I think they should do a movie featuring a female superhero like Wonder Woman, where the female is main star, not like CatWoman or one of the female X-Men. There's probably some choices better than Wonder Woman, but I don't follow comics that much. Guys would go watch it to see a woman in a skimpy costume, and lots of women would go see it as well. I think it could work.
People are F'in cheap. That's the bottom line. I've paid for all my Android apps (except the ones that are actually free anyway). Probably cost me around $30 for all the apps I have. People will readily spend $2 a day on coffee instead of making it at home themselves for pennies, but they can't be bothered to spend $0.99 on an app. I think the problem is, is that people just want to have everything. They aren't happy with just 10 games on their phone, they want 100. Most people I know with smart phones either have never bought an app, and just use it for Facebook and Twitter, or they pirate every app they own.
Exactly my thoughts. If you have people who don't know HTML and CSS well, you will get an unreadable mess regardless if you use WYSIWYG or hand code it. If you have people who really know what they are doing then hand-coding is best. But if you have a bunch of people who don't understand HTML that well, then you are probably better off going with WYSIWYG and dealing with the increased time to fix problems. At least you won't have to deal with people coding things by hand who end up forgetting to close tags, or do really stupid things like try to put a tag between two tags.
My phone (LG Optimus G2X) has Gingerbread ROM available had I bought it from a US carrier. However, since I bought it from a Canadian carrier, there was no Gingerbread update available for it. This is the sad state that Android is in. I still like Android, and would probably buy an Android phone again, but most likely not from LG. I would be very careful who I buy from. Next time around I'll probably get the cheapest phone I can find that supports tethering, and buy a 10 inch tablet.
That's almost like Microsoft maintaining Windows and device manufactures making PCs. The difference is that you can take an old computer and install a new version of Windows on it. MS has an interest in ensuring their new OS runs on old computers so that they can sell more copies of Windows. Google on the other hand doesn't sell Android to end users, so they have no incentive to ensure the new version of Android will run on old devices. The device manufacturers also don't make any money because they don't (can't?) charge for software updates. Apple on the other hand makes both the OS and the devices, and seems to have no problem upgrading the software on older models, as this is a selling point.
But the same could be said for passing your messages over lines owned by the phone companies. Or phone messages on the open air space. Most people have cordless phones in their house (if they have landlines at all) and those are most likely trivial to listen to. I'm pretty sure your neighbour, or the cops is not allowed to listen in on those conversations. Also, the phone company is not allowed to listen to your conversations simply because they own the lines. By talking on the phone, you are giving the phone company your data. Even more so if you leave a voice mail.
Small shops have trouble competing because they have a higher cost price. The bigger shops, who sell more get preferential pricing from the suppliers. Even if the small guy sold everything at cost, the big guy would still be able to undercut him because his cost price is much lower.
I still have XP on my desktop at home. Why? Because I haven't upgraded that machine in 4 years. It's actually running the same Windows XP copy I bought in 2006. I see no reason to upgrade it until it actually dies. I can still browse the web on it, watch videos, type up documents. Nothing has stopped working. I have a newer laptop that I use for most of my day-to-day stuff, even development. However, I still use the desktop quite a bit. I imagine there's quite a few people still using XP as computers have been fast enough for quite a while, and if nothing breaks, there's no reason to replace them.
I bet that most of these people never even knew there was an account to begin with. If it had credit card and banking details, I'm pretty sure that the password refers to the online billing system, and not something like the PPPoE password. Most of the people probably never even logged into their account if they were even aware they had one. Basically, the ISP was completely at fault here for setting up the default password for every account to be exactly the same.
If bittorrent was blocked, we'd all just go back to mirroring on smaller sites. For legal content such as Linux ISOs and game patches this would work just fine. I'm sure there's systems already in place to ensure that mirrors get new files promptly and that mirrors can add/remove themselves from the pool depending on how much bandwidth they want to donate. Wouldn't be as good as bittorrent, but a pretty good system could easily be built up around using HTTP as the main protocol. Taken to the next level, it wouldn't be that hard to implement bittorrent style downloading over http.
What do they do with Android phones? They have tethering built into the OS. I guess that they could disable it on their firmware, but it's trivally easy to root most Android phones and install whatever you want. You could also by an unlocked phone. I don't suppose Verizon forces you to buy a handset from them.
Basically it's emulation in the same way that UltraHLE was emulation. You emulate the system at a library level rather than emulating the raw hardware.
Fine if you don't mind potentially bricking your device. I almost bricked my device because my service provider calls my phone the LG Optimus 2X, even though it's an LG Optimus G2X. They are visually indistinguishable. After trying to install ClockWorkMod and selecting the wrong phone model, my phone wouldn't boot. I had to download the LG flashing tool and an LG Gingerbread file for TMobile to allow me to get a usable OS back on the thing. The only way to root 2.3 on my phone is to overwrite the LG Recovery mode using NVFlash with ClockworkMod Recovery. There's not way I'm overwriting that, because if something goes wrong with that, then I've completely bricked the phone. I'll probably do it in a couple years when I'm due for a new phone anyway, but this isn't something I'd risk on a new phone.
