Pixels are overpriced, given what you get. (Yeah yeah, the only price is what people are prepared to pay for it!) It's just a variant of a HTC phone. You can get a perfectly good last-seasons-flagship like the xperia z3 or whatever for a quarter the price of the Pixel and you get waterproofing, an sd card etc. Did google provide a software fix for the hardware lens "halo" problem yet? lol! I was so looking forward to the next Nexus then the £820 pixel came out and I thought I was watching an Apple product launch. It's a good thing there's no progress in phone hardware these days otherwise I'd feel tempted to get one. Even software - Nougat - doesn't offer anything compelling over marshmallow. Perhaps I'll hang on for this autumn's releases, or next autumn's.
I tried OpenElec, or LibreElec, or something, on my Pi3. It was ok but the sd card is then read only so it's impossible to use it to do anything else at the same time. You're better off just installing Raspbian and kodi. I imagine the theory is "it just does one thing properly" but i've noticed no problems.
"players are asking what her role in the story and what her motivation even was."
This ruined Pacman for me. I've been playing games for 35 years and I just don't get how games like Pacman and Donkey Kong, Tetris, Tekken etc got so popular. They have superficial unrealistic back stories and it's hard to take seriously the premise for the game. Don't developers know how important these aspects of game design are?
You're suggesting there's a need for a solution, the solution would benefit people and make money, and that the solution is technically simple, and yet does not exist. Perhaps you need to examine one of your axioms...or get coding!
YouTube? This is about tv programs. There's absolutely nothing (legally) on YouTube that's as well executed as the poorest TV shows. Or am I somehow missing a YouTube version of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Quarry, Luke Cage.... ?
There's loads of good stuff. You probably have no imagination or just like complaining. Unless you have 5+ hours per day free to sit around and do nothing which you're trying desperately to fill there'll always be something good to watch.
I tried mint because i didn't like unity on ubuntu but i got error messages - with spelling mistakes - on a clean install (think the errors were to do with not having a mailbox set up or something, but..you know..clean install? easy to test, you'd think, right?). Also, try getting mint-specific help. there are vanishingly few sites there. Why not just use ubuntu if you're going to use a ubuntu-based os? Oh, yeah, screen savers and different window managers. Right.
Not really IT news, and kind of obvious. I mean, i guess it involves IT equipment, but so does shopping. Is Slashdot eventually going to become a repository for every single story going?
This is pretty similar to manufacturers/networks not developing/releasing updates for Android phones which other devices (typically nexus/pixel devices) have, making them less secure.
nobody wants to spend £1000+ on a device which makes shitty low quality christmas cracker toys. It was obvious from the start that this was this seasons desktop publishing fad. The sort of people who it was argued would use these are already aware of better alternatives.
That's generally a good idea but it's wise to consider whether sometimes a better solution is arrived at via integration of multiple pieces of functionality. One of the things I've really enjoyed lately is neovim. It's essentially vim, but amongst the improvements is a built in terminal. Why not use vim (or neovim) and tmux? Because having the terminal built in is just better, that's why. No need to install and configure the apps separately, and when you're using neovim on multiple platforms, that saves me time.
It has to be said that most major distros are using systemd. If you want to use this one, better hope it's supported for the lifetime of whatever project you're using it for.
Your two sentences are at odds. He was an intelligent and popular author - in a time where intelligence wasn't just used to sell things - and he produced a warning about how technology and politics could be used to enslave mankind which we've chosen to ignore. I'm not sure you even know what identity politics is.
I'm just saying that in the UK you practically never get any sort of reference except one which states your state and end date, position, and sometimes the number of sick days. That's it; it's totally normal and because of this no-one reads anything into it; you'd look naive even asking the company if this were normal.
No such thing as a bad reference, at least in the UK. You'd just sue them for lying, resulting in an expensive court case which would highlight publicly other failings in the company.
Why are you even thinking about the person replacing you? Anyone replacing me will find comment free code with no history in version control. If they're lucky.
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Pixels are overpriced, given what you get. (Yeah yeah, the only price is what people are prepared to pay for it!) It's just a variant of a HTC phone. You can get a perfectly good last-seasons-flagship like the xperia z3 or whatever for a quarter the price of the Pixel and you get waterproofing, an sd card etc. Did google provide a software fix for the hardware lens "halo" problem yet? lol! I was so looking forward to the next Nexus then the £820 pixel came out and I thought I was watching an Apple product launch. It's a good thing there's no progress in phone hardware these days otherwise I'd feel tempted to get one. Even software - Nougat - doesn't offer anything compelling over marshmallow. Perhaps I'll hang on for this autumn's releases, or next autumn's.
