If you give a tax break to low income people for the same amount of tax dollars, they will use that money as well. They are not going to set it on fire, they will use it in a grocery store.
I thought we didn't want the money to end up in grocery stores.
We wanted the money to be spent on the latest gadgets and entertainment. That's where the more interesting jobs are.
The point of keeping them in the basement is to isolate them from outside influences that might affect your results.
I thought the entire point of keeping the mices in the basements was because we could never keep the undergrads consistently in those black-mold infested basements in the first place, those undergrads would always make their way back up the stairs, or through the elevators, sneaking themselves into the faculty lounges/hall ways by entering behind someone with a card key, or simply begging someone to let them in on some bogus excuse.
So they ended up sleeping on our couches, gnawing at our food within our kitchen cabinets and our fridges, and dirtying our cleaner bathrooms with all their droppings and their marxists anti-war pro-Obama graffitis.
It just wasn't a pretty sight. It wasn't sanitary either.
"As anyone who's typed on a virtual keyboard — or yelled at a voice-control app like Siri"
It's funny he should say that, because I do type much faster on my phone than on a full-sized PC keyboard.
I just happen to be a foreigner living in the US. And for me at least, typing both in my native language and typing in English, and being able to mix and match languages at will within the same message (without switching keyboard, especially when I'm writing to family members) is absolutely critical to me. And when I need to write such an email, even if I'm already sitting at my computer in front of a message I just received, I'll still pull out my phone to type the reply on.
And I did try Swype (which was fine), but I ended up settling on SwiftKey (formerly Swift X keyboard). SwiftKey allows you to mix and match up to 3 different languages at the same time: spelling, accents, word combinations, grammars, etc. SwiftKey also learned from my existing emails, my existing facebook posts, my existing Twitter posts, my existing sms messages, etc. (assuming you give it explicit permission to use that data on your behalf, so if you train it that way, it's usable from the very first day you use it).
So it doesn't just know the spellings I like to use, but it usually knows the phrases I'm going to use before I'm even going to use them. And it does so happen that I use many of the same sentence patterns over and over again. In other words, you could describe SwiftKey as a super smart AutoCompleter/TextExpander, but even that wouldn't do the application justice. For me SwiftKeys' usability just works, that's what distinguishes it from a standard AutoComplete/Expander. Not only SwiftKey knows everything I type, most of which, it knows before I even type it myself, but its user interface doesn't interrupt my flow of type, it's an integral part of my flow, and it's the reason I can type so much faster with it.
There is one caveat thought, on my old Nexus S, Ice Cream Sandwich, SwiftKey was noticeably slower than on Gingerbread. Now that it's on Jellybeans thought, that's no longer an issue and everything is back to normal. And coming back to the comment about "Siri", for a foreigner with a strong Accent, Google Voice Search doesn't work for me at all (even if I try yelling at it), so I have that feature turned off/disabled, but I would love it if they were able to solve that problem (and I do trust Google to succeed in its voice recognition efforts before I succeed in my own effort of losing my accent).
If your definition of "getting wet" is getting fully immersed in salt water, then yes, most non-amphibian cars would have major "issues" with that.
Granted, the cars caught fire after the Hurricane ocean tide retracted, and after they had a chance to dry a little, and that was not good design, but you have to take into consideration that this line was a limited run of prototypes (and that this bad experience has most likely informed the entire industry).
Does this mean that my backups to Barracuda Networks cloud service are no longer mine? This would kill cloud services.
You should probably give a heads up to Barracuda then. If they have lawyers on staff, they may want to submit an Amicus Brief.
Even if the brief is not successful, and even the cloud markets' growth gets stunted, many of the remaining customers will naturally gravitate towards a cloud hosting provider that has the reputation of championing their customers' rights.
After all, cloud service is just a fancy term for describing (distributed) shared hosting, and nobody wants to get penalized for the actions of someone else who happens to share the same shared host as they do.
