Same here, Akonadi broke everything, and I'm seriously considering dropping KDE off the back of that, on my FreeBSD box anyway.
It's not a botched config update either cos I've wiped everything (I think - docs are minimal and it seems to scatter it's config fairly liberally) and started again. It still loses the MySQL connection every 30 seconds and has to be restarted. I presume it's picky about some library version or other or maybe it just doesn't like FreeBSD. TBH I've spent too much time on it already - I wish the KDE devs would learn to test properly.
These are awful business models. Their content is all available for free on Bitorrent. They can't possible expect people to pay for content they can get for free.
So they're all a dismal failure, right? Well no. They're actually doing pretty well. There is a simple way to reduce piracy, make the content available at a good price on demand so that it's just as wasy to get it legally. Most people don't actually mind paying for content, they just don't want to drive to the store to buy a disc to watch a film.
One of the reasons a popular cell-phone has sold so well is that it's made of glass and so shatters if you drop it. If this new glass is doesn't break when you drop it that will have a significant impact on sales.
You manged to use an N95 as an MP3 player and GPS? That's pretty brave - either one of those would drain my battery before I got anywhere near my destination.
As per TFA, we've had this in the UK for years. As the US networks say, it's not perfect as the IMEI can be changed on some phones and they can be exported abroad but its a hell of a lot better than nothing. Most mobile phone robberies are not organised exporters, they're people after a quick profit, often to feed a drug habit.
As others have said, the punishment is something of an irrelevance here. The discussion is about what constitutes actual damages in a civil case.
IMHO If a criminal act has taken place that warrants a punishment that's for the criminal courts to decide and as a punishment, any fine should not go to the victim.
I'm a KDE man myself and an occasional FreeBSD user. FreeBSD at least has meta-packages for the gnome and kde desktops that pull in all the dependencies for you. Sure, it's harder then Ubuntu, but then what isn't?
The corporate won't re-test argument is at best obsolete and at worst stupid. Corporates need to upgrade their browsers for security reasons just like everyone else does these days. The web-app compatibility issue is no biggie - just make sure you have a decent rollback strategy in place if something important stops working.
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That's a really good idea.
Yep, still incredibly unstable.
Same here, Akonadi broke everything, and I'm seriously considering dropping KDE off the back of that, on my FreeBSD box anyway.
It's not a botched config update either cos I've wiped everything (I think - docs are minimal and it seems to scatter it's config fairly liberally) and started again. It still loses the MySQL connection every 30 seconds and has to be restarted. I presume it's picky about some library version or other or maybe it just doesn't like FreeBSD. TBH I've spent too much time on it already - I wish the KDE devs would learn to test properly.
I'm probably going to regret posting this, but I hope it works on FreeBSD as too.
These are awful business models. Their content is all available for free on Bitorrent. They can't possible expect people to pay for content they can get for free.
So they're all a dismal failure, right? Well no. They're actually doing pretty well. There is a simple way to reduce piracy, make the content available at a good price on demand so that it's just as wasy to get it legally. Most people don't actually mind paying for content, they just don't want to drive to the store to buy a disc to watch a film.
My mobile never works on the London Underground, protest or no protest.
The story for OMGPonies is actually pretty similar come to look at it - http://slashdot.org/story/06/03/31/1644225/slashdot-design-changes-for-wider-appeal
But not far off...
One of the reasons a popular cell-phone has sold so well is that it's made of glass and so shatters if you drop it. If this new glass is doesn't break when you drop it that will have a significant impact on sales.
Whoever told you that is your enemy."
One of my favourite quotes. Seemed relevent.
And it still sold more than the Lumia
You manged to use an N95 as an MP3 player and GPS? That's pretty brave - either one of those would drain my battery before I got anywhere near my destination.
As per TFA, we've had this in the UK for years. As the US networks say, it's not perfect as the IMEI can be changed on some phones and they can be exported abroad but its a hell of a lot better than nothing. Most mobile phone robberies are not organised exporters, they're people after a quick profit, often to feed a drug habit.
It's common sense, it works, do it.
Don't tell them who you're going to vote for. They have no right to know.
Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
Quite.
Just because you can it doesn't mean you should
AMOS was where I learned coding, before moving on C
As others have said, the punishment is something of an irrelevance here. The discussion is about what constitutes actual damages in a civil case.
IMHO If a criminal act has taken place that warrants a punishment that's for the criminal courts to decide and as a punishment, any fine should not go to the victim.
I think the logic is they're using it so they should have paid for it so the damages are what they should have paid for it.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I am surprised they haven't gone back to the old model now the hardware is up to it. It would make a lot of sense.
I'm a KDE man myself and an occasional FreeBSD user. FreeBSD at least has meta-packages for the gnome and kde desktops that pull in all the dependencies for you. Sure, it's harder then Ubuntu, but then what isn't?
I work in finance. We care a lot about security. A lot.
Ads on google.com, ads on the underground, ads in the paper. Surprised they haven't been handing out free CDs AOL style.
The corporate won't re-test argument is at best obsolete and at worst stupid. Corporates need to upgrade their browsers for security reasons just like everyone else does these days. The web-app compatibility issue is no biggie - just make sure you have a decent rollback strategy in place if something important stops working.
From what I've heard I wouldn't want to fly into LA or New York the experience sounds far too unpleasant. Apparently Houston is better.