No, if they sold you a broken laptop three years ago, they should have replaced it three years ago. They didn't, so you had to sue. And probably buy a new one, which they arguably should re-imburse you for. Giving you a laptop now is an insult (you probably don't want another one) and giving you one you can't even resell to recover most of those losses is adding injury.
That's pretty close. It's different in that I don't think "fishes" can combine with a numeral, so you don't have a difference in meaning in an otherwise identical environment. "He ate two fishes" sounds wrong to me, while I'd accept "several types of fishes" (though I'd still be more comfortable with "several types of fish"). However I can well imagine some people feeling fine with "two fishes".
Odd that it seems to work better with fish(es) than other mass noun animals. "Several types of sheeps" just doesn't work.
Maybe. Bizarrely, you would say "I met two people" to refer to two individuals, and "two peoples" to refer to "tribes", so you'd think the plural has that second meaning. However, if you use the word with a singular numeral "we are one people", you're using a singular word form with the "tribal" meaning. Referring to an individual using "people" would seem to be impossible (unlike "one Euro").
Incredible what language users have to put up with.:)
Well, sheep is usually analysed as being a count noun with an identical plural and singular form. What I am looking for is a noun that has a single form which can be used in both a singular and plural context (like sheep), but which also has a plural form with an additional/different meaning used in exceptional (ie. unusual/rare) situations. It really makes most sense with units, imagine someone saying "bring me 4 litres of water" to stress that they want 4 individual one litre bottles as opposed to a one gallon jug or two 2 litre jugs. Funnily enough that example doesn't even work in German, as litre/Liter doesn't even have a plural form in German; but the point stands.
What English does have is mass nouns with exceptional plurals. You usually treat sand as a mass noun: "a pile of sand" (singular), as opposed to "a pile of sticks" (plural); but in unusual cases it's possible to refer to the "sands of time" or "the behaviour of two sands" (which is technical jargon). With these, you can't use a numeral with the singular form, however; so "give me five sand" is impossible, while "give me five Euro" is fine.
Huh. I never recognized how that might be weird for English native speakers. English has "regular" count nouns and mass nouns (like water, which you can't use with a numeral *five waters). German has those, and an additional "countable mass noun" category, also used for other units like pound. You could still say "10 Euros", but you'd be referring to ten individual coins. I can't come up with any noun in English that acts quite the same way, though there are examples in English that don't fit into the count noun/mass noun distinction, either.
Well, it depends on what they mean by anonymizing. If you just dump all the data into one homogenous list with coordinates and possibly an SSID in each row, that'll be basically impossible to de-anonymize. And at least for the image linked to in the summary, that's all you really need.
There's also OpenShot and, at some point, Lombard. I initially used PiTiVi but I found OpenShot to be superior in most ways, though PiTiVi's UI is a bit more polished (but then, it just does a lot less). Just installed Kdenlive, and it looks fantastic, I'll try that the next time around. For instance, it apparently supports freezing a frame out-of-the-box, something neither PiTiVi nor OpenShot can do AFAIK. Hmm... actually, I guess you can set the speed to 0x in OpenShot, that'd should accomplish the same thing.
However according to Hommey, these new faster and less sluggish builds of Firefox for Linux will be available only from Firefox 6 onwards and we expect the first beta of Firefox 6 to available only by September - October 2011.
Oddly enough, there are hobbyists who like tinkering with software but not with hardware... There's nothing wrong with a high barrier to entry, but there's something wrong with arbitrarily raising it -- unless you're doing it because of the high barrier to entry, as in Brainfuck or Intercal coding.
Professional devs, sure, people who're interested in making money from it. Who cares about them? This is Slashdot, we like tinkering with computers, the lower the entry barrier the better. Your final sentence says it all: you're interested in a polished end product, to the point that your happy that hobbists are excluded from the platform. Nothing wrong with thinking that per se, but it's a consumer's perspective; it might be better served by, I don't know, Gizmodo or something.
tldr: In Estonia, 1 USD (12 Estonian kroons) buys more stuff than in the US. In Sweden, 1 USD (6 Swedish kronor) buys less stuff than in the US.