Okay, so maybe it really did happen...why the F is it on./? Nerds could care less about a truckload of nuts.
What are you talking about? A Russian man-in-the-middle attack on Nothern California's broken super highways? This has Slashdot written all over it.
Plus, this happened twice in the space of two days. This is either an inside job, or the correct purchase numbers were obtained through social engineering. Of course, the inside job theory is probably the most likely scenario, but to us Slashdoters, the possible Social engineering aspect of the theft will be the only interesting part (even if that's not what really happened).
That's not switching the job description, I'm pretty sure you sign up to be in the Air Force, I'm pretty sure they won't promise you'll be a pilot or a sniper before you sign up (maybe that it's a possibility).
Fine, disregard my Air Force example, but what about my Reservists example?
That's like signing up to work at best buy and then saying they duped you when you don't become manager.
This is true enough, may be not about Best Buy, I don't actually know that many people who dream of becoming Best Buy managers, but this does happen in other professions. For instance, in law firms, the carrot of becoming a partner usually gets bandied about for seven years, even if they know from the start that you'll never make the cut.
And this is different from the military, because the military is not some law firm you can join one day, and then quit the next as their lies get revealed to you. If you ever join the Reserves, they'll own you from that point forward. It doesn't matter if you fulfilled your contract, and retired from the military. Current events have shown that it's far more palatable to the American public to back-draft reservists into the military than to enact a mandatory draft, or to pay them actual wages super high enough that would make them want to actually go back.
Also, changing job description is not the only lie recruiters will tell you. See article below.
[...]
Last year, ABC News armed a group of high school students with hidden cameras and sent them into ten Army recruiting stations in in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, posing as potential applicants. Sadly, the Army failed this particular recruiting ethics test. More than half of the recruiters were caught on tape making what can only be kindly referred to as "misleading" statements. In other words, they lied.
One recruiter was filmed telling the applicant that his chances of being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan after basic training and job school were"slim to none." One recruiter bluntly stated that the Army wasn't sending people to Iraq anymore -- in fact, they were bringing them home. One simply said, "War? What war? The war ended years ago."
Another recruit was told he could quit the Army anytime he wanted to, just by asking, under a "failure to adapt" discharge. (Hee, hee.....Go ahead. Tell your drill sergeant you want to quit. But, make sure you tell me in advance. I want to sell tickets.)
I'd be in for that, especially if it (being those projects) could be done as moonlighting outside my regular job. That doesn't sound so bad.
If they actually pay you for it, I doubt they'd let you do it at home.
Think about it, you participate one weekend a month for sec training and preparedness drills, and take on a special project every once in a while, and get the military benefits without leaving your house.
The US military is famous for switching job descriptions once people have entered their ranks.
Many people want to be Air Force pilots for instance, so they sign up with the Air Force, but when they find that it's really too competitive to be a pilot, or they don't have the political connections to make that happen. It's too late already -- they've signed on the doted line. The same goes for State Military Reserves, most thought they were committing themselves for a limited time duration of possibly doing disaster relief work, or at most that they might fight within the US in case it ever got attacked, not they were going to fight in Iraq in a pre-emptive war, and nor did they know that their contracts could be changed indefinitely at will.
I agree completely. So the question becomes. Why does Slashdot post stories such as this one? It's only going to continue eroding its user base if it keeps on posting click-bait such as this.
I know. I'm the one who linked to that document. That document is dated July 2011, and it has been changed many times.
You don't have to believe my claim below if you don't want to. After all, I don't have the original source for what I'm claiming, so I wouldn't believe myself either if I were you, but the original document had attached an initial expiration date to the requirement of keeping those numbers unique. And for a while, devices with non-unique IMEI number were coming out of Chinese factories, and there was nothing you could do because they were just following the guidelines correctly. These were not grey market devices.
