly.
Running Bittorent over Tor is a bad idea. As the linked article says, look at I2P instead.
But it would be fine to run your browser over Tor in order to get the torrent magnet link, and then use the "normal" network with your favorite torrent application to get the actual file ?
The value is not in the code but rather in the developers. I challenge you to take a few of your friends take the current version of cyanogen mod and get it working on the next Samsung phone when it gets released.
You are totally right. I could not do it, but the current CyanogenMod could easily fork it after having cashed Google's Money.
This exactly what happened with MySQL in 2008 : Monty Widenius sold it to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion. He then left to start MariaDB, a MySQL fork.
I don't think that Google is stupid or desperate enough to spend $1 billion on a company having only brilliant developers but no IP.
I hate, hate, hate, hate large phones. If I needed a bigger screen, I'll pull out my tablet or my laptop. I'm a skinny guy, I wear tight-ish jeans (fiance hates it, but I gotta be me), and pulling a big-ass phone out of my front pocket is a pain in my ass, and that's with an IPhone 5S.
I'm going to pass on the 6 and hope they come out with a traditional-sized one for the 6S or 7.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think that Apple wants us to have a large phone in our bag and an Apple Watch at the wrist.
I would not hold my breath for an iPhone 6s (with "s" for "small").
I see no reason why Apple felt it necessary to slim the device down even more - when they could have just had the same thickness as the 5/5S resulting in no silly bulge for the camera.
Plus, they could have put a bigger battery in the case and maybe get an hour or so extra time out of the thing. Which I can imagine would be a lot more useful than shaving a couple mm off an already perfectly slim enough phone.
Did you consider weight ? The iPhone 5s weights 112 grams, versus 129 grams for the iPhone 6. Apple certainly didn't want to make it heavier.
And I don't even mention the monstrous iPhone 6 Plus...
I am very happy with my iPhone 5s. My ideal phone would be a 5s with NFC.
I'm not a giant Apple fan, but one thing that I actually liked about their strategy up to this point was keeping their phones smaller.
Same here. My iPhone 5S is great, but I wouldn't want it to be bigger. I guess I will need to wait one year before seing an iPhone 6C (with "C" as in "Compact").
"+" or plenty of other special characters. Stuff like quotes can even be valid if used properly, while we still have some website that won't even accept a dash/underscore.
I had to wait nearly 10 years for my ".name" domain to be accepted by most websites (say, 99.5%).
For "+" or other funny characters, my estimate is that you will need at least 10 years starting from now.
My e-mail address ends with the suffix ".name". It is perfectly correct (even if not common), but I still sometimes have issues today because some stupid website has an outdated regular expression which says that ".name" is not correct.
Now imagine this with non-latin characters (or just non-ASCII characters)... If you only write to people also using GMail, it might work.
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For home use, I'm sure this is going to be disabled quickly - just like the firewall.
Yes, but it requires a deliberate action from the user, who shouldn't be surprised if problems then happen...
A compromise would be to record it on a 15 minutes circular buffer. No privacy issue, except in case of crash.
The Express Edition of MS SQL Server is pretty damn good for 99% of the deployments you would consider MySQL for, and its free.
It is not free, its price is included in the Windows Server licence.
- Kids can use it (for instance when you don't want to have to pick up your kids at their soccer training)
- Older persons can use it when they are not able to drive anymore
- When you get home at 3 AM half drunk
The fact that English has become the word's language has nothing to do with its ease of learning.
Care to explain why ?
You would certainly agree that a language that is hard to learn has fewer chances to be used all around the world ? Hence, being easier to learn surely helps (even if there may be other reasons).
It's just a pity that the world's de-facto common language (English) is so hard to learn well...
I disagree; English is relatively easy to learn, therefore it has become the world's de-facto common language.
Besides, any language (except maybe Esperanto ?) is hard to learn well...
Apple also introduced expensive adaptators for VGA and HDMI ($79). I was shocked by the price, but at the same time they lowered the price of an Apple TV to $69, which makes it the chepeast way to connect a new MacBook to a TV.
Coincidence ?
Too bad you didn't step up to the plate and become the maintainer, when Google offered to give the source code away to anyone who wanted to run their own "Google Reader" service.
It is not a problem of code, it is a problem of providing the service
I guess you maybe couldn't figure out a revenue model for the damn thing, either?
Feedly seems to have found it...
