I've had my iRiver for about 7 years now and it's still pretty happy. Sure, it's big and clunky and one day the HDD will fail, but when it does, I reckon I'll just put in a new one and carry on.
I much prefer having my phone separate to my MP3 player, simply because the battery life is better and also that when I'm listening to a song I don't have it disturbed by an incoming call from a recruitment agent.
I really hope this passes. It'll be interesting to see all the stuff that I thought I'd deleted off Facebook suddenly reappear* so that I can actually remove it permanently.
*Apparently FB doesn't actually delete anything and it's just hidden from the user.
This is a nice idea, but surely the condition of the device matters too? I'm sure a cracked iPhone 4S wouldn't be worth as much as one in mint condition.
What do these recycling companies do with these phones anyway?
I'm constantly told to not lock my bag because otherwise it'll be ripped open by the security staff to search it. I don't lock it to stop the security staff getting in, I lock it to stop the lighter fingered baggage handlers from having a quick rummage.
Besides, if someone wants to get into your luggage, they'll get into luggage.
What's the point of running an advert in your News Feed for, say, Ben and Jerry's if you already Like it? You're the only one who'll see it and since you already like it, they're not encouraging anyone else to try their product.
What FB wants to do is show adverts for things you like in your friends News Feeds.
I guess you haven't seen the trailers yet. It's a tired, run of the mill FPS, most likely featuring an emphasis on multiplayer and a 4 - 5 hour campaign tacked on at the last minute.
News anchor 1: "...The 24 hour shut down is in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act."
News anchor 2: "And in other news, thousands of students across the world have delayed handing in their homework by 24 hours, claiming that they need the extra time to make finishing touches to their work."
Just in case anyone hasn't noticed, Google are celebrating by making selected apps are available for 10 cents for the next few days (it started a few days ago so there's something like 7 days to go).
The selection changes each day so it's worth having a look. I picked up Toki Tori today.
1. Project is developed in-house. 2. Management notice that though the quality of the project is good, it's too costly and by outsourcing it, they'll reduce the budget by 90%. 3. Project is developed overseas, usually India. 4. Management notice that the quality of the project is extremely poor and decide to bring it in-house even though it will cost them 10 times as much. 5. Goto 1.
Hatred towards Ubuntu seems to be focused on Unity and Gnome.
I use Kubuntu LTS and am more than happy with it. Sure, the LTS is pretty far behind (still on Firefox 3.6), but I don't have any real gripes besides this.
From the looks of things Mint supports KDE, but is there any real reason to jump ship?
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I've had my iRiver for about 7 years now and it's still pretty happy. Sure, it's big and clunky and one day the HDD will fail, but when it does, I reckon I'll just put in a new one and carry on.
I much prefer having my phone separate to my MP3 player, simply because the battery life is better and also that when I'm listening to a song I don't have it disturbed by an incoming call from a recruitment agent.
(Your) pcEverywhere
I really hope this passes. It'll be interesting to see all the stuff that I thought I'd deleted off Facebook suddenly reappear* so that I can actually remove it permanently.
*Apparently FB doesn't actually delete anything and it's just hidden from the user.
"Oh for fuck's sake, where are the preferences?"
*ping*
"Oh, there they are."
Sopa is a piece of shit!
Ha, I see what you did there:
SOPA reversed is APOS, which stands for A Piece Of Shit.
Clever, even if you didn't intend it to be.
This is a nice idea, but surely the condition of the device matters too? I'm sure a cracked iPhone 4S wouldn't be worth as much as one in mint condition.
What do these recycling companies do with these phones anyway?
I'm constantly told to not lock my bag because otherwise it'll be ripped open by the security staff to search it. I don't lock it to stop the security staff getting in, I lock it to stop the lighter fingered baggage handlers from having a quick rummage.
Besides, if someone wants to get into your luggage, they'll get into luggage.
What's the point of running an advert in your News Feed for, say, Ben and Jerry's if you already Like it? You're the only one who'll see it and since you already like it, they're not encouraging anyone else to try their product.
What FB wants to do is show adverts for things you like in your friends News Feeds.
Shit :(
and is not yet designed for use to create production applications.
Too late, it's already been added to the next Ubuntu release :P
Lately he's been trouble speaking due to weakened cheek muscles (down to one word per minute).
I see Slashdot's come up with a simple solution that just involves skipping words that don't seem necessary :)
will insulate its citizens from Western ideology and un-Islamic culture
No wonder atheism is on the rise. Religion was a great idea a thousand years ago, but it's time it was consigned to the history books.
I hope it's just as good.
I guess you haven't seen the trailers yet. It's a tired, run of the mill FPS, most likely featuring an emphasis on multiplayer and a 4 - 5 hour campaign tacked on at the last minute.
Australia is right to ban this travesty.
Canonical will see a not insignificant number of Ubuntu users migrate over to Mint Linux.
PS4 and the next Xbox will be announced at E3, to be released in 2013.
Facebook will experience its first notable slump in active users.
it completely abandons geeky stuff like NoScript or Adblock
Oh boy, now I can enjoy adverts featuring rotten teeth and modal popups that insist I "like" them on Facebook again!
Seriously, if I wanted to put up with this crap I'd go back to using IE.
News anchor 1: "...The 24 hour shut down is in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act."
News anchor 2: "And in other news, thousands of students across the world have delayed handing in their homework by 24 hours, claiming that they need the extra time to make finishing touches to their work."
OEMS: I takes time to integrate our own buggy, irremovable software into the kernel.
Just in case anyone hasn't noticed, Google are celebrating by making selected apps are available for 10 cents for the next few days (it started a few days ago so there's something like 7 days to go).
The selection changes each day so it's worth having a look. I picked up Toki Tori today.
But generally, this is what happens:
1. Project is developed in-house.
2. Management notice that though the quality of the project is good, it's too costly and by outsourcing it, they'll reduce the budget by 90%.
3. Project is developed overseas, usually India.
4. Management notice that the quality of the project is extremely poor and decide to bring it in-house even though it will cost them 10 times as much.
5. Goto 1.
When Firefox appeared on the scene, it gave Microsoft the kick up the arse it needed to improve their crappy, aging browser.
When Chrome appeared on the scene, it gave Mozilla the kick up the arse it needed to improve their crappy, aging browser.
It'll be interesting to see if the same thing happens in a few years with IE.
What Braben and Bell did to get this running on the BBC makes for pretty interesting reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)#Technical_innovations
Yes it is! Look on the map, it's just to the right of Germany...
That's Australia! People always get those two countries confused.
Wouldn't it be great if the minutes from the hearing were typed up in OpenOffice :)
I want to have a guess! It would probably have been something relevant to what they do, and then they'd have removed the vowels (cunning), so:
wtr
Hatred towards Ubuntu seems to be focused on Unity and Gnome.
I use Kubuntu LTS and am more than happy with it. Sure, the LTS is pretty far behind (still on Firefox 3.6), but I don't have any real gripes besides this.
From the looks of things Mint supports KDE, but is there any real reason to jump ship?
Now we get to watch endless reality and talent shows in a different way.
I can't wait!