A great news to many is that old unsecure plugin interfaces are not supported at all: VML, VBScript, Toolbars, BHOs, and ActiveX are all nuked from the orbit.
I take it this also eliminates any existing ad blockers? Is there an alternative plugin mechanism that would allow for new ad blockers?
Causation is hard to identify in your example though: does smoking pot encourage teens to drop out; or are the teens that are on track to drop out, more likely to smoke pot?
That's part of the tragedy of the ISP filtering though. While the more tech-savvy parents will recognise that the filters are - at best - a partial solution, other parents will be given a false sense of security.
the connection owners have to call in to turn the filter off.
I've used BT as an ISP, and the filter option came up as a web page after signing in (I was signing in to watch their BT sport channel, but I assume if you signed in for e.g. the admin site, it would have appeared). I hadn't noticed any blocked sites prior to disabling it, but the option to enable or disable the filter may have appeared prior to it defaulting to being on. One click, and the filter was off, so disabling it really doesn't add much hassle to the end user. I don't doubt the implementation was a lot of hassle at their end, however.
Well this is just EMACS circa 2014. But instead of elisp we have Javascript. And instead of the emacs-platfrom-which-has-no-name we have a browser.
Anyway, here's a few lines from my top window:
13226 user 20 0 902280 187184 27300 S 0.0 18.3 57:49.63 firefox
26114 user 20 0 35532 8680 4344 S 0.0 0.9 0:12.53 gvim
see the difference?
(but hey it's in a browser so it's officially cloud and webscale and at least web 3.1.0-RC2)
It doesn't run in the browser - it's a standalone app. FWIW, it's using 5.7Mb on my computer at the moment - while emacs is using 41.2Mb. Your emacs analogy is perhaps more apt than you realise though: it's essentially emacs using HTML/javascript/CSS instead of lisp.
App stores do this for apps installed via the store; the difference here is that Windows is doing it for every app being installed whether via an app store or not.
OK I looked up the data. Nokia got €800m from Apple and is to receive further royalties of €8 per iPhone sold. Apple is currently doing about 35m phones per quarter so something is definitely wrong since Apple alone is paying more than.5b. Though not the $1.5-2b I had heard either, sort of down the middle.
Could be that the 0.5b figure is there net patent income - they may be spending a fair bit on licencing from other companies.
Firstly, this is a Daily Fail story - take with a large pinch of salt. As shown in the Leveson inquiry, they're happy to run "Organisation wants to ban something" story one day, then "Our campaign has forced organisation to back down" the next - despite no such banning effort happening. In addition, they do have a "anything invented after 1900 is suspicious" agenda.
Secondly, if the Red Cross actually are debating this, perhaps it's in an effort to revise International Humanitarian Law to keep up with the times, inasmuch as International Humanitarian Law actually exists.
The reason Blade Runner was a great film was precisely because they made a film using concepts from the book, but didn't slavishly follow the text (Watchmen, I'm looking at you here). Don't think the plot followed the original book closely enough for the sequel to the book to make sense as the sequel to the film.
I haven't read the book Bladerunner 2, by the way - I retract the above if it was a follow up to the film, rather than "Do Androids Dream..."
For me, spotlight became much more useful when I discovered you can use it from the command line - mdfind. The man page is a must to use it well, of course.
It's a pet hate of mine that the minimise/maximise buttons are beside the close window buttons on pretty much every window manager on pretty much every OS. It just seems obvious to me to have minimise/maximise on one side and close on the other so there's less risk of closing a window by accident.
It can be changed on KDE (and I see in the other replies it can be done in gnome as well), but it shouldn't need to be.
Yes, well, however, suitable donors make very unlikely receivers (or is it "acceptors"?).
Is that true? I can certainly believe it for a single organ ("suitable heart donors make very unlikely heart receivers"), but I would expect that at least some of the other organs would be viable in most cases?
Now I do have a complaint that Apple decided to cripple Quicktime so if you want to do anything useful with it you have to buy Quicktime Pro. That's annoying. It costs as much as the Snow Leopard upgrade.
Quicktime pro was abandoned when quicktime X came out - although I don't think there's a windows version of quicktime X, it is built in to Snow Leopard so is included in that Snow Leopard upgrade.
Sadly, not going to happen though. Big companies aren't going to throw away their existing applications, so need a version of windows. They won't be able to get XP any more, so the choice will be Vista or Windows 7; also known as rock or hard place. Nonetheless, they will pick one of them.
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Chance would be a fine thing:. I have a two year old android phone so no chance of an OS update.