I miss Google Reader, their RSS reader.
By the way, 90% of these projects don't ring any bell.
use Sharepoint's (base version is free beer)
The base version Sharepoint is not free, it is included in the Windows Server license you need to buy. And don't forget the SQL Server Licence.
The fact that he is atheist has nothing to do with the story. Why mention it?
This says a lot more about the nationality of the author of the summary than about the new Greek PM...
Alexis Tsipras : radical left, engineer, European, has 2 kids but is unmarried. It would be a big surprise if he would be religious...
Twitter will shrink dramatically or disappear entirely as the video capabilities of higher bandwidth and newer/denser technologies make written dialogue even more irrelevant than it is today.
Written dialogue will never be completely replaced by video, because it can be consumed much more quickly.
I agree with you for the rest, though.
Running Bittorent over Tor is a bad idea. As the linked article says, look at I2P instead.
But it would be fine to run your browser over Tor in order to get the torrent magnet link, and then use the "normal" network with your favorite torrent application to get the actual file ?
This is an absolutely fantastic idea.
Good enough for me.
a couple corrections to your inaccuracies (intentional?): * iphones back up automatically to icloud.
By default only. Mine doesn't.
The value is not in the code but rather in the developers. I challenge you to take a few of your friends take the current version of cyanogen mod and get it working on the next Samsung phone when it gets released.
You are totally right. I could not do it, but the current CyanogenMod could easily fork it after having cashed Google's Money.
This exactly what happened with MySQL in 2008 : Monty Widenius sold it to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion. He then left to start MariaDB, a MySQL fork.
I don't think that Google is stupid or desperate enough to spend $1 billion on a company having only brilliant developers but no IP.
CyanogenMod being open source, what is the value of such a company ? Once bought by Google, anybody could fork CyanogenMod...
I hate, hate, hate, hate large phones. If I needed a bigger screen, I'll pull out my tablet or my laptop. I'm a skinny guy, I wear tight-ish jeans (fiance hates it, but I gotta be me), and pulling a big-ass phone out of my front pocket is a pain in my ass, and that's with an IPhone 5S.
I'm going to pass on the 6 and hope they come out with a traditional-sized one for the 6S or 7.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think that Apple wants us to have a large phone in our bag and an Apple Watch at the wrist.
I would not hold my breath for an iPhone 6s (with "s" for "small").
I see no reason why Apple felt it necessary to slim the device down even more - when they could have just had the same thickness as the 5/5S resulting in no silly bulge for the camera.
Plus, they could have put a bigger battery in the case and maybe get an hour or so extra time out of the thing. Which I can imagine would be a lot more useful than shaving a couple mm off an already perfectly slim enough phone.
Did you consider weight ? The iPhone 5s weights 112 grams, versus 129 grams for the iPhone 6. Apple certainly didn't want to make it heavier. And I don't even mention the monstrous iPhone 6 Plus...
I am very happy with my iPhone 5s. My ideal phone would be a 5s with NFC.
I'm not a giant Apple fan, but one thing that I actually liked about their strategy up to this point was keeping their phones smaller.
Same here. My iPhone 5S is great, but I wouldn't want it to be bigger. I guess I will need to wait one year before seing an iPhone 6C (with "C" as in "Compact").
It's not stupid website. It's just stupid 4 char tld that shouldn't exist according to the standards.
Please show me in RFC 1035 where you see this 3 letter limitation.
By the way, the ".arpa" pseudo-domain has always existed.
There are myriad of validators out there that will reject it
No, most validators correctly implement the standard, only a handfew are incorrect.
they worked well for decades.
Something on the web that worked well for decades has necessarily been enhanced at some point...
Then it means that 60% from this list have terrorist ties ? Good result.
"+" or plenty of other special characters. Stuff like quotes can even be valid if used properly, while we still have some website that won't even accept a dash/underscore.
I had to wait nearly 10 years for my ".name" domain to be accepted by most websites (say, 99.5%).
For "+" or other funny characters, my estimate is that you will need at least 10 years starting from now.
I would not hold my breath.
My e-mail address ends with the suffix ".name". It is perfectly correct (even if not common), but I still sometimes have issues today because some stupid website has an outdated regular expression which says that ".name" is not correct.
Now imagine this with non-latin characters (or just non-ASCII characters)... If you only write to people also using GMail, it might work.
From TFA : Breaks Traffic Inspection
One good reason to use it !