So basically, Google is pushing to completely remove me and replace me with a tiny script.:(
"Yeah", said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? - who'd know the difference?"
10.6 Snow Leopard has an interesting bug where it works until you get a new router that supports IPv6, and you configure it with your old SSID and password. WiFi appears to work... but then it doesn't... and then the whole OS beach-balls... you can't even shutdown and have to hard-power off.
The solution is to disable WiFi on the router, power on the Mac, go into network prefs and disable IPv6.
There's a video of the little prick here defending this shit. Another, more informative video here. He *claims* that this will allow them to invest in developing new treatments... right...
Does anyone know if Turing Pharma actually have research facilities?
The other thing is, if _say_ the event that killed the dinosaurs - lets assume it was the impact of large meteor - had happened 50-thousand years earlier, then _perhaps_ humans and human civilisation would have evolved earlier... and perhaps by now, we'd have wiped our selves out. Or if the dino-die-out occurred 50-thousand years later, we might be too busy building henges to have this discussion.
And that's all equally true of any other possible civilisations... they may have been and gone, or they might not be ready yet. Space is really really mindbogglingly big in... four-dimensions.
I'm wondering if Apple is also trying to control the second-hand market too?
Car analogy: As I understand it, car hire companies get new cars leased to them by the manufacturers at a nice rate so that (a). they don't need to worry about actually maintaining the cars... they only have them a short time, and (b). the manufacturer doesn't need to worry about N-thousand, almost new cars flooding the market in a year or so's time. Point-B would adversely affect the price of brand-new cars of the same model.
And considering how many units Apple ships, the second-hand market for iPhones is likely HUGE. It means they ship less new units than they might otherwise.
That said, they should probably lower the cost even though on the face of it, they would be making less profit, because of the above benefit (reduction of) the second-hand market. IMHO. Maybe they will if this experiment works?
It's not been my main browser for years, but I use linux and Mozilla said they were primarily targeting Windows with Firefox... so that maybe explains why it's always been kind of slow on my Ubuntu anyway.
But I do welcome this news. I've only ever really "played" with extension development, but Firefox was always much harder to work with than Chrome, not least because a lot of the documentation seemed to be out of date. I seem to recall the Firefox extension tutorial/example thing used the status bar... that had been removed a long long time before.
Also, I suspect Firefox will need this because I seem to recall hearing that Microsoft Chrome^H^H^H^H^H^HEdge was going to support Chrome extensions. At that point, MS-Edge would, for most users, be superior to Firefox.
I have a dev WordPress install running on localhost which hasn't been updated in a while - I just tried that site, and I get a page saying something like "site maintenance being performed - please try again in a minute", and sure enough, it worked shortly after.
I got an email from it saying it had updated to 4.2.4, but that 4.3 was also now available.
So it seems minor updates get auto-updated, but not major updates. Which is fair enough... but I don't know how long older releases get security patches for.
It infuriates me. I wish that rather than completely switching the lights off, they just turned them off at say 10pm, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12... take your pick, but it would at least benefit many people earlier in the evening, and that would still be a saving of > 50% over leaving them on all night.
^ this.
They brought in that extra character... can't remember his name, but he was a complete knob. I think from that point on, the entire series was doomed.
the lack of a CLI or web interface (a OSX / Win only config utility) is shitty
..is a total non-starter for me. I broadly speaking like Apple, but they do some really stupid things sometimes and this is most definitely one of them.
What I don't get about FAT32 is, if (say) I reverse engineered it and created my own code to read/write it, isn't that totally legal? And fair? And pretty much the same as we've been doing with legacy Office (.doc/.xls) files for years?
So is it that they're claiming some kind of patent on something "special" that FAT32 does? And presumably they couldn't/didn't do the same with Office because everything it does it pretty much just like any other office suite?
A zoom into a fractal stored as a 16-minute YouTube video must be the least efficient way to store an equation. If only there was some sort of a 'fractal compression' method.
Plus, the article states that they only zoom in by a Google squared... presumably because Google set that limit for YouTube.
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How do TalkTalk know how many records were downloaded, as TalkTalk didn't even notice when the original hack took place.
The police have arrested some children and asked them.
^ that Ashley Madison point really irritated me too! If I had mod points right now....
So basically, Google is pushing to completely remove me and replace me with a tiny script. :(
"Yeah", said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? - who'd know the difference?"
Linus Rants.
I would honestly love to see a biography that was based around his rants. It'd be an awesome read, I'm sure.
"A Torrent of Tirades" surely?
And who is Tom Henderson?
He's a wanker!*
* With sincere apologies to the actual Tom Henderson being referenced here!!
10.6 Snow Leopard has an interesting bug where it works until you get a new router that supports IPv6, and you configure it with your old SSID and password. WiFi appears to work... but then it doesn't... and then the whole OS beach-balls... you can't even shutdown and have to hard-power off.
