That's all I want, badly, very badly. It's half the reason I got the PS3 when I did, XBMC was in the early stages of PS3 support, however the idiots at Sony blocked the GPU acceleration for the video so the team abandoned it once the 3D loophole was closed in linux. I don't know the full term, something along the lines of a hypervisor. Then they closed off linux all together.
I love it as a gaming machine but I wish it could match my Xbox1. The Ps3 hardware is amazing, XBMC would be brilliant on it.
Yep, I had a recent run in with a mod at Wiki, I think his username was JzG or "Guy" - something like that. I was an ass in an article (deliberately) and he gave me fair warning. Then someone else from a US ip address reverted back to my shitty version, he didn't even check the logs and banned me for it permenantly.
The guy was a complete idiot, no way to discuss with him, my case is an exception since I mostly deserved the initial trouble, however I've heard many similar stories of completely tightfisted asshole moderators. Fuck them.
You / someone had to go through a point of telling people "hey you should try facebook" same with google voice and all social networks. Now, facebook has hit huge huge penetration. I'd almost say/most/ 15 to 40 y/o westerners, using the internet are on facebook, speculation but honestly - few people I know don't have it and I'm 32 and know a lot of hateful nerds who wouldn't normally sign up for stuff like that.
You don't have push notifications on your phone? Maybe in the US, SMS's are free but where I am they vary from 5 to 30cents - that's a lot of money over thousands of tweets.
How did this get +3 on the moderation? I'm going to guess twitter haters? Not all huge sites are shrinking in size, look at facebook, youtube, google themselves.
Twitter is one of the greatest new forms of communications in the last 20 years. My first 2 tweets stayed for 6+ months iirc and were just "twitter is lame" and "update: twitter is still a wank" or something like that. I didn't 'get' twitter.
Now that I do, I do not understand why on earth SMS still exists, this website / application(s) allows me to talk to people instantly across the planet with a 0$ fee (unlike SMS) and I can include pictures, links or whatever, I can use trending topics to see what is big in the world right this second! (yes, that's big) When someone posts "is that an earthquake?!" I go to twitter, type in earthquake and can have confirmation in seconds
Twitter allows manufacturers, famous people and important people to instantly share messages and thoughts with people. There is an awful awful lot of stupid and irrelivant shit, mark my words I understand this but inbetween all that it's amazing, utterly amazing.
I can see my friends have conversations - and yes they can do it privately but they can also do it publically, that ability to see their conversation - is almost like being at a resteraunt or bar where everyone is having a chat - my ears are tuning in (if I desire) to their conversation and I can at any moment join in, all wirelessly, all instantly - in any timezone.
I don't often praise things and it sure as shit took me a while to get it, infact until you literally have an account and follow a couple of people, I totally get hating on it - the interface is silly to understand at first, once you do get it - it's incredible, utterly incredible.
My only problem with twitter, or rather their only problem is that I simply can not fathom how they can monetize it - in any way. Google however purchased Youtube and I distinctly recall me saying "what the fuck is google thinking? 4 billion? That's stupid - this is googles first big mistake" - I mean there was no ads back then and it was 5 years ago, bandwidth is fucking expensive and they just paid money to serve up terabytes of data a day, why?! Anyhow: TLDR is that twitter should utterly replace SMS, without question, SMS is completely dead to me, all my friends with twitter I can tweet in seconds, it's a fucking incredibly powerful and clever communications tool, once you learn it, you'll love it.
Really, flamebait? Do people not understand sarcasm? Do people on slashdot ACTUALLY believe he commited those rapes in Sweden? or do we have dense mods again this week? Idiots. (this is flamebait, you fucking morons)
Yep, women from all across the world now are going to be raped by Julian, I mean even if he's never been to the country I bet it will happen. This man must be stopped!
I frequently forget the correct url to google language tools. Every time I type in "spanish to english" or something like that, it always seems to recommend the competition first, if anything I wish theirs would be the top result.