Well, I'm just an arm chair economist so I just looked it up on Wikipedia.:)
For instance, look at these two tables, listing GDP per capita, one nominal, and one adjusted for PPP. Sweden has about the same nominal GPD/capita as the US, but is at about 80% of the US when adjusted for PPP -- because stuff is more expensive in Sweden. For instance, a Big Mac is about 8 USD in Sweden. The price of food stuffs in Scandinavia never ceases to amaze me, AFAIK it's not just limited to bad American fast food. The PPP rate is calculated from the prices of a range of goods, very similar to how inflation is calculated. I'd imagine that the price of internet access factors into it, but maybe it's limited to more corporeal stuff. Of course, the fact that Sweden has a much higher VAT than most if not all of the US immediately affects the PPP.
Anyway, yep, that'd mean your connection "ought to be" cheaper in the US than it is in Sweden, all other things being equal. But of course all things aren't equal, hence you get ridiculously cheap Internet while the Americans get dirt cheap fast food. You be the judge.;)
To be fair, 40 USD in Estonia are not 40 USD in the US (or in Sweden, for that matter). The GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity of Estonia is less than half of that of the US. A Big Mac is about 2.70 USD in Estonia, compared to 3.70 USD in the US.
Huh? If it's not in the dictionary, you just type it in the normal way, one character at a time. Works fine. But maybe you're right and it's not all that great for tablets.
In-vehicle navigation costs 2500 USD? That's crazy! Isn't is essentially the same thing as a standalone GPS system? I guess car owners are just happy being fleeced.
How much did the GPS program cost? I haven't been able to find any figures. The European GPS system will cost roughly 7.5 billion EUR, so about 11 billion USD. Yikes, those are big numbers! I think it's reasonable to assume GPS was a lot more expensive, so far: they had to do way more R+D, the technology used was more expensive in the past, they launched more than twice as many satellites, etc. If we're using the expenses for Galileo as a lower bound, you'd end up with about 35 USD per US resident. Seems unlikely that the tax from domestic sales of GPS receivers adds up to that much.
I think in metric myself, but really, this is very far down the list of things I want the editors to be more diligent about.
In fact, at this point the entire editing process is far down the list of Slashdot annoyances: the freaking browser window keeps scrolling up several pages to expand the fucking parent post when I just want to middle- or right-click a link, leaving it up to me to find the post and sentence I was just reading. I swear I have never seen a more aggravating non-feature than this.
(PS: I know I can just disable the new UI to stop Slashdot from messing with mouse clicks. I actually like the new UI, but I might have to do that. I keep hoping they're going to fix it RSN.)
I'm not sure that the location data never leaves the device. If you use a location-based web service, they're getting your location for starters, and you should be able to tell them how long they're allowed to store this data, or if they're allowed to do so at all. The difference between web service and a local app is increasingly thin, many apps run natively on your device but their functionality strictly requires talking to a remote host.
I guess all of this is independent of the whole db file bruhaha -- AFAICT apps don't ever have access to it, and some kind of programmer's oversight/bug might well be to blame for the accumulation of lots and lots of locations. Anyway, I certainly think the file should be limited to a few entries. If there is any added functionality requiring a local history of position data, there really ought to be an option to disable that and miss out on the functionality. It's true that local data is a far lower threat than data transmitted to the net, but it is yet another thing to worry about if the data gets stolen from your device. It's just good data hygiene to avoid creating and storing data you don't seriously need.
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No, if they sold you a broken laptop three years ago, they should have replaced it three years ago. They didn't, so you had to sue. And probably buy a new one, which they arguably should re-imburse you for. Giving you a laptop now is an insult (you probably don't want another one) and giving you one you can't even resell to recover most of those losses is adding injury.