You can probably rely on the IMEI being set by the manufacturer is globally unique. The number is made up from a combination of manufacturer number, a model number, a serial number and a check digit. The ones that come from the grey market and those that have had their IMEI illegally reprogrammed, are the problem causing duplicates.
I don't believe that's the case.
From what I remember, the problem stems from IMEI spec being changed. At first they had to be unique, then they no longer needed to be unique after a certain year. Now they need to be unique again.
I realize what I'm saying sounds weird, but that's what I remember happened.
But what are those customers hoping to get anyway? Zappos received lots of bad PR because of the breach. How much more do they really want Zappos to suffer because of its incompetence?
You're right. Here is a document dating back from July 2011 (the emphasis in bold is mine).
GSMA has launched an initiative to fight mobile theft, and has worked on IMEI security best practice. GSMA and DIGITAL EUROPE members drafted and approved 2 common documents:
Technical Principles: intended to strengthen the security of the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) * GSMA Doc Reference: Security Principles Related to Handset Theft 3.0.0 * DIGITAL EUROPE CCIG Doc Reference: DIGITAL EUROPE Doc: 04cc100
Process in place: GSMA and DIGITAL EUROPE have agreed on a process to report alleged breaches of IMEI integrity and on the introduction of counter-measures to correct and improve IMEI security. * GSMA Doc Reference: IMEI Weakness and Correction Process 3.0.0 * DIGITAL EUROPE CCIG Doc Reference: DIGITAL EUROPE Doc: 04cc101
Apparently to the drafters of that document, IMEI integrity and security (whatever that means to them) is something that must be constantly monitored and maintained. And while this does not prove my original point.
As a mobile software developer, until I know what those "counter-measures" are supposed to be in the first place, I'm just going to assume that what was true 10 years ago can still be true today, and I can not completely rely on an IMEI being completely unique. So whatever software I build that takes this assumption to heart, I'll have to leave a process in place to manually override my system if that that particular edge case ever comes up.
The new database blocks the IMEI number, a unique identification number in the cellphone akin to a VIN (vehicle identification number) in a car. The ID number remains with the cellphone no matter what SIM card is used.
10% of IMEI numbers are not unique according to British Telecom. That being said in the UK at least, if your phone gets blocked by accident, there is a procedure to get it unblocked - so all is not lost for you.
I completely agree with the EFF, but I hope they're not suggesting a modal dialog. Modal dialogs get in the way. Give us a way to turn on internet search one time only, or give us a way to turn it on by default, but (aside from placing it in the control panel) ask us about that particular setting when we've just made an unsuccessful query.
...the EFF is willing to back me up with unlimited legal support when the FBI comes knocking at my door because my next door neighbors turn out to be pedos, I'm all for it.
I hope you didn't plan on giving your kids any kind of unsupervised access to the internet either.
Because in my jurisdiction at least, I'm fully liable for what my kids download (even without my permission), but I'm not liable for what my neighbors download (at least, not yet anyway).
Gross revenue only gives us a small part of the picture. Another important measure is net profits. I'm getting tired of these spin-doctored stories.
And yes, I do love my Asus Nexus 7, but I just don't believe Asus made that much money from the transaction. Initially, people even thought that Asus lost money on each Nexus 7 sold (although, that was later dis-proven after the hardware was torn down and accounted for).
it seems to me that if I were running an airline the size of United or American, eliminating the need for jet fuel as a cost would be highly appealing. So, I'm asking: what stands in the way of creating true solar-powered airliners?"
Also, reading the article the original submitter linked to (Yes, I read it. Shoot me).
Running an airline the size of United or American would require hundreds of thousands of additional pilots than they already have, since the plane shown in that article can only have one pilot and one passenger. Not to mention, the passenger and the pilot can not be too fat, they can not carry any luggage, there are no restrooms on the plane (except for an already used coke can), and they can only take off when getting pulled by a very powerful (non-solar powered) truck.