Also, on the slim chance that someone from google is reading, for the love of jebus, can you let googlers with an account setup a domain filter on their search results? PLEASE? So sick of experts-exchange and other crappy sites.
I find it hilarious how many butthurt Apple fans have moderated my post as overrated just because I've been enthusiastic about a competing product, can't have anyone say anything negative at all, it must be a troll! Your idiotic attitude is yet another reason to leave, I don't need groupthink thanks.
Exactly this, the buttons in the same place, always is handy - plus obviously they perform consistent functions. I think infact I'd even like a quick camera (or assignable) side button to boot if I could.
I have owned an iphone 3g, 3gs and an iphone 4. Recently the attitude from apple, in my opinion has been worse than Microsoft, some may claim otherwise but the 'our way or the highway' and general attitude specifically from Jobs himself in emails to people (on the occassions they leak out) is just awful.
The overall lock in bugged me a little but overall I was generally quite happy with my iphone, the itunes aspect I detested mind you. Every now and then something would bug me, for example - at work when supporting my clients, I can backup and/selectively/ restore what I want to their BlackBerries - the iphone however is an utter nightmare for anyone with any real technical knowledge and wantign to do something even slightly out of the box. The lack of SMS tone changing (finally here, christ!) was ridiculous. I also feel the lack buttons is holding the iphone back, despite what 'focus groups' claim about the buttons, you simply end up wasting screen real estate with onscreen buttons. I don't think the iphone needs 12 buttons mind you but even just THREE might be nice on the device - people are dumb but not that dumb.
So anyhow, I decide I might try Android out, I copied a guy at work and purchased a HTC HD2 (Leo) - which is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone which can have Android hacked on to it if you fiddle about. I have done so and been most impressed, there's a few small niggly issues some of which may be from using a non native Android phone, some are just design issues but overall I'm substantially more impressed than I expected to be.
There's an app called Appbrain http://www.appbrain.com/ which is kind of like an all in one sync tool, once installed it catalogues all you have installs and ties it to an account (in my case my google sign in) - I can add and remove applications from that website, anywhere in the world and sync entirely over 3g. It handles the updating of apps, it provides a better search interfact than the stock market and feedback too. It's really nice. Someone showed me http://www.appbrain.com/wallpaper that today and I thought 'oh how cute, it's going to queue up a new background to download next time I open the application and run a sync' - only not, I clicked a button on the website, picked up my phone about 2 seconds later and it had pushed the picture down and set it as my background already. - incredible I can take a photo of a Qcode (qrcode?) image and it too can queue up the installation of an application just like that.
I can add widgets to the desktop and while many are a complete waste of memory and cpu time, there are some genuinely useful weather / data usage / stock information I can drop on the home screen or a few screens off it. I can set the tones I like, I can share my device as a wifi access point - the list goes on.
It's not without it's flaws, sadly I don't know if the small niggles I've had have been due to being non native or not but I hope to learn over the coming days. Also the way they handle podcasts boggles my mind, I do really just wish the music app searched in/podcast/ for podcasts/music/ for music and so on - nothing comes close to apples music player unfortunately. Fortunately for me I don't listen to much anyhow. Email client searching actually works for gmail and the vast majority of my apps are on the device - tweetdeck, email, facebook, rdp clients, shazam, ebay, skype - it's all there and in 4.3" on this model, not 3.5" - honestly at 32, with my eyes - that's a bloody godsend. We use these things more and more, I think 3.5 is really holding back the iphone, resolution or not (as I said, I own a 4, I know how pretty it is, it's just too small)
I could go on for ages, I'm really pretty happy overall though and the hippy open source fanboy in me says it's only going to get better with time, let's hope I'm right.
Oh god you crybabies won't let anything slide. Shit happens - people make mistakes. If you want a console, Sony or Microsoft - your choice, I just enjoy the games.
Ok so buy one now then? They are cheaper? The list of games is quite good now, the exclusives are really nice. The graphics for most games are neck and neck on 360 / PS3. The online is free, the device is quiet, it plays blu ray movies, it plays HD MKV's over the network, some of the PSN downloadable games are brilliant etc.