... and his extinction lends credibility to the near-magical capabilities of American intel-gathering amongst the Al-Qaeda faithful
LOL. You're being ironic, right?
That's pretty close. It's different in that I don't think "fishes" can combine with a numeral, so you don't have a difference in meaning in an otherwise identical environment. "He ate two fishes" sounds wrong to me, while I'd accept "several types of fishes" (though I'd still be more comfortable with "several types of fish"). However I can well imagine some people feeling fine with "two fishes".
Odd that it seems to work better with fish(es) than other mass noun animals. "Several types of sheeps" just doesn't work.
Maybe. Bizarrely, you would say "I met two people" to refer to two individuals, and "two peoples" to refer to "tribes", so you'd think the plural has that second meaning. However, if you use the word with a singular numeral "we are one people", you're using a singular word form with the "tribal" meaning. Referring to an individual using "people" would seem to be impossible (unlike "one Euro").
Incredible what language users have to put up with. :)
I'm aware of those, but they're really not what I'm looking for. See my reply to your sibling who pointed out "sheep".
Well, sheep is usually analysed as being a count noun with an identical plural and singular form. What I am looking for is a noun that has a single form which can be used in both a singular and plural context (like sheep), but which also has a plural form with an additional/different meaning used in exceptional (ie. unusual/rare) situations. It really makes most sense with units, imagine someone saying "bring me 4 litres of water" to stress that they want 4 individual one litre bottles as opposed to a one gallon jug or two 2 litre jugs. Funnily enough that example doesn't even work in German, as litre/Liter doesn't even have a plural form in German; but the point stands.
What English does have is mass nouns with exceptional plurals. You usually treat sand as a mass noun: "a pile of sand" (singular), as opposed to "a pile of sticks" (plural); but in unusual cases it's possible to refer to the "sands of time" or "the behaviour of two sands" (which is technical jargon). With these, you can't use a numeral with the singular form, however; so "give me five sand" is impossible, while "give me five Euro" is fine.
Did you help the French find the memory unit? WHO, I?
Huh. I never recognized how that might be weird for English native speakers. English has "regular" count nouns and mass nouns (like water, which you can't use with a numeral *five waters). German has those, and an additional "countable mass noun" category, also used for other units like pound. You could still say "10 Euros", but you'd be referring to ten individual coins. I can't come up with any noun in English that acts quite the same way, though there are examples in English that don't fit into the count noun/mass noun distinction, either.
Well, it depends on what they mean by anonymizing. If you just dump all the data into one homogenous list with coordinates and possibly an SSID in each row, that'll be basically impossible to de-anonymize. And at least for the image linked to in the summary, that's all you really need.
There's also OpenShot and, at some point, Lombard. I initially used PiTiVi but I found OpenShot to be superior in most ways, though PiTiVi's UI is a bit more polished (but then, it just does a lot less). Just installed Kdenlive, and it looks fantastic, I'll try that the next time around. For instance, it apparently supports freezing a frame out-of-the-box, something neither PiTiVi nor OpenShot can do AFAIK. Hmm... actually, I guess you can set the speed to 0x in OpenShot, that'd should accomplish the same thing.
Flash warning: http://www.themoscownews.com/infographics/20110427/188619593.html
From TFA:
Oddly enough, there are hobbyists who like tinkering with software but not with hardware... There's nothing wrong with a high barrier to entry, but there's something wrong with arbitrarily raising it -- unless you're doing it because of the high barrier to entry, as in Brainfuck or Intercal coding.
Thanks for enlightening me... I had been under the impression that dollar bills change their physical form when travelling across borders!
Professional devs, sure, people who're interested in making money from it. Who cares about them? This is Slashdot, we like tinkering with computers, the lower the entry barrier the better. Your final sentence says it all: you're interested in a polished end product, to the point that your happy that hobbists are excluded from the platform. Nothing wrong with thinking that per se, but it's a consumer's perspective; it might be better served by, I don't know, Gizmodo or something.
tldr: In Estonia, 1 USD (12 Estonian kroons) buys more stuff than in the US. In Sweden, 1 USD (6 Swedish kronor) buys less stuff than in the US.
