Agree. It took me about a month to find a pulse audio command line mixer tool to adjust the headphone gain (as opposed to overall volume) for a Plantronics USB headset, because none of the dozen or so GUI mixer tools I tried even realized it had a gain control, let alone allowed me to adjust it.
I have to use Windows at work, there's no way I'm using it at home as well. Have been running with various linuxes for the better part of a decade. Ignoring the wastage of a weekend trying to get Magicka to work under Wine, there is no game that would ever make me go back to Windows. Stupid AMD drivers!
Umm... StarCraft ][ works under Wine, even with the shitty AMD drivers. Visual Studio would be nice, though: MonoDevelop just sucks as an IDE, especially when Visual Studio + ReSharper is the competition.
it is hard to understand why after all the years of abuse from the Linux/Apple crowd the Microsoft fans would continue to come in and spend most of their time defending their fanboyness to people who wouldn't use windows if it came with a blowjob from Selma Hayek.
On the other hand, my iPad had 49 Calendar items for every single Contact's birthday until I deleted every all accounts from Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars and started again late last week, so even the Great Apple(tm) isn't immune to issues.
Please don't confuse a bump in a major version number with a "huge rewrite". It's marketing for "we added more features," no "we've rewritten this for the seventh time."
In the real world a UAV will need to deal with horizontal features like power lines, fences and fence rails - all things that trip up human aviators far too often. The first video in TFA showed it using the increasing horizontal (left-right) velocity of picture elements to correlate with something vertical like a tree approaching the monocular camera, but ended abruptly as the AR.Drone was approaching a wooden fence. I would have really liked to have seen it deal with that fence as well, say by momentarily increasing its altitude to clear it.
Most stories I see say that [insert favourite research here] will be ready for commercial production within five years. Finally, somebody's being honest and saying it won't be ready before the end of this decade.
Apple used to be an open company. Apple used to publish technical manuals, schematic diagrams, and source code for the firmware of the Apple I and ][ computers and the various peripherals. That would have been called Open Source had the term been in existence.
Since the Macintosh computer was introduced they've been going down the other path, publishing less and less information about their hardware and toolkits. By the time they transitioned through the Mac 128, 512, Plus, SE, SE-30 and Mac II lines into things like the LC series, Quadra, and iMacs they had lost all sense of sharing technical details of their hardware and encouraging people to develop add-on hardware and low-level software for it. Ever since iMacs they have been at the other end of the spectrum - an unassailable, unapproachable and most definitely Closed Source company. They take 30% of all sales through iTunes so that they can pay their lawyers to sue the crap out of everybody for everything, ensuring that they can continue to take 30% of all sales through iTunes.
I for one miss the Old Apple. I'm looking forward to the day where someone hands New Apple their heads and the door hits them on the arse on the way out.
The summary doesn't make it clear: these are two separate suits. From TFA:
1. Compete failed to remove personal data before transmitting it; failed to provide reasonable and appropriate data security; transmitted sensitive information from secure websites in readable text; failed to design and implement reasonable safeguards to protect consumers’ data; and failed to use readily available measures to mitigate the risk to consumers’ data. The proposed settlement order requires Compete and its clients to fully disclose the information they collect and get consumers’ express consent before they collect consumers’ data in the future, that the company delete or anonymize the use of the consumer data it already has collected, and that it provide directions to consumers for uninstalling its software. The settlement bars misrepresentations about the company’s privacy and data security practices and requires that it implement a comprehensive information security program with independent third-party audits every two years for 20 years.
2. KISSmetrics has also agreed to settle a lawsuit that charged them with using a tool that would "resuscitate" cookies deleted by privacy-minded users in order to surreptitiously track their online behavior. KISSmetrics has agreed to pay up to make the suit go away, but the two plaintiffs will get only $5,000 each, while the rest of the money - more than half a million dollars - will go to their lawyers for legal fees. The settlement does not contain an admission of guilt from KISSmetrics, but just a promise that it will not track users without their permission in the future.
Yes and this is one of the fuck-tarded things about SeaMonkey that caused me to stop using it. Occasionally I'd be typing text into a textedit form field, press Backspace to correct something and now I've lost everything on the form. Stupid intermittent bugs.
Are you perhaps assuming that the fixes for their concerns weren't vetoed by their managers or nixxed by the cost accountants upstairs? Coz, like, that never happens in the real world.
If users could donate to Mozilla and direct funding to particular components of Firefox and Thunderbird, perhaps we'd see some of the five-year-old+ bugs get fixed and Thunderbird would get an Exchange Web Services connector for mail/contacts/notes.
You forgot Cisco, who is so in-bed with the US government that they caused an ex-Cisco employee to be arrested while sitting in a Canadian court room. Glass houses, me thinks.
I think alvinrod's point was that if we were to come up with a way to make energy, say from gravity, we wouldn't need a big, complex Dyson sphere to live in. We could just spread among the planets (and stars) and setup power supplies wherever we land.
Yeah, it's an assumption, and it's perhaps not a 100% certanity that it is correct.
But I think we can agree that the odds of some alien race being familiar with the concept of integers, is a lot higher than the odds that they'll understand english.
Here's hoping. We only got a zero in our own mathematical language about 1,100 years ago.
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Agree. It took me about a month to find a pulse audio command line mixer tool to adjust the headphone gain (as opposed to overall volume) for a Plantronics USB headset, because none of the dozen or so GUI mixer tools I tried even realized it had a gain control, let alone allowed me to adjust it.
I have to use Windows at work, there's no way I'm using it at home as well. Have been running with various linuxes for the better part of a decade. Ignoring the wastage of a weekend trying to get Magicka to work under Wine, there is no game that would ever make me go back to Windows. Stupid AMD drivers!