Also the article doesn't say (but my guess is that the plane has a limited range), and since they're still asking for money to complete the kickstarter project, and no pictures can be found of the plane flying anywhere, I think it's a safe assumption to make that this plane hasn't even started its first maiden voyage yet. Which I think is a very good idea. If they do try to fly the plane, it will probably crash anyway, so it was probably a wise move on their part to start the fundraising effort while the plane is still in one piece.
...explained that with the prototype chip someone could, for instance, be encrypting an email while also working on other power-intensive apps at the same time — without hiccups. Same for HD video.
It sounds to me like the LG Optimus G is already there with its quad-core Snapdragon.
I just played with one last week and I was quite amazed. The Optimus G really blew out of the water my Jellybeans Nexus 7 and my Jellybeans Galaxy Nexus with its super smooth UI and its HD video multi-tasking capabilities.
"Yes, but I was slightly misquoted, plus that was last week. A lot of things can change in a week, and today, I actually do support the drone bombing of my own country. Please keep the drones coming. Drones are very good for our economy. In a recent poll of Pakistani people. 98% approve of getting bombed by drones. And only 2% disapprove (and out of those 2%, we believe that half are terrorists, and that the other half of those 2% have just completely misunderstood the question). "
Have you noticed a shift in the types of questions we're getting as Slashdot was last purchased?
My guess is that some those questions are completely made-up and that they're based on the new owners' mistaken belief that we are all still a bunch of nerdy social retards.
And granted speaking for myself at least, I was indeed a clueless social retard, but that was around twenty years ago. And some time between twenty years ago and until now, I grew up, I grew up at least a little bit. And I suspect that many of my fellow Slashdoters have as well. And it's not that we don't have an incoming flow of teenagers frequenting our site, I'm sure that we have some. It's just that the overall tone of Slashdot has been set already, and it's going to be an uphill battle for the new owners if they really want to change that tone to the one they really believe it should be instead.
Look in the WHAT'S NEW section (since the way back machine doesn't seem to capture the Flash part). It doesn't matter which year you pick, they always seem to be launching a Windows phone of some kind, whether it's six months in advance, a year in advance, or whatever. And they do mention their Android phone launches, but just without the "Android" word, they just call them 3G phones and 4G phones, and those headlines seem to be generally much more subdued -- and much more absent from their home page (although, I'm willing to bet they have that many more actual Android phone launches than Windows phone launches).
It's also interesting to note that this guy implies that HTC is only an Android platform, when in fact, if you just take look at HTCs' actual home page.
What comes front and center of that main page is their failed HTC Windows phones and their failed 'Beats Audio' music platform, with their Android phones being relegated to the right-side menu, and completely stripped out of all Android branding, or markings (as if it had been purposefully done that way).
So if you ask me, what's dragging down HTC is not the fact that they've stopped having replaceable battery covers, and stopped having sdcard slots, in one of their lines, it's more the fact that they've repeatedly launched and relaunched Windows Phones and 'Beats Audio' -- wasting all their efforts and money on these ventures, when in fact, they should just have focused on promoting their Android offerings with one or two focused messages (that people actually cared about).
Is anyone shocked that Apple is less-than-impressed with a Microsoft product?
I still remember what they said about having a camera on tablet being akin to having a camera on a clipboard. That statement was essentially correct, and that statement was also born out of early usability testing, or so they said, but that didn't prevent them from adding a camera on their iPad the following year. The same goes for HSPA+ 4G, one day they're calling it fake-4G, but a little later, as soon as their devices are on it, they're calling it 4G again.
This is not to say that Microsofts' Surface will be successful, or not. I have no idea about that one, either way. I haven't even played with one yet.
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If you give a tax break to low income people for the same amount of tax dollars, they will use that money as well. They are not going to set it on fire, they will use it in a grocery store.
I thought we didn't want the money to end up in grocery stores.
We wanted the money to be spent on the latest gadgets and entertainment. That's where the more interesting jobs are.