No drugs or stimulants shall be used by any member of the crew
Although the way that's written, it doesn't even permit the use of coffee or aspirin. Without an explicit list of banned substances, along with the amounts found in the blood/urine to be considered in violation of the rule, just about every person on the planet could be disqualified.
That's 2 posts about Contador in this article already. Sure he has plenty of allegations against him, but the whole sport is pretty much run off drugs. He was just caught.
I wonder if you could just beat the record by getting a real cyclist on the thing. Put one of those Olympic or TdF cyclists on the thing. They probably wouldn't even have to use their arms. You could probably design a helicopter with 2 people powering the helicopter. If one person can lift their own weight plus the weight of the craft, then 2 people could distribute the weight of the craft between them. So long as you didn't need too much extra parts to make up for the extra complexity of 2 (or more) riders. Definitely a lot of room for improvement and breaking this new record.
Yeah, you can get Chinese PSP clones (in outside appearance only) that support emulators and will run anything from NES games all the way up to PSone games. And they only cost $40. I've been seriously considering getting one for this winter when I'll be stuck on public transit again. I have a pretty good cell phone, but gaming on it just frankly sucks. Not that I'm disappointed. I didn't buy it for gaming. However, it's just amazing how many people use them for gaming. It's almost as if they've never played on a dedicated device, or it's been so long, that they forgot how much better the experience is.
It doesn't matter if the hardware isn't as powerful as smartphones. Because smartphone games don't have access to the bare hardware. This means there's a lot of speed problems on cellphone games. If I'm playing a somewhat graphical game, and a text message comes in, my dual-core 1GHz cellphone stutters for a few seconds. Definitely not fun when you're in an interesting part of the game. Sometimes, the apps/games run really slow, for no reason I can discern, possibly because of other apps running in the background. Cell phones really do make for a terrible gaming experience.
Which is one reason I'm actually interested in Microsoft Surface. Apparently it's going to have a USB port and support XBox controllers. Could open up a whole new realm of mobile gaming. All these tablets and phones support bluetooth, so it would be trivial to have a bluetooth gamepad. I don't know why there isn't more support for a simple controller that snaps onto your phone that allows you to play games. I know there's a couple that exist, but they seem to be expensive, and none of them have really gained much traction.
Yeah, but that kind of gets everyone else in a huff, and complaining about free trade and stuff. The American's were boycotting Canadian lumber because the Canadian rules are different. Because the logging companies didn't have to pay (more than an administrative fee) to log the land, whereas in the US, they auction off the logging rights to the highest bidder. If you start government-subsidizing large parts of your industry, then other countries might not like this. Granted the US would probably be able to sell a lot of tech products within it's own borders, but dumping a ton of money into industry can be against trade negotiations with other countries.
Put on a good pair of headphones, and process the audio correctly and you can hear in 3 dimensions. You only have 2 ears, and whether or not something is coming from behind you is all must a matter of how it actually sounds. I don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a sound system. So I got some decent headphones and watch movies with those. Even $50 headphones will outperform most $500 stereo systems, especially considering that there's no setup required, and you don't have to worry about other objects in the room interfering with the sound.
The problem is, is that X doesn't get updated until you actually restart the process. If you don't restart for many months, you haven't really updated anything. This is especially true if, for instance, you are updating Apache. If you leave it running, and don't restart it, the updates never actually get loaded, and your system is still vulnerable. Same goes for things like Kernel updates. I know that it's possible to swap the kernel out while running, but I don't think most distributions do that. To reload a new kernel, you have to reboot. I could see how this would be useful. Fedora is supposed to be a Desktop centric distribution. And while you could use it as a server, many of the features are aimed at desktop users. For advanced users, it's probably fine to let them restart certain processes whenever they want, but if they want to make inroads with the general public, then having the system reboot when it's necessary to make updates is probably a good thing. And if you're going to kick the user out of X to apply updates to that, you might as well be rebooting the entire machine, at least in a desktop setting.
You need smaller monitors, not bigger ones. I have 3 17 inch 3:4 (not widescreen) monitors at work and I love it. I can easily see 3 things at once, and I don't have to spend hours moving windows around. Just move stuff to the desired monitor, and maximize it. I find that having large monitors creates problems (especially when designing web applications), because you have to be careful that you aren't making the page too wide. If you have a small monitor to begin with it's hard to design pages that are too big. I have co-workers with wide screen monitors and they are constantly designing pages or recommending changes that would require horizontal scrolling.