What's the difference between wikileaks and anonymous? Is there any? Serious question.
And why? It'll just be ads and auto-start-playing videos, and who wants them?
You're agreeing with me. Look at the terms you agreed to when you signed up with facebook.
Most home users have dynamic ip addresses, so it'll just show whatever the person who had your ip address earlier was downloading.
I tried OpenElec, or LibreElec, or something, on my Pi3. It was ok but the sd card is then read only so it's impossible to use it to do anything else at the same time. You're better off just installing Raspbian and kodi. I imagine the theory is "it just does one thing properly" but i've noticed no problems.
> especially as what they do is criminal here...I did not ever permit them to do anything
If you use their services in any way then you are permitting them.
"players are asking what her role in the story and what her motivation even was."
This ruined Pacman for me. I've been playing games for 35 years and I just don't get how games like Pacman and Donkey Kong, Tetris, Tekken etc got so popular. They have superficial unrealistic back stories and it's hard to take seriously the premise for the game. Don't developers know how important these aspects of game design are?
You're suggesting there's a need for a solution, the solution would benefit people and make money, and that the solution is technically simple, and yet does not exist. Perhaps you need to examine one of your axioms...or get coding!
Once you're addicted to caffeine, yes - you "need" it to feel as alert as you did before your became addicted.
I think you're parsing my post wrong; those were examples of good shows.
YouTube? This is about tv programs. There's absolutely nothing (legally) on YouTube that's as well executed as the poorest TV shows. Or am I somehow missing a YouTube version of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Quarry, Luke Cage.... ?
There's loads of good stuff. You probably have no imagination or just like complaining. Unless you have 5+ hours per day free to sit around and do nothing which you're trying desperately to fill there'll always be something good to watch.
Google would presumably reveal that they are doing so for a given country, though.
> Almost everything *just works*.
I tried mint because i didn't like unity on ubuntu but i got error messages - with spelling mistakes - on a clean install (think the errors were to do with not having a mailbox set up or something, but ..you know..clean install? easy to test, you'd think, right?). Also, try getting mint-specific help. there are vanishingly few sites there. Why not just use ubuntu if you're going to use a ubuntu-based os? Oh, yeah, screen savers and different window managers. Right.
Not really IT news, and kind of obvious. I mean, i guess it involves IT equipment, but so does shopping. Is Slashdot eventually going to become a repository for every single story going?
This is pretty similar to manufacturers/networks not developing/releasing updates for Android phones which other devices (typically nexus/pixel devices) have, making them less secure.
nobody wants to spend £1000+ on a device which makes shitty low quality christmas cracker toys. It was obvious from the start that this was this seasons desktop publishing fad. The sort of people who it was argued would use these are already aware of better alternatives.
> In the spirit of "Do one thing and do it well",
That's generally a good idea but it's wise to consider whether sometimes a better solution is arrived at via integration of multiple pieces of functionality. One of the things I've really enjoyed lately is neovim. It's essentially vim, but amongst the improvements is a built in terminal. Why not use vim (or neovim) and tmux? Because having the terminal built in is just better, that's why. No need to install and configure the apps separately, and when you're using neovim on multiple platforms, that saves me time.
It has to be said that most major distros are using systemd. If you want to use this one, better hope it's supported for the lifetime of whatever project you're using it for.
Your two sentences are at odds. He was an intelligent and popular author - in a time where intelligence wasn't just used to sell things - and he produced a warning about how technology and politics could be used to enslave mankind which we've chosen to ignore. I'm not sure you even know what identity politics is.
They're not using their own drones. Perhaps NIH is not as deeply entrenched there as you like to think?
I'm just saying that in the UK you practically never get any sort of reference except one which states your state and end date, position, and sometimes the number of sick days. That's it; it's totally normal and because of this no-one reads anything into it; you'd look naive even asking the company if this were normal.
No such thing as a bad reference, at least in the UK. You'd just sue them for lying, resulting in an expensive court case which would highlight publicly other failings in the company.
Why are you even thinking about the person replacing you? Anyone replacing me will find comment free code with no history in version control. If they're lucky.
Or just don't bother with the domain name. Use the IP address.