Look again. Samsung still sells the Galaxy Player 4" and 5". I have a 4 and it is great. I use it daily for work. While they are only running Gingerbread it is sufficient for anything I need to do.
Unless I've misread something, CyanogenMod supports the Galaxy Player. That'll give you a version of Android that's pretty much as current as you can get. Easy to install, too.
but maybe in dangerous things like cars I would prefer people have good skills in every aspects of the machine
I'm not sure I would expect a driver to be able to assemble a gearbox or isolate an electrical fault in a car. But I emphatically DO expect a driver to have the requisite knowledge and coordination to park his/her vehicle.
If they do not completely satisfy this requirement, they should not be permitted to pass the test. Simple.
For some reason, many people seem to have an expectation that being permitted to drive a vehicle is a right, as opposed to a privilege. There are far too many drivers on the roads who manifestly have only the sketchiest knowledge of the rules, and who are totally incompetent at handling their machine. I don't really give a damn if they kill or injure themselves, but they don't have a right to take anyone else with them.
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, says that...the NSA tried to penetrate and compromise Tor, but it was only because terrorists and criminals use it, too...
Well, he's right. As far as that goes. Trouble is, there's a disconnect between investigating terrorists/other criminals and wholesale spying on honest citizens. One can only suppose the term "honest citizen" is a term entirely alien to their comprehension...
That might work in the US, but here in Australia it is more common for eateries to have notices saying "no separate billing", which puts the onus on the customers to work it out for themselves.
This isn't just "splitting the bill". The patentable part of Google's code is how it stores the information on who ordered what...
And the not-so-fine print is that anyone who is that creepy about itemising his/her expenses to that extent at a social gathering will be the individual who will not be invited again. The sociable thing to do (unless one member of the party consumes just half a leaf of lettuce) is to divide the bill by the number of people at the table. Sure, there will be imbalances, but over multiple occasions (in normally reasonable and congenial company) they should pretty much average out.
You are missing the fact that the the summary, the article, and the so called detail description give not a single
clue about how it works, or even precisely what it does.
You can thank the/. editors for that. (Sigh...)
In my (now totally re-written) submission I provided a link to the actual NS article (which is still up there on the main page) and a detailed description from the developers here (PDF).
It looks like I'll have to start keeping track of the lies.
Or else maybe train your system to send null data rather than fake stuff? I'm going to investigate openPDroid that AC mentioned earlier. Looks like a start...
I know about Calibre, but the other problem is the limited storage vs say the Sony readers which have microSD slots.
In practice, the amount of storage probably doesn't affect the usefulness of the device that much. I currently have ~700 books on my Sony device, which occupies just 690MB of the 1.41GB internal storage, and I haven't needed to touch the SD card yet.
I don't own a reader atm. Kindle still seem like the best option but the limited storage (unless you actually buy books from Amazon), vendor lock-in (they sell books in their own format and the most popular one you can't use on their readers) and finally the Sony reader had much snappier zoom and scroll
The device you choose really comes down to what look & feel you prefer. I opted for a Sony PRS-T1 (now superseded by the somewhat prettier PRS-T2) for a variety of reasons, at the top of which was the fact that it supports the widest range of formats.
However, in practice I now convert everything I can to ePub, which IMO is by far the most useful, since I have become fairly good at manipulating them with Sigil. I try to avoid PDF if possible, since you can't reflow text, so you're stuck with the format you've got. Whichever device you opt for, my suggestion is to use Calibre to manage content.
FWIW, I have had four cables with micro-USB plugs fail over as many years. It seems (from the fact that wiggling the little plug can bring about a temporary/intermittent connection) that the connection just isn't "positive" enough to be 100% reliable. On the one hand, it's a pain that such a simple component should fail, while on the other, at least it's replaceable with a commonly available generic alternative.
Plus, over the course of a lifetime, the "you"s change.
Except in Australia, where (I am appalled to say) the term "youse" means a plurality of "you"s. [Sigh. For the information of the illiter8 ba5tards among us, "you" is the second-person plural form as opposed to the now obsolete first-person "thou". The latter is still good for Shakespearian insults, though, e.g. "thou remnant!"]