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I think they should do a movie featuring a female superhero like Wonder Woman, where the female is main star, not like CatWoman or one of the female X-Men. There's probably some choices better than Wonder Woman, but I don't follow comics that much. Guys would go watch it to see a woman in a skimpy costume, and lots of women would go see it as well. I think it could work.
People are F'in cheap. That's the bottom line. I've paid for all my Android apps (except the ones that are actually free anyway). Probably cost me around $30 for all the apps I have. People will readily spend $2 a day on coffee instead of making it at home themselves for pennies, but they can't be bothered to spend $0.99 on an app. I think the problem is, is that people just want to have everything. They aren't happy with just 10 games on their phone, they want 100. Most people I know with smart phones either have never bought an app, and just use it for Facebook and Twitter, or they pirate every app they own.
Exactly my thoughts. If you have people who don't know HTML and CSS well, you will get an unreadable mess regardless if you use WYSIWYG or hand code it. If you have people who really know what they are doing then hand-coding is best. But if you have a bunch of people who don't understand HTML that well, then you are probably better off going with WYSIWYG and dealing with the increased time to fix problems. At least you won't have to deal with people coding things by hand who end up forgetting to close tags, or do really stupid things like try to put a
tag between two tags.
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My phone (LG Optimus G2X) has Gingerbread ROM available had I bought it from a US carrier. However, since I bought it from a Canadian carrier, there was no Gingerbread update available for it. This is the sad state that Android is in. I still like Android, and would probably buy an Android phone again, but most likely not from LG. I would be very careful who I buy from. Next time around I'll probably get the cheapest phone I can find that supports tethering, and buy a 10 inch tablet.
That's almost like Microsoft maintaining Windows and device manufactures making PCs. The difference is that you can take an old computer and install a new version of Windows on it. MS has an interest in ensuring their new OS runs on old computers so that they can sell more copies of Windows. Google on the other hand doesn't sell Android to end users, so they have no incentive to ensure the new version of Android will run on old devices. The device manufacturers also don't make any money because they don't (can't?) charge for software updates. Apple on the other hand makes both the OS and the devices, and seems to have no problem upgrading the software on older models, as this is a selling point.
But the same could be said for passing your messages over lines owned by the phone companies. Or phone messages on the open air space. Most people have cordless phones in their house (if they have landlines at all) and those are most likely trivial to listen to. I'm pretty sure your neighbour, or the cops is not allowed to listen in on those conversations. Also, the phone company is not allowed to listen to your conversations simply because they own the lines. By talking on the phone, you are giving the phone company your data. Even more so if you leave a voice mail.
Small shops have trouble competing because they have a higher cost price. The bigger shops, who sell more get preferential pricing from the suppliers. Even if the small guy sold everything at cost, the big guy would still be able to undercut him because his cost price is much lower.
I still have XP on my desktop at home. Why? Because I haven't upgraded that machine in 4 years. It's actually running the same Windows XP copy I bought in 2006. I see no reason to upgrade it until it actually dies. I can still browse the web on it, watch videos, type up documents. Nothing has stopped working. I have a newer laptop that I use for most of my day-to-day stuff, even development. However, I still use the desktop quite a bit. I imagine there's quite a few people still using XP as computers have been fast enough for quite a while, and if nothing breaks, there's no reason to replace them.
I bet that most of these people never even knew there was an account to begin with. If it had credit card and banking details, I'm pretty sure that the password refers to the online billing system, and not something like the PPPoE password. Most of the people probably never even logged into their account if they were even aware they had one. Basically, the ISP was completely at fault here for setting up the default password for every account to be exactly the same.
If bittorrent was blocked, we'd all just go back to mirroring on smaller sites. For legal content such as Linux ISOs and game patches this would work just fine. I'm sure there's systems already in place to ensure that mirrors get new files promptly and that mirrors can add/remove themselves from the pool depending on how much bandwidth they want to donate. Wouldn't be as good as bittorrent, but a pretty good system could easily be built up around using HTTP as the main protocol. Taken to the next level, it wouldn't be that hard to implement bittorrent style downloading over http.
What do they do with Android phones? They have tethering built into the OS. I guess that they could disable it on their firmware, but it's trivally easy to root most Android phones and install whatever you want. You could also by an unlocked phone. I don't suppose Verizon forces you to buy a handset from them.
It's already been done
Basically it's emulation in the same way that UltraHLE was emulation. You emulate the system at a library level rather than emulating the raw hardware.
Fine if you don't mind potentially bricking your device. I almost bricked my device because my service provider calls my phone the LG Optimus 2X, even though it's an LG Optimus G2X. They are visually indistinguishable. After trying to install ClockWorkMod and selecting the wrong phone model, my phone wouldn't boot. I had to download the LG flashing tool and an LG Gingerbread file for TMobile to allow me to get a usable OS back on the thing. The only way to root 2.3 on my phone is to overwrite the LG Recovery mode using NVFlash with ClockworkMod Recovery. There's not way I'm overwriting that, because if something goes wrong with that, then I've completely bricked the phone. I'll probably do it in a couple years when I'm due for a new phone anyway, but this isn't something I'd risk on a new phone.