And that might be the push needed for me to try out IceCat (formerly IceWeasel) https://www.gnu.org/software/g...
A great news to many is that old unsecure plugin interfaces are not supported at all: VML, VBScript, Toolbars, BHOs, and ActiveX are all nuked from the orbit.
I take it this also eliminates any existing ad blockers? Is there an alternative plugin mechanism that would allow for new ad blockers?
Causation is hard to identify in your example though: does smoking pot encourage teens to drop out; or are the teens that are on track to drop out, more likely to smoke pot?
That's part of the tragedy of the ISP filtering though. While the more tech-savvy parents will recognise that the filters are - at best - a partial solution, other parents will be given a false sense of security.
the connection owners have to call in to turn the filter off.
I've used BT as an ISP, and the filter option came up as a web page after signing in (I was signing in to watch their BT sport channel, but I assume if you signed in for e.g. the admin site, it would have appeared). I hadn't noticed any blocked sites prior to disabling it, but the option to enable or disable the filter may have appeared prior to it defaulting to being on. One click, and the filter was off, so disabling it really doesn't add much hassle to the end user. I don't doubt the implementation was a lot of hassle at their end, however.
Well this is just EMACS circa 2014. But instead of elisp we have Javascript. And instead of the emacs-platfrom-which-has-no-name we have a browser.
Anyway, here's a few lines from my top window: 13226 user 20 0 902280 187184 27300 S 0.0 18.3 57:49.63 firefox 26114 user 20 0 35532 8680 4344 S 0.0 0.9 0:12.53 gvim
see the difference?
(but hey it's in a browser so it's officially cloud and webscale and at least web 3.1.0-RC2)
It doesn't run in the browser - it's a standalone app. FWIW, it's using 5.7Mb on my computer at the moment - while emacs is using 41.2Mb. Your emacs analogy is perhaps more apt than you realise though: it's essentially emacs using HTML/javascript/CSS instead of lisp.
Wonder if he was including dial up ISPs?
App stores do this for apps installed via the store; the difference here is that Windows is doing it for every app being installed whether via an app store or not.
OK I looked up the data. Nokia got €800m from Apple and is to receive further royalties of €8 per iPhone sold. Apple is currently doing about 35m phones per quarter so something is definitely wrong since Apple alone is paying more than .5b. Though not the $1.5-2b I had heard either, sort of down the middle.
Could be that the 0.5b figure is there net patent income - they may be spending a fair bit on licencing from other companies.
I think the Lousiana schools are ignoring important documentary footage of the family of Nessie from the 80s, as described here.
Firstly, this is a Daily Fail story - take with a large pinch of salt. As shown in the Leveson inquiry, they're happy to run "Organisation wants to ban something" story one day, then "Our campaign has forced organisation to back down" the next - despite no such banning effort happening. In addition, they do have a "anything invented after 1900 is suspicious" agenda. Secondly, if the Red Cross actually are debating this, perhaps it's in an effort to revise International Humanitarian Law to keep up with the times, inasmuch as International Humanitarian Law actually exists.
Don't the human umpires rely on optical sensors?
Could you (or some other kind soul) send an invite to: hdyson@gmail.com Thanks!
I'd be grateful for an invite too. Thanks!
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I haven't read the book Bladerunner 2, by the way - I retract the above if it was a follow up to the film, rather than "Do Androids Dream..."
For me, spotlight became much more useful when I discovered you can use it from the command line - mdfind. The man page is a must to use it well, of course.
It can be changed on KDE (and I see in the other replies it can be done in gnome as well), but it shouldn't need to be.
The question isn't why, but how.
I'm tired of this trope being repeated without evidence. Care to provide some?
Yes, well, however, suitable donors make very unlikely receivers (or is it "acceptors"?).
Is that true? I can certainly believe it for a single organ ("suitable heart donors make very unlikely heart receivers"), but I would expect that at least some of the other organs would be viable in most cases?
Now I do have a complaint that Apple decided to cripple Quicktime so if you want to do anything useful with it you have to buy Quicktime Pro. That's annoying. It costs as much as the Snow Leopard upgrade.
Quicktime pro was abandoned when quicktime X came out - although I don't think there's a windows version of quicktime X, it is built in to Snow Leopard so is included in that Snow Leopard upgrade.
Sadly, not going to happen though. Big companies aren't going to throw away their existing applications, so need a version of windows. They won't be able to get XP any more, so the choice will be Vista or Windows 7; also known as rock or hard place. Nonetheless, they will pick one of them.
here.