Don't we have to have a declared war to actually have a true charge of treason?
No.
But if this Meyer woman thinks that failure to disclose confidential information to the NSA constitutes treason, then she's a dumbass bimbo who doesn't know the meaning of the word, of which every definition implies an action counter to the interests of the state. Failure to take some action might be an offence of another kind, but it cannot be treason.
I wonder why he did that. He would have to know better, surely. I use a single drive in my laptop, but (a) I don't trust it, (b) the sky won't fall in if it fails, and (c) I keep lots of offline backups anyway.
Just wrong. They thought about using a terminator gene but market reaction stopped them.
Not wrong. Roundup Ready seeds use terminator genes. Monsanto justifies this by claiming that the reason for this is to prevent the transfer of glyphosate resistance genes to other plants (which in itself is actually a valid consideration), but there's no denying that it's also good for revenue.
And when companies like Monsanto won't let you keep seed for next year to plant a new crop
There's nothing stopping you from keeping seeds from a crop - they just won't do you any good. Monsanto's products are deliberately sterile, so you only get one generation of crop out of them.
Given that this is Slashdot, so a high proportion of our readers subsist on junk food (OK, flame on if you want), I might add that sweet potatoes also make a really yummy replacement for ordinary potatoes for deep-frying.
If you like. But the difference between Golden Rice and the seeds sold by corporations like Monsanto is that they aren't deliberately made sterile in order to force the farmer to keep buying more seeds.
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Look again. Samsung still sells the Galaxy Player 4" and 5". I have a 4 and it is great. I use it daily for work. While they are only running Gingerbread it is sufficient for anything I need to do.
Unless I've misread something, CyanogenMod supports the Galaxy Player. That'll give you a version of Android that's pretty much as current as you can get. Easy to install, too.
This is nonsense. Parking, especially parallel parking, is a skill that has very little to do with normal driving.
No, that's nonsense. you should be able to park your car like this. Don't try this with a heavy truck, it won't work... :-)
but maybe in dangerous things like cars I would prefer people have good skills in every aspects of the machine
I'm not sure I would expect a driver to be able to assemble a gearbox or isolate an electrical fault in a car. But I emphatically DO expect a driver to have the requisite knowledge and coordination to park his/her vehicle.
If they do not completely satisfy this requirement, they should not be permitted to pass the test. Simple.
For some reason, many people seem to have an expectation that being permitted to drive a vehicle is a right, as opposed to a privilege. There are far too many drivers on the roads who manifestly have only the sketchiest knowledge of the rules, and who are totally incompetent at handling their machine. I don't really give a damn if they kill or injure themselves, but they don't have a right to take anyone else with them.
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, says that...the NSA tried to penetrate and compromise Tor, but it was only because terrorists and criminals use it, too...
Well, he's right. As far as that goes. Trouble is, there's a disconnect between investigating terrorists/other criminals and wholesale spying on honest citizens. One can only suppose the term "honest citizen" is a term entirely alien to their comprehension...
That might work in the US, but here in Australia it is more common for eateries to have notices saying "no separate billing", which puts the onus on the customers to work it out for themselves.
This isn't just "splitting the bill". The patentable part of Google's code is how it stores the information on who ordered what...
And the not-so-fine print is that anyone who is that creepy about itemising his/her expenses to that extent at a social gathering will be the individual who will not be invited again. The sociable thing to do (unless one member of the party consumes just half a leaf of lettuce) is to divide the bill by the number of people at the table. Sure, there will be imbalances, but over multiple occasions (in normally reasonable and congenial company) they should pretty much average out.
You are missing the fact that the the summary, the article, and the so called detail description give not a single clue about how it works, or even precisely what it does.
You can thank the /. editors for that. (Sigh...)
In my (now totally re-written) submission I provided a link to the actual NS article (which is still up there on the main page) and a detailed description from the developers here (PDF).
HTH.
It looks like I'll have to start keeping track of the lies.
Or else maybe train your system to send null data rather than fake stuff? I'm going to investigate openPDroid that AC mentioned earlier. Looks like a start...