I see the childish nerds have been moderating again, yep GIVE US OUR FAST INTERNET WHAAAA WHAAA How many Aussies now have 8 to 20mbit connections with fairly reasonable download limits? Quite a fucking few actually considering the size of the country.
Think about the future and not your own selfish download quota, as for the dumbass with his housing problem 'all taken care of' - fuck you, there's a hell of a lot of us who are fucked and it's getting worse, you selfish cunt.
Yeah it's costing us FORTY THREE BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS. We have a water crises, housing crises, we are making all our money from a mineral boom in the west which eventually end and then what? Seriously, fix this housing issue - I don't give a fuck if it's a 'states' problem - this is vastly more important than having fibre internet. Yes we need to ditch the copper network but do we need to do it right now? for forty three billion dollars? How much sustainable energy is currently being produced by this country.
Argh - and no before you say it, I'm not a liberal, not even bloody close.
Thank you so much - how the hell did the new one get turned back on? I remember them rolling out a shitty system a year or two ago which I disabled, for some reason it just re-enabled itself. Slashdot is usable again.
Can someone please tell me how to get back to the old comment system? I'm checking slashdot, daily as usual - looking forward to reading insightful comments and lo and behold each day I forget this abomination is here, it's awful.
I've tried emailing the feedback address, it bounced surprisingly, I'm about to give up on the site. What's the solution here guys. Sorry to be offtopic but I can't be the only one.
Now will SC2 stop showing my real name in the UI? It's bad for streaming and screenshots. Also when can everyone play with each other on the GLOBAL INTERNET in all regions? Meh.
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That's all I want, badly, very badly.
It's half the reason I got the PS3 when I did, XBMC was in the early stages of PS3 support, however the idiots at Sony blocked the GPU acceleration for the video so the team abandoned it once the 3D loophole was closed in linux. I don't know the full term, something along the lines of a hypervisor.
Then they closed off linux all together.
I love it as a gaming machine but I wish it could match my Xbox1. The Ps3 hardware is amazing, XBMC would be brilliant on it.
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Yep, I had a recent run in with a mod at Wiki, I think his username was JzG or "Guy" - something like that.
I was an ass in an article (deliberately) and he gave me fair warning. Then someone else from a US ip address reverted back to my shitty version, he didn't even check the logs and banned me for it permenantly.
The guy was a complete idiot, no way to discuss with him, my case is an exception since I mostly deserved the initial trouble, however I've heard many similar stories of completely tightfisted asshole moderators.
Fuck them.
You / someone had to go through a point of telling people "hey you should try facebook" same with google voice and all social networks. /most/ 15 to 40 y/o westerners, using the internet are on facebook, speculation but honestly - few people I know don't have it and I'm 32 and know a lot of hateful nerds who wouldn't normally sign up for stuff like that.
Now, facebook has hit huge huge penetration. I'd almost say
Twitter is here to stay.
You don't have push notifications on your phone?
Maybe in the US, SMS's are free but where I am they vary from 5 to 30cents - that's a lot of money over thousands of tweets.
Data is the future, SMS packets are dead soon.
No twitter CAN use SMS, do you not have data on your mobile phone plan?
Are *YOU* trolling?
How did this get +3 on the moderation? I'm going to guess twitter haters?
Not all huge sites are shrinking in size, look at facebook, youtube, google themselves.
Twitter is one of the greatest new forms of communications in the last 20 years.
My first 2 tweets stayed for 6+ months iirc and were just "twitter is lame" and "update: twitter is still a wank" or something like that.
I didn't 'get' twitter.
Now that I do, I do not understand why on earth SMS still exists, this website / application(s) allows me to talk to people instantly across the planet with a 0$ fee (unlike SMS) and I can include pictures, links or whatever, I can use trending topics to see what is big in the world right this second! (yes, that's big)
When someone posts "is that an earthquake?!" I go to twitter, type in earthquake and can have confirmation in seconds
Twitter allows manufacturers, famous people and important people to instantly share messages and thoughts with people. There is an awful awful lot of stupid and irrelivant shit, mark my words I understand this but inbetween all that it's amazing, utterly amazing.