The point of keeping them in the basement is to isolate them from outside influences that might affect your results.
I thought the entire point of keeping the mices in the basements was because we could never keep the undergrads consistently in those black-mold infested basements in the first place, those undergrads would always make their way back up the stairs, or through the elevators, sneaking themselves into the faculty lounges/hall ways by entering behind someone with a card key, or simply begging someone to let them in on some bogus excuse.
So they ended up sleeping on our couches, gnawing at our food within our kitchen cabinets and our fridges, and dirtying our cleaner bathrooms with all their droppings and their marxists anti-war pro-Obama graffitis.
It just wasn't a pretty sight. It wasn't sanitary either.
"As anyone who's typed on a virtual keyboard — or yelled at a voice-control app like Siri"
It's funny he should say that, because I do type much faster on my phone than on a full-sized PC keyboard.
I just happen to be a foreigner living in the US. And for me at least, typing both in my native language and typing in English, and being able to mix and match languages at will within the same message (without switching keyboard, especially when I'm writing to family members) is absolutely critical to me. And when I need to write such an email, even if I'm already sitting at my computer in front of a message I just received, I'll still pull out my phone to type the reply on.
And I did try Swype (which was fine), but I ended up settling on SwiftKey (formerly Swift X keyboard). SwiftKey allows you to mix and match up to 3 different languages at the same time: spelling, accents, word combinations, grammars, etc. SwiftKey also learned from my existing emails, my existing facebook posts, my existing Twitter posts, my existing sms messages, etc. (assuming you give it explicit permission to use that data on your behalf, so if you train it that way, it's usable from the very first day you use it).
So it doesn't just know the spellings I like to use, but it usually knows the phrases I'm going to use before I'm even going to use them. And it does so happen that I use many of the same sentence patterns over and over again. In other words, you could describe SwiftKey as a super smart AutoCompleter/TextExpander, but even that wouldn't do the application justice. For me SwiftKeys' usability just works, that's what distinguishes it from a standard AutoComplete/Expander. Not only SwiftKey knows everything I type, most of which, it knows before I even type it myself, but its user interface doesn't interrupt my flow of type, it's an integral part of my flow, and it's the reason I can type so much faster with it.
There is one caveat thought, on my old Nexus S, Ice Cream Sandwich, SwiftKey was noticeably slower than on Gingerbread. Now that it's on Jellybeans thought, that's no longer an issue and everything is back to normal. And coming back to the comment about "Siri", for a foreigner with a strong Accent, Google Voice Search doesn't work for me at all (even if I try yelling at it), so I have that feature turned off/disabled, but I would love it if they were able to solve that problem (and I do trust Google to succeed in its voice recognition efforts before I succeed in my own effort of losing my accent).
Fisker's Karmas seem to have issues with getting wet.
If your definition of "getting wet" is getting fully immersed in salt water, then yes, most non-amphibian cars would have major "issues" with that.
Granted, the cars caught fire after the Hurricane ocean tide retracted, and after they had a chance to dry a little, and that was not good design, but you have to take into consideration that this line was a limited run of prototypes (and that this bad experience has most likely informed the entire industry).
Does this mean that my backups to Barracuda Networks cloud service are no longer mine? This would kill cloud services.
You should probably give a heads up to Barracuda then. If they have lawyers on staff, they may want to submit an Amicus Brief.
Even if the brief is not successful, and even the cloud markets' growth gets stunted, many of the remaining customers will naturally gravitate towards a cloud hosting provider that has the reputation of championing their customers' rights.
After all, cloud service is just a fancy term for describing (distributed) shared hosting, and nobody wants to get penalized for the actions of someone else who happens to share the same shared host as they do.
Okay, so maybe it really did happen...why the F is it on ./?
Nerds could care less about a truckload of nuts.
What are you talking about? A Russian man-in-the-middle attack on Nothern California's broken super highways? This has Slashdot written all over it.
