He wrote populous 30 years ago then did the same game ever since. I couldn't stand the boring game but it was popular at the time. Really, his interviews, especially in the last year or so, have been a lot more fun than the games ever were. After the last one or two I wondered if he should be on suicide watch.
Came here to read/make this comment. Apparantly Sony are dropping the mag port. USB sockets are fragile as fuck, and anyone who puts a mag port or some other alternative method of charging that obviates the need to use the usb port a few thousand times over the life of the device (when they only last a few hundred) gets my money.
I paid £35 for it, and I removed the OS in favour of Cyanogenmod. I use it like I'd use a phone or a small tablet, and it works. Email, some games, guitar tuner/metronome, surfing, facebook messenger. Basically everything I'd put on my phone of main tablet if I didn't mind install all sorts of crap and caning the battery. It's also great for PDFs/comics/graphic novels; I have a kindle for reason serious stuff but PDF support is poor on it, as is zooming in and out. It's great on the Fire; no speed problems at all.
I have no idea why you can't read slashdot with it. I know that the mobile site is a piece of shit, and probably always will be ("you have 5 points and they expired 12 days ago", and ajax-style updates with no feedback so you think it's crashed), but it's not better on my nexus 10 or z3. Perhaps you're still using the stock os which doesn't let you install firefox.
This is some work performed on a specific device. You're just....typing.
"but doesn't lot of other devices do that, regardless of origin of company that makes, designs, or markets, them ( esp device that are much hyped and costs lot more than this)?"
Doesn't they? I don't know. Where's the report on that? Perhaps we should add them up. Do some send their data to spain, france, brazil? Who knows?
I switched to firefox recently. It's great; the browser for android (chrome's out of the running as it doesn't support plugins,so you're stick with whatever ads or javascript the sites (and the ads running on the sites) feel like serving up) is the best out there, and the desktop one is great too. I hear people whining about firefox occasionally but i don't get it. Perhaps they're running hardware older than the 5 year old desktop i'm running.
> So there's no way you need a 10kW for tracking; anything far enough away that you need a 10kW laser to track > it would be way out of range of your guns.
Tracking it to provide accurate location data to troops, drones, missiles, ships etc nearer it, or which may eventually be nearer to it?
People say this sort of thing about anything India does. The US and Russia didn't succeed at first attempt to put people into orbit, get them on the moon safely etc precisely because they were doing it first. They were doing the R&D, putting up the money and the people. India just - essentially - bought a 3d printer, made a rocket and launched it. It's similar to the reason elvis impersonators aren't all as famous or respected as elvis was. Once you've got the technology it's not important whether you then target the moon, venus etc.
Windows has a store? I'll have to fire up my windows vm and take a look. If I can find it; it's been a while. I'm sure I have a windows vm somewhere. You know, for when I really need to use windows for something.
> Serve a script-less ad from your own servers without external tracking, and I won't even bother blocking them.
I'd block them if there were obtrusive, animated, were designed to look like system dialogues, were click-baity etc. We don't need ads that look like they were designed for 80's magazines on websites is 2016.
To be honest, I think it's too late and most people are just going to block them all. The internet was great but frankly I can do without most of it; i'll keep facebook for the chat; email, netflix, online shopping/banking and some news if it's free. If the choice is pay or look at ads I'll do what I did with tv; just say fuck it and move on. Slashdot/hacker news etc can come and go. Something will always turn up in its place, and if it doesn't, it doesn't.
You can't compare some old version of something with some new version of something. People always spoke about micropayments but they either didn't exist, sucked, or no-one used them. If there was a standard way of paying sites tiny amounts of money per page/when you felt like it/some other metric it could transform the internet.
I have a Kindle Paperwhite 2 and I love the new upgrade. Not noticed changes to that font, but I only use Bookerly. The UI changed with this release; options like airplane mode is easier to get to, and everything looks more modern and less boring, without a single negative change to the important thing; reading books. Goodreads integration so it's easy to track what you're reading, have read and will read. It sucks if people are having problems reading a particular font but you can inject fonts into books if you like.