I can see my friends have conversations - and yes they can do it privately but they can also do it publically, that ability to see their conversation - is almost like being at a resteraunt or bar where everyone is having a chat - my ears are tuning in (if I desire) to their conversation and I can at any moment join in, all wirelessly, all instantly - in any timezone.
I don't often praise things and it sure as shit took me a while to get it, infact until you literally have an account and follow a couple of people, I totally get hating on it - the interface is silly to understand at first, once you do get it - it's incredible, utterly incredible.
My only problem with twitter, or rather their only problem is that I simply can not fathom how they can monetize it - in any way. Google however purchased Youtube and I distinctly recall me saying "what the fuck is google thinking? 4 billion? That's stupid - this is googles first big mistake" - I mean there was no ads back then and it was 5 years ago, bandwidth is fucking expensive and they just paid money to serve up terabytes of data a day, why?!
Anyhow: TLDR is that twitter should utterly replace SMS, without question, SMS is completely dead to me, all my friends with twitter I can tweet in seconds, it's a fucking incredibly powerful and clever communications tool, once you learn it, you'll love it.
Robble Robble Robble!
I could mod you down but then you wouldn't know why! /earth/ are you talking about? No, just no.
Immobiliser for all cars? What on
Really, flamebait? Do people not understand sarcasm? Do people on slashdot ACTUALLY believe he commited those rapes in Sweden? or do we have dense mods again this week?
Idiots. (this is flamebait, you fucking morons)
Yep, women from all across the world now are going to be raped by Julian, I mean even if he's never been to the country I bet it will happen. This man must be stopped!
I frequently forget the correct url to google language tools.
Every time I type in "spanish to english" or something like that, it always seems to recommend the competition first, if anything I wish theirs would be the top result.
Also, on the slim chance that someone from google is reading, for the love of jebus, can you let googlers with an account setup a domain filter on their search results? PLEASE? So sick of experts-exchange and other crappy sites.
You're completely wrong, SMS tones have not been adjustable until very recently (4.1 or 4.2 I think) how you can not know this is beyond me.
I find it hilarious how many butthurt Apple fans have moderated my post as overrated just because I've been enthusiastic about a competing product, can't have anyone say anything negative at all, it must be a troll! Your idiotic attitude is yet another reason to leave, I don't need groupthink thanks.
Exactly this, the buttons in the same place, always is handy - plus obviously they perform consistent functions.
I think infact I'd even like a quick camera (or assignable) side button to boot if I could.
I have owned an iphone 3g, 3gs and an iphone 4.
Recently the attitude from apple, in my opinion has been worse than Microsoft, some may claim otherwise but the 'our way or the highway' and general attitude specifically from Jobs himself in emails to people (on the occassions they leak out) is just awful.
The overall lock in bugged me a little but overall I was generally quite happy with my iphone, the itunes aspect I detested mind you. /selectively/ restore what I want to their BlackBerries - the iphone however is an utter nightmare for anyone with any real technical knowledge and wantign to do something even slightly out of the box. The lack of SMS tone changing (finally here, christ!) was ridiculous.
Every now and then something would bug me, for example - at work when supporting my clients, I can backup and
I also feel the lack buttons is holding the iphone back, despite what 'focus groups' claim about the buttons, you simply end up wasting screen real estate with onscreen buttons. I don't think the iphone needs 12 buttons mind you but even just THREE might be nice on the device - people are dumb but not that dumb.
So anyhow, I decide I might try Android out, I copied a guy at work and purchased a HTC HD2 (Leo) - which is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone which can have Android hacked on to it if you fiddle about.
I have done so and been most impressed, there's a few small niggly issues some of which may be from using a non native Android phone, some are just design issues but overall I'm substantially more impressed than I expected to be.