Plus, this happened twice in the space of two days. This is either an inside job, or the correct purchase numbers were obtained through social engineering. Of course, the inside job theory is probably the most likely scenario, but to us Slashdoters, the possible Social engineering aspect of the theft will be the only interesting part (even if that's not what really happened).
That's not switching the job description, I'm pretty sure you sign up to be in the Air Force, I'm pretty sure they won't promise you'll be a pilot or a sniper before you sign up (maybe that it's a possibility).
Fine, disregard my Air Force example, but what about my Reservists example?
That's like signing up to work at best buy and then saying they duped you when you don't become manager.
This is true enough, may be not about Best Buy, I don't actually know that many people who dream of becoming Best Buy managers, but this does happen in other professions. For instance, in law firms, the carrot of becoming a partner usually gets bandied about for seven years, even if they know from the start that you'll never make the cut.
And this is different from the military, because the military is not some law firm you can join one day, and then quit the next as their lies get revealed to you. If you ever join the Reserves, they'll own you from that point forward. It doesn't matter if you fulfilled your contract, and retired from the military. Current events have shown that it's far more palatable to the American public to back-draft reservists into the military than to enact a mandatory draft, or to pay them actual wages super high enough that would make them want to actually go back.
Also, changing job description is not the only lie recruiters will tell you. See article below.
[...]
Last year, ABC News armed a group of high school students with hidden cameras and sent them into ten Army recruiting stations in in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, posing as potential applicants. Sadly, the Army failed this particular recruiting ethics test. More than half of the recruiters were caught on tape making what can only be kindly referred to as "misleading" statements. In other words, they lied.
One recruiter was filmed telling the applicant that his chances of being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan after basic training and job school were"slim to none." One recruiter bluntly stated that the Army wasn't sending people to Iraq anymore -- in fact, they were bringing them home. One simply said, "War? What war? The war ended years ago."
Another recruit was told he could quit the Army anytime he wanted to, just by asking, under a "failure to adapt" discharge. (Hee, hee.....Go ahead. Tell your drill sergeant you want to quit. But, make sure you tell me in advance. I want to sell tickets.)
[...]
Top Ten Lies Told by Recruiters
I'd be in for that, especially if it (being those projects) could be done as moonlighting outside my regular job. That doesn't sound so bad.
If they actually pay you for it, I doubt they'd let you do it at home.
Think about it, you participate one weekend a month for sec training and preparedness drills, and take on a special project every once in a while, and get the military benefits without leaving your house.
The US military is famous for switching job descriptions once people have entered their ranks.
Many people want to be Air Force pilots for instance, so they sign up with the Air Force, but when they find that it's really too competitive to be a pilot, or they don't have the political connections to make that happen. It's too late already -- they've signed on the doted line. The same goes for State Military Reserves, most thought they were committing themselves for a limited time duration of possibly doing disaster relief work, or at most that they might fight within the US in case it ever got attacked, not they were going to fight in Iraq in a pre-emptive war, and nor did they know that their contracts could be changed indefinitely at will.
I agree completely. So the question becomes. Why does Slashdot post stories such as this one? It's only going to continue eroding its user base if it keeps on posting click-bait such as this.
I know. I'm the one who linked to that document. That document is dated July 2011, and it has been changed many times.
You don't have to believe my claim below if you don't want to. After all, I don't have the original source for what I'm claiming, so I wouldn't believe myself either if I were you, but the original document had attached an initial expiration date to the requirement of keeping those numbers unique. And for a while, devices with non-unique IMEI number were coming out of Chinese factories, and there was nothing you could do because they were just following the guidelines correctly. These were not grey market devices.
You can probably rely on the IMEI being set by the manufacturer is globally unique. The number is made up from a combination of manufacturer number, a model number, a serial number and a check digit. The ones that come from the grey market and those that have had their IMEI illegally reprogrammed, are the problem causing duplicates.
I don't believe that's the case.