I know about Calibre, but the other problem is the limited storage vs say the Sony readers which have microSD slots.
In practice, the amount of storage probably doesn't affect the usefulness of the device that much. I currently have ~700 books on my Sony device, which occupies just 690MB of the 1.41GB internal storage, and I haven't needed to touch the SD card yet.
I don't own a reader atm. Kindle still seem like the best option but the limited storage (unless you actually buy books from Amazon), vendor lock-in (they sell books in their own format and the most popular one you can't use on their readers) and finally the Sony reader had much snappier zoom and scroll
The device you choose really comes down to what look & feel you prefer. I opted for a Sony PRS-T1 (now superseded by the somewhat prettier PRS-T2) for a variety of reasons, at the top of which was the fact that it supports the widest range of formats.
However, in practice I now convert everything I can to ePub, which IMO is by far the most useful, since I have become fairly good at manipulating them with Sigil. I try to avoid PDF if possible, since you can't reflow text, so you're stuck with the format you've got. Whichever device you opt for, my suggestion is to use Calibre to manage content.
FWIW, I have had four cables with micro-USB plugs fail over as many years. It seems (from the fact that wiggling the little plug can bring about a temporary/intermittent connection) that the connection just isn't "positive" enough to be 100% reliable. On the one hand, it's a pain that such a simple component should fail, while on the other, at least it's replaceable with a commonly available generic alternative.
We have laws about these things. Laws used to apply to everyone, and people used to have a reasonable expectation that they would be followed.
Most people used to have an expectation that simple good manners should be enough. But I guess I'm just old.
Plus, over the course of a lifetime, the "you"s change.
Except in Australia, where (I am appalled to say) the term "youse" means a plurality of "you"s. [Sigh. For the information of the illiter8 ba5tards among us, "you" is the second-person plural form as opposed to the now obsolete first-person "thou". The latter is still good for Shakespearian insults, though, e.g. "thou remnant!"]
Don't we have to have a declared war to actually have a true charge of treason?
No.
But if this Meyer woman thinks that failure to disclose confidential information to the NSA constitutes treason, then she's a dumbass bimbo who doesn't know the meaning of the word, of which every definition implies an action counter to the interests of the state. Failure to take some action might be an offence of another kind, but it cannot be treason.
Whereas lesser mortals just let the NSA store it for us...
I wonder why he did that. He would have to know better, surely. I use a single drive in my laptop, but (a) I don't trust it, (b) the sky won't fall in if it fails, and (c) I keep lots of offline backups anyway.
The R in RAID stands for redundant. As in you can have a failure and keep going.
Or it should be. I have met several people who use RAID-0 who don't seem to have worked out that that level offers no redundancy whatsoever. [Sigh...]
Just wrong. They thought about using a terminator gene but market reaction stopped them.
Not wrong. Roundup Ready seeds use terminator genes. Monsanto justifies this by claiming that the reason for this is to prevent the transfer of glyphosate resistance genes to other plants (which in itself is actually a valid consideration), but there's no denying that it's also good for revenue.
Wrong. Roundup Ready seeds are well known to use terminator genes to make them sterile beyond the first generation.
And when companies like Monsanto won't let you keep seed for next year to plant a new crop
There's nothing stopping you from keeping seeds from a crop - they just won't do you any good. Monsanto's products are deliberately sterile, so you only get one generation of crop out of them.
Maybe that's because they are often manifest in the same products (butter, for instance).
Don't we already have a USDA Certified Organic program? To qualify for the certification, the food *cannot* be GMO.
As a scientist, I would be very interested to see an inorganic GMO.
These stories are rutinely[sic] removed from the web very quickly, this is one of the few I could find:
I wonder if that might have anything to do with the fact that they are total crap?
Given that this is Slashdot, so a high proportion of our readers subsist on junk food (OK, flame on if you want), I might add that sweet potatoes also make a really yummy replacement for ordinary potatoes for deep-frying.
If you like. But the difference between Golden Rice and the seeds sold by corporations like Monsanto is that they aren't deliberately made sterile in order to force the farmer to keep buying more seeds.