Alexa came with my ecobee 4. I tried it for a week. I turned it off. It came on at random times for no reason, and do they really think I want to speak my grocery list out loud? That's too hard.
I just rinse it, then toast it in the pot with some oil. That gets rid of the bitter taste. After its toasted, you add the water. No mess.
It'd be great if this all leads to lower prices. It's a great substitute for brown rice, and cooks a while lot faster.
Did you not see the moto z with no headphone jack?
Or maybe Motorola/Lenovo is just not getting away with... I'm buying an S7 instead of the moto z because of this.
Even a category called "slashvertisement" would probably be acceptable advertising if it's not done very often. Just don't try to deceive us into thinking an advertisement is a story. We usually see through it.
On a different note: fix mobile logins. I can't seem to stay logged in, even though I have no problem with other sites, so it's not my browser. I read just about everyday (though have rarely posted as of late), but you couldn't tell because I'm rarely logged in on mobile.
Yep, I still use it. I tried openSUSE over the weekend, and gave up. The package management wasn't as easy (I like the meta packages Mageia has like "task-printing" that just installs everything I need; openSUSE didn't seem to have those). The configuration tools have been biggest reason why I've stuck with Madrake/Mandriva/Mageia since about the summer of 2001. I've tried other distros, but I keep coming back.
If one of the the biggest banks in my country pulls in background images from http, on there https secure account login page, this can't be a security risk, can it?
It can be, if the bank's using that as the "known image" so you "know" you're on the correct page. Phishing attacks would become easier if attackers could use this to figure out which images were associated with which user accounts.
In my experience the EPA figures have usually off by several MPG, with "American" cars typically having lower MPG than the EPA estimates and "foreign" cars typically higher. It's odd that I don't see GM and Chrysler being investgated. Or perhaps the EPA itself needs to be investigated...
This used to be true. The EPA revised how MPG is calculated a few years back (2008 I think). It's more-accurate now. That's why you'll see a people posting below that they get better than the EPA estimate.
I'm really sicked by people that make those arguments that the poor don't have it so bad since they have a TV. Oh it's so hard to acquire a TV. Let's just chuck those old CRT's in the landfill then while we buy our new flat screen TV's rather than give them to people that lack one.
The complaining's not about the poor having TVs. It's about the poor paying for satellite or cable TV when the basic channels are free over-the-air (that's the theory anyway - assuming they have a good antenna).
Android, by contrast, pushes you to design everything as small, self- contained mini-applications
That sounds a bit like the old UNIX principle. And what's wrong with having applications that do small things and do it well. I don't want a picture application with it's own twitter functionality, I have a proper twitter client for that. etc.
The biggest reason he gives while this is bad is because it destroys then recreates an activity upon rotating the screen. What I've noticed on my droid is that application refresh the screen when the screen is rotated. To get around the refreshing, developers have to hack around google's API.
What about the computers that are powered by a nuclear reactor?
It's still wasting company money. Who cares about how much CO2 is put out when really all the company really cares about is how much money they're wasting? For that matter, if we turned our computers off at home, we'd save money on our own bills. I know my power bill would probably be $20-$30 less if I turned my computer off when it wasn't in use.
You must be from Cincinnati. the geography is familiar, as are the experiences.
Not the GP, but I grew up not too far from Tri-County mall. Microcenter is definitely the best electronics store in that area. I went there while visiting my parents back during Christmas; it was the busiest I've ever seen it just a few days after new years - the parking lot is just not meant to be at full capacity.
It's not always age; sometimes it's ignorance. My grandparents recently got an HDTV (they like big TVs and their old one had died) and didn't know they weren't watching the HD channels.
So I showed them the HD channels and it was obvious. My grandparents are in their mid-70s and we started watching Jay Leno. One of Leno's guests had a diamond bracelet on - on SD we could tell it was a diamond bracelet, but that's all. On HD we could see the individual diamonds.
People will just have to learn on their own. If they can't see the difference, maybe they should get their eyes checked.
I hear they got a great "Control Panel" that rivals Yast. What is it like? What unique features does the distro have?
The Control Center (i.e. "Control Panel") is probably the best feature that Mandriva has. For me, it allows easy setup of just about everything - from NFS and SMB servers and clients to a backup feature that just works (so long as the hard drive has space - which they also deal with). Much of these things can be edited by webmin, but the control center GUI is easier to use than webmin. Another benefit is that many of the tools can run in the Linux virtual terminals. This makes it easy to configure the box even when I don't have X running.
I'd have to say Mandriva's package management is also another benefit. Since they've gone to urpmi, I haven't had any troubles with package dependency hell. urpmi takes care of that for me. However, this hasn't stopped me from installing rpms myself as-needed. And when the non-urpmi-repository rpms require specific packages, urpmi will automatically install the packages for me when it installed my rpm.