From what I remember, the problem stems from IMEI spec being changed. At first they had to be unique, then they no longer needed to be unique after a certain year. Now they need to be unique again.
I realize what I'm saying sounds weird, but that's what I remember happened.
I agree. TOS are stupid.
But what are those customers hoping to get anyway? Zappos received lots of bad PR because of the breach. How much more do they really want Zappos to suffer because of its incompetence?
You're right. Here is a document dating back from July 2011 (the emphasis in bold is mine).
GSMA has launched an initiative to fight mobile theft, and has worked on IMEI security best
practice. GSMA and DIGITAL EUROPE members drafted and approved 2 common
documents:
Technical Principles: intended to strengthen the security of the International Mobile
Equipment Identity (IMEI)
* GSMA Doc Reference: Security Principles Related to Handset Theft 3.0.0
* DIGITAL EUROPE CCIG Doc Reference: DIGITAL EUROPE Doc: 04cc100
Process in place: GSMA and DIGITAL EUROPE have agreed on a process to report alleged
breaches of IMEI integrity and on the introduction of counter-measures to correct and
improve IMEI security.
* GSMA Doc Reference: IMEI Weakness and Correction Process 3.0.0
* DIGITAL EUROPE CCIG Doc Reference: DIGITAL EUROPE Doc: 04cc101
Apparently to the drafters of that document, IMEI integrity and security (whatever that means to them) is something that must be constantly monitored and maintained. And while this does not prove my original point.
As a mobile software developer, until I know what those "counter-measures" are supposed to be in the first place, I'm just going to assume that what was true 10 years ago can still be true today, and I can not completely rely on an IMEI being completely unique. So whatever software I build that takes this assumption to heart, I'll have to leave a process in place to manually override my system if that that particular edge case ever comes up.
The new database blocks the IMEI number, a unique identification number in the cellphone akin to a VIN (vehicle identification number) in a car. The ID number remains with the cellphone no matter what SIM card is used.
10% of IMEI numbers are not unique according to British Telecom. That being said in the UK at least, if your phone gets blocked by accident, there is a procedure to get it unblocked - so all is not lost for you.
I completely agree with the EFF, but I hope they're not suggesting a modal dialog. Modal dialogs get in the way. Give us a way to turn on internet search one time only, or give us a way to turn it on by default, but (aside from placing it in the control panel) ask us about that particular setting when we've just made an unsuccessful query.
...the EFF is willing to back me up with unlimited legal support when the FBI comes knocking at my door because my next door neighbors turn out to be pedos, I'm all for it.
I hope you didn't plan on giving your kids any kind of unsupervised access to the internet either.
Because in my jurisdiction at least, I'm fully liable for what my kids download (even without my permission), but I'm not liable for what my neighbors download (at least, not yet anyway).
Gross revenue only gives us a small part of the picture. Another important measure is net profits. I'm getting tired of these spin-doctored stories.
And yes, I do love my Asus Nexus 7, but I just don't believe Asus made that much money from the transaction. Initially, people even thought that Asus lost money on each Nexus 7 sold (although, that was later dis-proven after the hardware was torn down and accounted for).
it seems to me that if I were running an airline the size of United or American, eliminating the need for jet fuel as a cost would be highly appealing. So, I'm asking: what stands in the way of creating true solar-powered airliners?"
Also, reading the article the original submitter linked to (Yes, I read it. Shoot me).
Running an airline the size of United or American would require hundreds of thousands of additional pilots than they already have, since the plane shown in that article can only have one pilot and one passenger. Not to mention, the passenger and the pilot can not be too fat, they can not carry any luggage, there are no restrooms on the plane (except for an already used coke can), and they can only take off when getting pulled by a very powerful (non-solar powered) truck.