Although the way that's written, it doesn't even permit the use of coffee or aspirin. Without an explicit list of banned substances, along with the amounts found in the blood/urine to be considered in violation of the rule, just about every person on the planet could be disqualified.
That's 2 posts about Contador in this article already. Sure he has plenty of allegations against him, but the whole sport is pretty much run off drugs. He was just caught.
So, no stored food energy allowed? How would one power the thing at all?
I wonder if you could just beat the record by getting a real cyclist on the thing. Put one of those Olympic or TdF cyclists on the thing. They probably wouldn't even have to use their arms. You could probably design a helicopter with 2 people powering the helicopter. If one person can lift their own weight plus the weight of the craft, then 2 people could distribute the weight of the craft between them. So long as you didn't need too much extra parts to make up for the extra complexity of 2 (or more) riders. Definitely a lot of room for improvement and breaking this new record.
Yeah, you can get Chinese PSP clones (in outside appearance only) that support emulators and will run anything from NES games all the way up to PSone games. And they only cost $40. I've been seriously considering getting one for this winter when I'll be stuck on public transit again. I have a pretty good cell phone, but gaming on it just frankly sucks. Not that I'm disappointed. I didn't buy it for gaming. However, it's just amazing how many people use them for gaming. It's almost as if they've never played on a dedicated device, or it's been so long, that they forgot how much better the experience is.
It doesn't matter if the hardware isn't as powerful as smartphones. Because smartphone games don't have access to the bare hardware. This means there's a lot of speed problems on cellphone games. If I'm playing a somewhat graphical game, and a text message comes in, my dual-core 1GHz cellphone stutters for a few seconds. Definitely not fun when you're in an interesting part of the game. Sometimes, the apps/games run really slow, for no reason I can discern, possibly because of other apps running in the background. Cell phones really do make for a terrible gaming experience.
Which is one reason I'm actually interested in Microsoft Surface. Apparently it's going to have a USB port and support XBox controllers. Could open up a whole new realm of mobile gaming. All these tablets and phones support bluetooth, so it would be trivial to have a bluetooth gamepad. I don't know why there isn't more support for a simple controller that snaps onto your phone that allows you to play games. I know there's a couple that exist, but they seem to be expensive, and none of them have really gained much traction.
Yeah, but that kind of gets everyone else in a huff, and complaining about free trade and stuff. The American's were boycotting Canadian lumber because the Canadian rules are different. Because the logging companies didn't have to pay (more than an administrative fee) to log the land, whereas in the US, they auction off the logging rights to the highest bidder. If you start government-subsidizing large parts of your industry, then other countries might not like this. Granted the US would probably be able to sell a lot of tech products within it's own borders, but dumping a ton of money into industry can be against trade negotiations with other countries.
This!
Put on a good pair of headphones, and process the audio correctly and you can hear in 3 dimensions. You only have 2 ears, and whether or not something is coming from behind you is all must a matter of how it actually sounds. I don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a sound system. So I got some decent headphones and watch movies with those. Even $50 headphones will outperform most $500 stereo systems, especially considering that there's no setup required, and you don't have to worry about other objects in the room interfering with the sound.
The problem is, is that X doesn't get updated until you actually restart the process. If you don't restart for many months, you haven't really updated anything. This is especially true if, for instance, you are updating Apache. If you leave it running, and don't restart it, the updates never actually get loaded, and your system is still vulnerable. Same goes for things like Kernel updates. I know that it's possible to swap the kernel out while running, but I don't think most distributions do that. To reload a new kernel, you have to reboot. I could see how this would be useful. Fedora is supposed to be a Desktop centric distribution. And while you could use it as a server, many of the features are aimed at desktop users. For advanced users, it's probably fine to let them restart certain processes whenever they want, but if they want to make inroads with the general public, then having the system reboot when it's necessary to make updates is probably a good thing. And if you're going to kick the user out of X to apply updates to that, you might as well be rebooting the entire machine, at least in a desktop setting.
You need smaller monitors, not bigger ones. I have 3 17 inch 3:4 (not widescreen) monitors at work and I love it. I can easily see 3 things at once, and I don't have to spend hours moving windows around. Just move stuff to the desired monitor, and maximize it. I find that having large monitors creates problems (especially when designing web applications), because you have to be careful that you aren't making the page too wide. If you have a small monitor to begin with it's hard to design pages that are too big. I have co-workers with wide screen monitors and they are constantly designing pages or recommending changes that would require horizontal scrolling.