The solution is to disable WiFi on the router, power on the Mac, go into network prefs and disable IPv6.
Details here if anyone ever needs it.
There's a video of the little prick here defending this shit. Another, more informative video here. He *claims* that this will allow them to invest in developing new treatments... right...
Does anyone know if Turing Pharma actually have research facilities?
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli defends HIV drugs price hike
What a sack of shit he is.
You're forgetting that people are stupid.
The other thing is, if _say_ the event that killed the dinosaurs - lets assume it was the impact of large meteor - had happened 50-thousand years earlier, then _perhaps_ humans and human civilisation would have evolved earlier... and perhaps by now, we'd have wiped our selves out. Or if the dino-die-out occurred 50-thousand years later, we might be too busy building henges to have this discussion.
And that's all equally true of any other possible civilisations... they may have been and gone, or they might not be ready yet. Space is really really mindbogglingly big in... four-dimensions.
I'm wondering if Apple is also trying to control the second-hand market too?
Car analogy: As I understand it, car hire companies get new cars leased to them by the manufacturers at a nice rate so that (a). they don't need to worry about actually maintaining the cars... they only have them a short time, and (b). the manufacturer doesn't need to worry about N-thousand, almost new cars flooding the market in a year or so's time. Point-B would adversely affect the price of brand-new cars of the same model.
And considering how many units Apple ships, the second-hand market for iPhones is likely HUGE. It means they ship less new units than they might otherwise.
That said, they should probably lower the cost even though on the face of it, they would be making less profit, because of the above benefit (reduction of) the second-hand market. IMHO. Maybe they will if this experiment works?
But now you can install *both* the Firefox and the Chrome version of the DupExtension now!
Dupe-your-dupes! Dupity-dup!
It's not been my main browser for years, but I use linux and Mozilla said they were primarily targeting Windows with Firefox... so that maybe explains why it's always been kind of slow on my Ubuntu anyway.
But I do welcome this news. I've only ever really "played" with extension development, but Firefox was always much harder to work with than Chrome, not least because a lot of the documentation seemed to be out of date. I seem to recall the Firefox extension tutorial/example thing used the status bar... that had been removed a long long time before.
Also, I suspect Firefox will need this because I seem to recall hearing that Microsoft Chrome^H^H^H^H^H^HEdge was going to support Chrome extensions. At that point, MS-Edge would, for most users, be superior to Firefox.
I have a dev WordPress install running on localhost which hasn't been updated in a while - I just tried that site, and I get a page saying something like "site maintenance being performed - please try again in a minute", and sure enough, it worked shortly after.
I got an email from it saying it had updated to 4.2.4, but that 4.3 was also now available.
So it seems minor updates get auto-updated, but not major updates. Which is fair enough... but I don't know how long older releases get security patches for.
It infuriates me. I wish that rather than completely switching the lights off, they just turned them off at say 10pm, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12... take your pick, but it would at least benefit many people earlier in the evening, and that would still be a saving of > 50% over leaving them on all night.
^ this.
They brought in that extra character... can't remember his name, but he was a complete knob. I think from that point on, the entire series was doomed.
Obviously this won't help people that need SSH via IPv6, but if like me, you don't, you can add the following line to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
...which has the effect of only listening on IPv4 interfaces.
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
The longest part of a trans-Atlantic flight is now going through security and queuing up for the runway.
Did genuinely lol at this - great point! They should've just developed a faster travelator. :D
Seem to recall there was (micro)Emacs included though.
Obviously, these days, we all do it the other way around and make use of the Amiga-heating-and-ac-emulator extension to Emacs.
the lack of a CLI or web interface (a OSX / Win only config utility) is shitty
..is a total non-starter for me. I broadly speaking like Apple, but they do some really stupid things sometimes and this is most definitely one of them.
their Midas poo-touch
If I had the points, I would sooo mod you up for that! I'm still giggling - thanks! :D
What I want is a universe where George W. is still president of the free world. Fool me once, shame on somebody...
There could even be a universe where GW is this awesome leader that everyone looks up to and admires, "Ace" Rimmer style!
What I don't get about FAT32 is, if (say) I reverse engineered it and created my own code to read/write it, isn't that totally legal? And fair? And pretty much the same as we've been doing with legacy Office (.doc/.xls) files for years?
So is it that they're claiming some kind of patent on something "special" that FAT32 does? And presumably they couldn't/didn't do the same with Office because everything it does it pretty much just like any other office suite?
A zoom into a fractal stored as a 16-minute YouTube video must be the least efficient way to store an equation. If only there was some sort of a 'fractal compression' method.
Plus, the article states that they only zoom in by a Google squared... presumably because Google set that limit for YouTube.
^ this