Also the article doesn't say (but my guess is that the plane has a limited range), and since they're still asking for money to complete the kickstarter project, and no pictures can be found of the plane flying anywhere, I think it's a safe assumption to make that this plane hasn't even started its first maiden voyage yet. Which I think is a very good idea. If they do try to fly the plane, it will probably crash anyway, so it was probably a wise move on their part to start the fundraising effort while the plane is still in one piece.
...explained that with the prototype chip someone could, for instance, be encrypting an email while also working on other power-intensive apps at the same time — without hiccups. Same for HD video.
It sounds to me like the LG Optimus G is already there with its quad-core Snapdragon.
I just played with one last week and I was quite amazed. The Optimus G really blew out of the water my Jellybeans Nexus 7 and my Jellybeans Galaxy Nexus with its super smooth UI and its HD video multi-tasking capabilities.
What was the right answer I wonder?
"Yes, but I was slightly misquoted, plus that was last week. A lot of things can change in a week, and today, I actually do support the drone bombing of my own country. Please keep the drones coming. Drones are very good for our economy. In a recent poll of Pakistani people. 98% approve of getting bombed by drones. And only 2% disapprove (and out of those 2%, we believe that half are terrorists, and that the other half of those 2% have just completely misunderstood the question). "
Are you insane?
Have you noticed a shift in the types of questions we're getting as Slashdot was last purchased?
My guess is that some those questions are completely made-up and that they're based on the new owners' mistaken belief that we are all still a bunch of nerdy social retards.
And granted speaking for myself at least, I was indeed a clueless social retard, but that was around twenty years ago. And some time between twenty years ago and until now, I grew up, I grew up at least a little bit. And I suspect that many of my fellow Slashdoters have as well. And it's not that we don't have an incoming flow of teenagers frequenting our site, I'm sure that we have some. It's just that the overall tone of Slashdot has been set already, and it's going to be an uphill battle for the new owners if they really want to change that tone to the one they really believe it should be instead.
The 'current' home page design could also be largely a result of the fact that Windows Phone 8 is launching right now....
Go ahead, pick a date -- any date: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://htc.com
Look in the WHAT'S NEW section (since the way back machine doesn't seem to capture the Flash part). It doesn't matter which year you pick, they always seem to be launching a Windows phone of some kind, whether it's six months in advance, a year in advance, or whatever. And they do mention their Android phone launches, but just without the "Android" word, they just call them 3G phones and 4G phones, and those headlines seem to be generally much more subdued -- and much more absent from their home page (although, I'm willing to bet they have that many more actual Android phone launches than Windows phone launches).
It's also interesting to note that this guy implies that HTC is only an Android platform, when in fact, if you just take look at HTCs' actual home page.
What comes front and center of that main page is their failed HTC Windows phones and their failed 'Beats Audio' music platform, with their Android phones being relegated to the right-side menu, and completely stripped out of all Android branding, or markings (as if it had been purposefully done that way).
So if you ask me, what's dragging down HTC is not the fact that they've stopped having replaceable battery covers, and stopped having sdcard slots, in one of their lines, it's more the fact that they've repeatedly launched and relaunched Windows Phones and 'Beats Audio' -- wasting all their efforts and money on these ventures, when in fact, they should just have focused on promoting their Android offerings with one or two focused messages (that people actually cared about).
Is anyone shocked that Apple is less-than-impressed with a Microsoft product?
I still remember what they said about having a camera on tablet being akin to having a camera on a clipboard. That statement was essentially correct, and that statement was also born out of early usability testing, or so they said, but that didn't prevent them from adding a camera on their iPad the following year. The same goes for HSPA+ 4G, one day they're calling it fake-4G, but a little later, as soon as their devices are on it, they're calling it 4G again.
This is not to say that Microsofts' Surface will be successful, or not. I have no idea about that one, either way. I haven't even played with one yet.
Therefore, they've made it as highly specifically technical and narrow to their lawyers' interpretation of the judge's order as possible.
That's a relief...
For a moment there, I thought that Steve Jobs had been brought back to life.