You probably can't get this upgrade if your kindle is that old. I upgraded from one bought around the same time to the PW2 just for the built in light, but between that, the touch screen and the new fonts it's a totally different device.
I looked at debian and it looks tedious to install and i decided i could if i devoted time and energy to the project i could probably install it but would rather just install ubuntu and get on with it.
Mint is ok and i used it until I got fed up with the lack of support; it's easier to get help when you have ubuntu; also, when you install ubuntu you don't immediately get errors due to poorly configured software before you've even finished logging it. Unity may be shit but at the end of the day I'm not going to be spending a lot of time fucking around with the ui; as long as i can launch apps i'm happy.
You're missing out on a lot of really good phones if that's your main criteria. I've had my z3 for 18 months and it's great. I'm sure i'll get another phone in the next couple of years and this'll probably still be working then. Not sure what I could have got instead that has a replaceable battery. Why is it important? Have you had a lot of problems with batteries in the past?
One thing nobody wants is a microsoft tablet. I know they've put loads of effort into building and flogging them but were they to ever take off it would be despite, not because, of windows. Windows is that awful thing you used to have on your pc before you got a tablet, or that you're forced to use at work.
" As can be seen, I'm not too impressed with how the money is being spent as well since I think better uses of that money could be used."
I? Who are you? They're doing fine, aren't they? Popular site, not in danger of going away soon? I mean, i'm sure if you have any good ideas they'd love to hear from you.
Slashdot Mirror
He wrote populous 30 years ago then did the same game ever since. I couldn't stand the boring game but it was popular at the time. Really, his interviews, especially in the last year or so, have been a lot more fun than the games ever were. After the last one or two I wondered if he should be on suicide watch.
Uh...that's an odd criticism.
Came here to read/make this comment. Apparantly Sony are dropping the mag port. USB sockets are fragile as fuck, and anyone who puts a mag port or some other alternative method of charging that obviates the need to use the usb port a few thousand times over the life of the device (when they only last a few hundred) gets my money.
I paid £35 for it, and I removed the OS in favour of Cyanogenmod. I use it like I'd use a phone or a small tablet, and it works. Email, some games, guitar tuner/metronome, surfing, facebook messenger. Basically everything I'd put on my phone of main tablet if I didn't mind install all sorts of crap and caning the battery. It's also great for PDFs/comics/graphic novels; I have a kindle for reason serious stuff but PDF support is poor on it, as is zooming in and out. It's great on the Fire; no speed problems at all.
I have no idea why you can't read slashdot with it. I know that the mobile site is a piece of shit, and probably always will be ("you have 5 points and they expired 12 days ago", and ajax-style updates with no feedback so you think it's crashed), but it's not better on my nexus 10 or z3. Perhaps you're still using the stock os which doesn't let you install firefox.
No you haven't. (Note that I'm talking about Android.)
This is some work performed on a specific device. You're just....typing.
"but doesn't lot of other devices do that, regardless of origin of company that makes, designs, or markets, them ( esp device that are much hyped and costs lot more than this)?"
Doesn't they? I don't know. Where's the report on that? Perhaps we should add them up. Do some send their data to spain, france, brazil? Who knows?
Just ask them to remove it; they did mine for free.
I switched to firefox recently. It's great; the browser for android (chrome's out of the running as it doesn't support plugins,so you're stick with whatever ads or javascript the sites (and the ads running on the sites) feel like serving up) is the best out there, and the desktop one is great too. I hear people whining about firefox occasionally but i don't get it. Perhaps they're running hardware older than the 5 year old desktop i'm running.
I'm outside the US so they didn't actually charge me anything to turn the ads off.
> So there's no way you need a 10kW for tracking; anything far enough away that you need a 10kW laser to track
> it would be way out of range of your guns.