When I've tried Ubuntu, the biggest thing I missed was all the configuration items that the Mandriva control center gave me. Sure, I can edit things by hand, but I'd rather use a GUI for it. Fedora felt the same way.
So overall, I like it. Sure, there are complaints, but there will always be complaints.
Sure, you can install it yourself (I've done this numerous times and run Linux 95% of the time at home). What I want to be able to do is call up Dell and say "I have Linux and XP (or Vista) installed, and here's my problem" and not have the person on the other end say "we don't support you anymore".
What I'd like to see Dell offer is the chance to get both Ubuntu and Windows installed by the factory as a dual-boot system. While I normally use Linux, I need Windows for a few games still. I know, I know, I'm never satisfied. While I'm glad Dell is selling desktops with Linux now, a dual-boot offer would be a great improvement.
I don't see why we must go completely electronic. In the county I live in, we fill in very large circles on paper using a marker. That paper is then fed into a machine that electronically counts the votes. It's just as efficient (time-wise) as completely electronic voting, but it doesn't require the complexity that the e-voting machines require. It also allows for an easy-to-read paper-trail system (unlike the "hanging chad" problem back in the 2000 election) for when a recount is required.
And on a related note - why rewrite? Can't people ever just go for cleaning something up? No cause then you are just doing mindless reformatting - while if you rewrite, you can claim you make it better, faster, whatever... So of course people will say its better to rewrite...
On one project I'm currently working on, we DO just clean up the code. It's necessary because over time developers (myself included) haven't been following the coding standard for the project. To make the code more readable to future developers, we actually will try to clean up a file or pieces of a file when we touch it (comments, style, magic numbers, etc.). There are a lot files, and it hasn't always been a success (it's a continual battle), but it's better than rewriting it.
Now, I *have* rewritten a lot of the code on the project, but not because it was "ugly". We had quite a lot of "prototype" code still in the project. Since it was prototype code, it didn't check for or handle error conditions very well (not to mention the endless bugs that have been found due to the prototype code). We've had to rewrite a lot of the code because it was easier to do that than fix the bugs in the code. This usually allows for easier debugging in the future AND gets rid of any of the bugs that were found (the bugs were usually caused by a bad or even completely wrong approach to the implementation).
The difference is knowing when to clean up the code and when to rewrite it. If a developer just can't understand the code (because it needs cleanup or it's just very complicated), then it should be cleaned up and commented properly. Sure it's tedious, but everyone on the project loves you afterwards because they can suddenly understand the code! If there are bugs and it's obvious the implementation should have been done a different way (for speed, usability, modularity, whatever), then a rewrite might be in order.
(and of course, as you mention, as time goes on the code starts looking "bad" or "old" again - time for hopefully another cleanup rather than a rewrite)
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Alexa came with my ecobee 4. I tried it for a week. I turned it off. It came on at random times for no reason, and do they really think I want to speak my grocery list out loud? That's too hard.
I just rinse it, then toast it in the pot with some oil. That gets rid of the bitter taste. After its toasted, you add the water. No mess. It'd be great if this all leads to lower prices. It's a great substitute for brown rice, and cooks a while lot faster.
And viewers like you! (Assuming you're in the U.S. that is)
Did you not see the moto z with no headphone jack? Or maybe Motorola/Lenovo is just not getting away with... I'm buying an S7 instead of the moto z because of this.
Even a category called "slashvertisement" would probably be acceptable advertising if it's not done very often. Just don't try to deceive us into thinking an advertisement is a story. We usually see through it. On a different note: fix mobile logins. I can't seem to stay logged in, even though I have no problem with other sites, so it's not my browser. I read just about everyday (though have rarely posted as of late), but you couldn't tell because I'm rarely logged in on mobile.
Yep, I still use it. I tried openSUSE over the weekend, and gave up. The package management wasn't as easy (I like the meta packages Mageia has like "task-printing" that just installs everything I need; openSUSE didn't seem to have those). The configuration tools have been biggest reason why I've stuck with Madrake/Mandriva/Mageia since about the summer of 2001. I've tried other distros, but I keep coming back.
If one of the the biggest banks in my country pulls in background images from http, on there https secure account login page, this can't be a security risk, can it?
It can be, if the bank's using that as the "known image" so you "know" you're on the correct page. Phishing attacks would become easier if attackers could use this to figure out which images were associated with which user accounts.
In my experience the EPA figures have usually off by several MPG, with "American" cars typically having lower MPG than the EPA estimates and "foreign" cars typically higher. It's odd that I don't see GM and Chrysler being investgated. Or perhaps the EPA itself needs to be investigated...
This used to be true. The EPA revised how MPG is calculated a few years back (2008 I think). It's more-accurate now. That's why you'll see a people posting below that they get better than the EPA estimate.
The version numbers are the EA-prefixed ones, not the solely E-prefixed ones.