Well, I'm just an arm chair economist so I just looked it up on Wikipedia. :)
For instance, look at these two tables, listing GDP per capita, one nominal, and one adjusted for PPP. Sweden has about the same nominal GPD/capita as the US, but is at about 80% of the US when adjusted for PPP -- because stuff is more expensive in Sweden. For instance, a Big Mac is about 8 USD in Sweden. The price of food stuffs in Scandinavia never ceases to amaze me, AFAIK it's not just limited to bad American fast food. The PPP rate is calculated from the prices of a range of goods, very similar to how inflation is calculated. I'd imagine that the price of internet access factors into it, but maybe it's limited to more corporeal stuff. Of course, the fact that Sweden has a much higher VAT than most if not all of the US immediately affects the PPP.
Anyway, yep, that'd mean your connection "ought to be" cheaper in the US than it is in Sweden, all other things being equal. But of course all things aren't equal, hence you get ridiculously cheap Internet while the Americans get dirt cheap fast food. You be the judge. ;)
To be fair, 40 USD in Estonia are not 40 USD in the US (or in Sweden, for that matter). The GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power parity of Estonia is less than half of that of the US. A Big Mac is about 2.70 USD in Estonia, compared to 3.70 USD in the US.
Still, your point stands.
And miss out on the swype functionality? Hell no. I wouldn't use it for a SSH session, but I wouldn't want to use any virtual keyboard for that
Huh? If it's not in the dictionary, you just type it in the normal way, one character at a time. Works fine. But maybe you're right and it's not all that great for tablets.
In-vehicle navigation costs 2500 USD? That's crazy! Isn't is essentially the same thing as a standalone GPS system? I guess car owners are just happy being fleeced.
Googling around I found this (very recent) re-implementation for Linux: LoadSnake
You should stick to designing and authoring cloud-based services.
How much did the GPS program cost? I haven't been able to find any figures. The European GPS system will cost roughly 7.5 billion EUR, so about 11 billion USD. Yikes, those are big numbers! I think it's reasonable to assume GPS was a lot more expensive, so far: they had to do way more R+D, the technology used was more expensive in the past, they launched more than twice as many satellites, etc. If we're using the expenses for Galileo as a lower bound, you'd end up with about 35 USD per US resident. Seems unlikely that the tax from domestic sales of GPS receivers adds up to that much.
I think in metric myself, but really, this is very far down the list of things I want the editors to be more diligent about.
In fact, at this point the entire editing process is far down the list of Slashdot annoyances: the freaking browser window keeps scrolling up several pages to expand the fucking parent post when I just want to middle- or right-click a link, leaving it up to me to find the post and sentence I was just reading. I swear I have never seen a more aggravating non-feature than this.
(PS: I know I can just disable the new UI to stop Slashdot from messing with mouse clicks. I actually like the new UI, but I might have to do that. I keep hoping they're going to fix it RSN.)
I'm not sure that the location data never leaves the device. If you use a location-based web service, they're getting your location for starters, and you should be able to tell them how long they're allowed to store this data, or if they're allowed to do so at all. The difference between web service and a local app is increasingly thin, many apps run natively on your device but their functionality strictly requires talking to a remote host.
I guess all of this is independent of the whole db file bruhaha -- AFAICT apps don't ever have access to it, and some kind of programmer's oversight/bug might well be to blame for the accumulation of lots and lots of locations. Anyway, I certainly think the file should be limited to a few entries. If there is any added functionality requiring a local history of position data, there really ought to be an option to disable that and miss out on the functionality. It's true that local data is a far lower threat than data transmitted to the net, but it is yet another thing to worry about if the data gets stolen from your device. It's just good data hygiene to avoid creating and storing data you don't seriously need.