Tracking it to provide accurate location data to troops, drones, missiles, ships etc nearer it, or which may eventually be nearer to it?
People say this sort of thing about anything India does. The US and Russia didn't succeed at first attempt to put people into orbit, get them on the moon safely etc precisely because they were doing it first. They were doing the R&D, putting up the money and the people. India just - essentially - bought a 3d printer, made a rocket and launched it. It's similar to the reason elvis impersonators aren't all as famous or respected as elvis was. Once you've got the technology it's not important whether you then target the moon, venus etc.
You're telling me that PGP is a serious contender for non-technical people to secure their communications? Seriously?
Hitler used an IBM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Windows has a store? I'll have to fire up my windows vm and take a look. If I can find it; it's been a while. I'm sure I have a windows vm somewhere. You know, for when I really need to use windows for something.
> Serve a script-less ad from your own servers without external tracking, and I won't even bother blocking them.
I'd block them if there were obtrusive, animated, were designed to look like system dialogues, were click-baity etc. We don't need ads that look like they were designed for 80's magazines on websites is 2016.
To be honest, I think it's too late and most people are just going to block them all. The internet was great but frankly I can do without most of it; i'll keep facebook for the chat; email, netflix, online shopping/banking and some news if it's free. If the choice is pay or look at ads I'll do what I did with tv; just say fuck it and move on. Slashdot/hacker news etc can come and go. Something will always turn up in its place, and if it doesn't, it doesn't.
You can't compare some old version of something with some new version of something. People always spoke about micropayments but they either didn't exist, sucked, or no-one used them. If there was a standard way of paying sites tiny amounts of money per page/when you felt like it/some other metric it could transform the internet.
I understand Wired are taking your proposal very seriously as they value your business and are holding high level talks as we speak.
I have a Kindle Paperwhite 2 and I love the new upgrade. Not noticed changes to that font, but I only use Bookerly. The UI changed with this release; options like airplane mode is easier to get to, and everything looks more modern and less boring, without a single negative change to the important thing; reading books. Goodreads integration so it's easy to track what you're reading, have read and will read. It sucks if people are having problems reading a particular font but you can inject fonts into books if you like.
You probably can't get this upgrade if your kindle is that old. I upgraded from one bought around the same time to the PW2 just for the built in light, but between that, the touch screen and the new fonts it's a totally different device.
I looked at debian and it looks tedious to install and i decided i could if i devoted time and energy to the project i could probably install it but would rather just install ubuntu and get on with it.
Mint is ok and i used it until I got fed up with the lack of support; it's easier to get help when you have ubuntu; also, when you install ubuntu you don't immediately get errors due to poorly configured software before you've even finished logging it. Unity may be shit but at the end of the day I'm not going to be spending a lot of time fucking around with the ui; as long as i can launch apps i'm happy.
You're missing out on a lot of really good phones if that's your main criteria. I've had my z3 for 18 months and it's great. I'm sure i'll get another phone in the next couple of years and this'll probably still be working then. Not sure what I could have got instead that has a replaceable battery. Why is it important? Have you had a lot of problems with batteries in the past?
One thing nobody wants is a microsoft tablet. I know they've put loads of effort into building and flogging them but were they to ever take off it would be despite, not because, of windows. Windows is that awful thing you used to have on your pc before you got a tablet, or that you're forced to use at work.
Use Firefox for Android, and block ads, javascript, trackers, auto-delete cookies etc etc. Chrome just isn't functional enough for sensible use.
Exactly. "Consumer will buy product". Great!
LOL! "This OS is much better than the one you're using; at least, it will be when it exists". I don't want to write an OS; I want to use one.
" As can be seen, I'm not too impressed with how the money is being spent as well since I think better uses of that money could be used."
I? Who are you? They're doing fine, aren't they? Popular site, not in danger of going away soon? I mean, i'm sure if you have any good ideas they'd love to hear from you.