I'm really sicked by people that make those arguments that the poor don't have it so bad since they have a TV. Oh it's so hard to acquire a TV. Let's just chuck those old CRT's in the landfill then while we buy our new flat screen TV's rather than give them to people that lack one.
The complaining's not about the poor having TVs. It's about the poor paying for satellite or cable TV when the basic channels are free over-the-air (that's the theory anyway - assuming they have a good antenna).
The biggest reason he gives while this is bad is because it destroys then recreates an activity upon rotating the screen. What I've noticed on my droid is that application refresh the screen when the screen is rotated. To get around the refreshing, developers have to hack around google's API.
Suspend doesn't work quite right on many desktops.
It's still wasting company money. Who cares about how much CO2 is put out when really all the company really cares about is how much money they're wasting? For that matter, if we turned our computers off at home, we'd save money on our own bills. I know my power bill would probably be $20-$30 less if I turned my computer off when it wasn't in use.
It's all about states' rights. States must be smarter than the federal government. Therefore, IE is safer than Firefox and DHS is incorrect.
Not the GP, but I grew up not too far from Tri-County mall. Microcenter is definitely the best electronics store in that area. I went there while visiting my parents back during Christmas; it was the busiest I've ever seen it just a few days after new years - the parking lot is just not meant to be at full capacity.
It's not always age; sometimes it's ignorance. My grandparents recently got an HDTV (they like big TVs and their old one had died) and didn't know they weren't watching the HD channels.
So I showed them the HD channels and it was obvious. My grandparents are in their mid-70s and we started watching Jay Leno. One of Leno's guests had a diamond bracelet on - on SD we could tell it was a diamond bracelet, but that's all. On HD we could see the individual diamonds.
People will just have to learn on their own. If they can't see the difference, maybe they should get their eyes checked.
The Control Center (i.e. "Control Panel") is probably the best feature that Mandriva has. For me, it allows easy setup of just about everything - from NFS and SMB servers and clients to a backup feature that just works (so long as the hard drive has space - which they also deal with). Much of these things can be edited by webmin, but the control center GUI is easier to use than webmin. Another benefit is that many of the tools can run in the Linux virtual terminals. This makes it easy to configure the box even when I don't have X running.
I'd have to say Mandriva's package management is also another benefit. Since they've gone to urpmi, I haven't had any troubles with package dependency hell. urpmi takes care of that for me. However, this hasn't stopped me from installing rpms myself as-needed. And when the non-urpmi-repository rpms require specific packages, urpmi will automatically install the packages for me when it installed my rpm.
When I've tried Ubuntu, the biggest thing I missed was all the configuration items that the Mandriva control center gave me. Sure, I can edit things by hand, but I'd rather use a GUI for it. Fedora felt the same way.
So overall, I like it. Sure, there are complaints, but there will always be complaints.
Just because someone comes up with a patentable idea, doesn't mean it's a GOOD idea.
Sure, you can install it yourself (I've done this numerous times and run Linux 95% of the time at home). What I want to be able to do is call up Dell and say "I have Linux and XP (or Vista) installed, and here's my problem" and not have the person on the other end say "we don't support you anymore".
What I'd like to see Dell offer is the chance to get both Ubuntu and Windows installed by the factory as a dual-boot system. While I normally use Linux, I need Windows for a few games still. I know, I know, I'm never satisfied. While I'm glad Dell is selling desktops with Linux now, a dual-boot offer would be a great improvement.
I don't see why we must go completely electronic. In the county I live in, we fill in very large circles on paper using a marker. That paper is then fed into a machine that electronically counts the votes. It's just as efficient (time-wise) as completely electronic voting, but it doesn't require the complexity that the e-voting machines require. It also allows for an easy-to-read paper-trail system (unlike the "hanging chad" problem back in the 2000 election) for when a recount is required.
Now, I *have* rewritten a lot of the code on the project, but not because it was "ugly". We had quite a lot of "prototype" code still in the project. Since it was prototype code, it didn't check for or handle error conditions very well (not to mention the endless bugs that have been found due to the prototype code). We've had to rewrite a lot of the code because it was easier to do that than fix the bugs in the code. This usually allows for easier debugging in the future AND gets rid of any of the bugs that were found (the bugs were usually caused by a bad or even completely wrong approach to the implementation).
The difference is knowing when to clean up the code and when to rewrite it. If a developer just can't understand the code (because it needs cleanup or it's just very complicated), then it should be cleaned up and commented properly. Sure it's tedious, but everyone on the project loves you afterwards because they can suddenly understand the code! If there are bugs and it's obvious the implementation should have been done a different way (for speed, usability, modularity, whatever), then a rewrite might be in order.
(and of course, as you mention, as time goes on the code starts looking "bad" or "old" again - time for hopefully another cleanup rather than a rewrite)
And with Dell and others selling Linux pre-installed, future GNU/Linux users won't have to see the installer as well.