There's an app called Appbrain http://www.appbrain.com/ which is kind of like an all in one sync tool, once installed it catalogues all you have installs and ties it to an account (in my case my google sign in) - I can add and remove applications from that website, anywhere in the world and sync entirely over 3g. It handles the updating of apps, it provides a better search interfact than the stock market and feedback too. It's really nice.
Someone showed me http://www.appbrain.com/wallpaper that today and I thought 'oh how cute, it's going to queue up a new background to download next time I open the application and run a sync' - only not, I clicked a button on the website, picked up my phone about 2 seconds later and it had pushed the picture down and set it as my background already. - incredible
I can take a photo of a Qcode (qrcode?) image and it too can queue up the installation of an application just like that.
I can add widgets to the desktop and while many are a complete waste of memory and cpu time, there are some genuinely useful weather / data usage / stock information I can drop on the home screen or a few screens off it.
I can set the tones I like, I can share my device as a wifi access point - the list goes on.
It's not without it's flaws, sadly I don't know if the small niggles I've had have been due to being non native or not but I hope to learn over the coming days. Also the way they handle podcasts boggles my mind, I do really just wish the music app searched in /podcast/ for podcasts /music/ for music and so on - nothing comes close to apples music player unfortunately. Fortunately for me I don't listen to much anyhow.
Email client searching actually works for gmail and the vast majority of my apps are on the device - tweetdeck, email, facebook, rdp clients, shazam, ebay, skype - it's all there and in 4.3" on this model, not 3.5" - honestly at 32, with my eyes - that's a bloody godsend.
We use these things more and more, I think 3.5 is really holding back the iphone, resolution or not (as I said, I own a 4, I know how pretty it is, it's just too small)
I could go on for ages, I'm really pretty happy overall though and the hippy open source fanboy in me says it's only going to get better with time, let's hope I'm right.
Oh god you crybabies won't let anything slide. Shit happens - people make mistakes.
If you want a console, Sony or Microsoft - your choice, I just enjoy the games.
Ok so buy one now then? They are cheaper? The list of games is quite good now, the exclusives are really nice. The graphics for most games are neck and neck on 360 / PS3. The online is free, the device is quiet, it plays blu ray movies, it plays HD MKV's over the network, some of the PSN downloadable games are brilliant etc.
I see the childish nerds have been moderating again, yep GIVE US OUR FAST INTERNET WHAAAA WHAAA
How many Aussies now have 8 to 20mbit connections with fairly reasonable download limits? Quite a fucking few actually considering the size of the country.
Think about the future and not your own selfish download quota, as for the dumbass with his housing problem 'all taken care of' - fuck you, there's a hell of a lot of us who are fucked and it's getting worse, you selfish cunt.
Yeah it's costing us FORTY THREE BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.
We have a water crises, housing crises, we are making all our money from a mineral boom in the west which eventually end and then what?
Seriously, fix this housing issue - I don't give a fuck if it's a 'states' problem - this is vastly more important than having fibre internet.
Yes we need to ditch the copper network but do we need to do it right now? for forty three billion dollars?
How much sustainable energy is currently being produced by this country.
Argh - and no before you say it, I'm not a liberal, not even bloody close.
Thank you so much - how the hell did the new one get turned back on? I remember them rolling out a shitty system a year or two ago which I disabled, for some reason it just re-enabled itself.
Slashdot is usable again.
Can someone please tell me how to get back to the old comment system? I'm checking slashdot, daily as usual - looking forward to reading insightful comments and lo and behold each day I forget this abomination is here, it's awful.
I've tried emailing the feedback address, it bounced surprisingly, I'm about to give up on the site. What's the solution here guys.
Sorry to be offtopic but I can't be the only one.
Ok well that's piqued my interest, never intended on donating before, now I do. How can I go about this?
Now will SC2 stop showing my real name in the UI? It's bad for streaming and screenshots.
Also when can everyone play with each other on the GLOBAL INTERNET in all regions?
Meh.
You telling me they can't do that? Glad I haven't switched, maybe 2011 is the year for Android for me :/