Have you tried Mail on OSX? Or just about any Calendar/Contacts/Mail product that can talk to EWS (Exchange Web Services)?
Umm... StarCraft ][ works under Wine, even with the shitty AMD drivers. Visual Studio would be nice, though: MonoDevelop just sucks as an IDE, especially when Visual Studio + ReSharper is the competition.
it is hard to understand why after all the years of abuse from the Linux/Apple crowd the Microsoft fans would continue to come in and spend most of their time defending their fanboyness to people who wouldn't use windows if it came with a blowjob from Selma Hayek.
Tempting.
On the other hand, my iPad had 49 Calendar items for every single Contact's birthday until I deleted every all accounts from Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars and started again late last week, so even the Great Apple(tm) isn't immune to issues.
Please don't confuse a bump in a major version number with a "huge rewrite". It's marketing for "we added more features," no "we've rewritten this for the seventh time."
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 still had GDI-related vulnerabilities in WMF/EMF handling left over from the Windows 3.0 days... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms08-021
In the real world a UAV will need to deal with horizontal features like power lines, fences and fence rails - all things that trip up human aviators far too often. The first video in TFA showed it using the increasing horizontal (left-right) velocity of picture elements to correlate with something vertical like a tree approaching the monocular camera, but ended abruptly as the AR.Drone was approaching a wooden fence. I would have really liked to have seen it deal with that fence as well, say by momentarily increasing its altitude to clear it.
Warning: Scientific accuracy is not guaranteed. Please do not use this visualization for interstellar navigation.
Everybody starts out with OCPD. Most people eventually stop giving a shit.
Most stories I see say that [insert favourite research here] will be ready for commercial production within five years. Finally, somebody's being honest and saying it won't be ready before the end of this decade.
Special thanks to our volunteers, Linnea the GNU and Tristan the photographer, for helping make this action a huge success!
Glad to see Linnea "The Planet Killer" is doing something more positive with her life now.
Apple used to be an open company. Apple used to publish technical manuals, schematic diagrams, and source code for the firmware of the Apple I and ][ computers and the various peripherals. That would have been called Open Source had the term been in existence.
Since the Macintosh computer was introduced they've been going down the other path, publishing less and less information about their hardware and toolkits. By the time they transitioned through the Mac 128, 512, Plus, SE, SE-30 and Mac II lines into things like the LC series, Quadra, and iMacs they had lost all sense of sharing technical details of their hardware and encouraging people to develop add-on hardware and low-level software for it. Ever since iMacs they have been at the other end of the spectrum - an unassailable, unapproachable and most definitely Closed Source company. They take 30% of all sales through iTunes so that they can pay their lawyers to sue the crap out of everybody for everything, ensuring that they can continue to take 30% of all sales through iTunes.
I for one miss the Old Apple. I'm looking forward to the day where someone hands New Apple their heads and the door hits them on the arse on the way out.
The summary doesn't make it clear: these are two separate suits. From TFA:
1. Compete failed to remove personal data before transmitting it; failed to provide reasonable and appropriate data security; transmitted sensitive information from secure websites in readable text; failed to design and implement reasonable safeguards to protect consumers’ data; and failed to use readily available measures to mitigate the risk to consumers’ data. The proposed settlement order requires Compete and its clients to fully disclose the information they collect and get consumers’ express consent before they collect consumers’ data in the future, that the company delete or anonymize the use of the consumer data it already has collected, and that it provide directions to consumers for uninstalling its software. The settlement bars misrepresentations about the company’s privacy and data security practices and requires that it implement a comprehensive information security program with independent third-party audits every two years for 20 years.
2. KISSmetrics has also agreed to settle a lawsuit that charged them with using a tool that would "resuscitate" cookies deleted by privacy-minded users in order to surreptitiously track their online behavior. KISSmetrics has agreed to pay up to make the suit go away, but the two plaintiffs will get only $5,000 each, while the rest of the money - more than half a million dollars - will go to their lawyers for legal fees. The settlement does not contain an admission of guilt from KISSmetrics, but just a promise that it will not track users without their permission in the future.
No, I have a flying iCar. Whilst being revolutionary, it's magical and just works.
Yes and this is one of the fuck-tarded things about SeaMonkey that caused me to stop using it. Occasionally I'd be typing text into a textedit form field, press Backspace to correct something and now I've lost everything on the form. Stupid intermittent bugs.
It's a typo in the linked story. Item 64 of the ruling specifies Arial 11pt and Arial 14pt for particular things: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html
Are you perhaps assuming that the fixes for their concerns weren't vetoed by their managers or nixxed by the cost accountants upstairs? Coz, like, that never happens in the real world.
What if what he's doing sets off a cycle that prevents Global Warming and triggers an Ice Age instead?
Well, duh... then the people who are pushing Global Warming now will be able to revert the the Coming Ice Age they were pushing in the 1970's.
I guess the decades-old saying still holds true, "never install a point-O release."
If users could donate to Mozilla and direct funding to particular components of Firefox and Thunderbird, perhaps we'd see some of the five-year-old+ bugs get fixed and Thunderbird would get an Exchange Web Services connector for mail/contacts/notes.
You forgot Cisco, who is so in-bed with the US government that they caused an ex-Cisco employee to be arrested while sitting in a Canadian court room. Glass houses, me thinks.
I think alvinrod's point was that if we were to come up with a way to make energy, say from gravity, we wouldn't need a big, complex Dyson sphere to live in. We could just spread among the planets (and stars) and setup power supplies wherever we land.
Yeah, it's an assumption, and it's perhaps not a 100% certanity that it is correct.
But I think we can agree that the odds of some alien race being familiar with the concept of integers, is a lot higher than the odds that they'll understand english.
Here's hoping. We only got a zero in our own mathematical language about 1,100 years ago.
We have stairs.