No, it's a heavy, non-portable tablet with poor battery life and a requirement for virus checkers, rebooting after installation, frequent security updates, and a bizarre, unintuitive OS.
> I have to admit not ever reading xkcd, having more important things on my Kindle.
It publishes 3 strips a week, plus a what-if from time to time. It's not a book, or anything else which would compete with whatever's on your kindle for your attention, unless you're a very, very slow reader.
Heh - I came to post that if they get started at primary school there'll be some chance they'll know how to use Windows 8 by the time they're 18! "No, to shut down the PC you hit the windows key, move the mouse to the right hand edge of the screen then wave it around a little, then click that icon..no that one..not that one..yeah, then click there.."
"Even Samsung"? They're useless - months along and they're no closer to even acknowledging that there's cut and paste issue (hanging apps, randomly rebooting device) with their flagship Android phone, the Galaxy S3!
> I think there's merit to their "Windows anywhere" goal, though it still needs some > polishing.
"Something called Windows, everywhere", you mean? Windows 7 on this phone, Windows 8 on that phone, Windows 8 on that laptop, Windows RT over there on that thing...
Has anyone explained why you have to pay for JSTOR? To deal with cataloguing the files, right? Aren't computers good at searching text? Would it cost much for universities to store the files themselves and allow text searching of the files? The files could be shared between universities so that they don't need to all store all of the files. It would make a vaguely interesting project, if it's not already available for free, to have the files shared via torrents and have some indexes of the files available. How does it make any sense in terms of encouraging people to read papers which are basically free of charge (in the sense that they're paid for ultimately by tax payers money) to have this system when you have to pay someone because they somehow control the files? Why can't they be stored in places other than just JSTOR?
What are you talking about? It's a website. Obviously they can't shelter you from the rule of the law - that's ridiculous and no-one's suggesting it. It's only slightly more ridiculous than suggesting that Slashdot can create laws just by virtue of being a website. They're both stupid. I'm guessing this is an american thing, right? "Land of the free...if you can afford the lawyer to keep you out of prison".
I wonder how many sites say you have to be honest, because I lie all the time on the internet; not sure I've ever given my real date of birth, address, mother's maiden name etc etc. Why would I? It's a security risk. The worst thing that should happen is that the owner of the site blocks you. I can live with that. No site is worth any amount of trouble, as there are a billion other sites you can use instead.
Does InSync support Google authentication tokens? It's surprising how many Android apps seriously expect me to trust them with my Google account credentials because they can't be bothered to use tokens.
> You could also use something like a mountable version of Google Drive
How do you mount Google Drive on Linux? It seems simple to the designers of Dropbox but it's eluded those at Google. Basically makes it unusable. It's doubly frustrating that you can't download files onto Android devices using the Google Drive app, even though the app already lets you play, for example, mp3s you've pushed up there from Android, so they're actually preventing you from using functionality the app already possesses. It's like they want you to use third party software or something...
Also, whenever London is mentioned I feel they should put "London, England" in case people confuse it with other Londons, such as London, Ohio (it's 2 miles south of Cowpoke).
Deleting the last copy of a file is much harder than destroying the last copy of a book. Distributed backups (such as what Amazon, Google etc have for their cloud services) are not vulnerable to a single emp. Attempting to ban/destroy books has always been a symbolic act performed by dictators or faith-heads; all but the dimmest of them would have known that it's impossible to get every last copy, and with todays technology (ie you could stick millions of books on a few little-finernail sizes 64gig micro-usb cards) they're not going anyway, law or no law, emp or no emp.
Er..no, it's the same thing. It was written once, and typeset, edited etc. The it was a) printed in book form, and b) rendered into a pdf (or whatever). Exactly the same content. And my kindle can be read in exactly the same places a book can be, sunlight or otherwise. And when I read the same thing on my Android phone, I don't need any form of light as it's backlit. And if it were convenient/practical to print a pdf, or scan a book into a pdf I'd do that and not give a fuck about the law of it (I'm in the UK, where ripping CDs to MP3s is illegal, and I've done that for every single CD I've ever bought, and I don't give a fuck about the law there either).
Slashdot Mirror
So get rid of his and use he's instead - works for me.
No, it's a heavy, non-portable tablet with poor battery life and a requirement for virus checkers, rebooting after installation, frequent security updates, and a bizarre, unintuitive OS.
> And we keep falling for it ... *sigh*
Well, stop it. We don't keep falling for it. You lot need to be more cynical!
> I have to admit not ever reading xkcd, having more important things on my Kindle.
It publishes 3 strips a week, plus a what-if from time to time. It's not a book, or anything else which would compete with whatever's on your kindle for your attention, unless you're a very, very slow reader.
Heh - I came to post that if they get started at primary school there'll be some chance they'll know how to use Windows 8 by the time they're 18! "No, to shut down the PC you hit the windows key, move the mouse to the right hand edge of the screen then wave it around a little, then click that icon..no that one..not that one..yeah, then click there.."
"Even Samsung"? They're useless - months along and they're no closer to even acknowledging that there's cut and paste issue (hanging apps, randomly rebooting device) with their flagship Android phone, the Galaxy S3!
> It is amazing what software companies can escape with, things that in
> other engineering fields would totally blast them companies with lawsuits.
http://apcmag.com/seagate_settles_class_action_cash_back_over_misleading_hard_drive_capacities.htm
> Can you imagine a civil engineer gradually patching structural
> inconsistencies in a bridge as they show up? Yikes!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1829053.stm
You could just as Asus to build them. I don't know anyone who received a functioning model until they'd sent it back at least twice.
>There are a lot of average speed cameras on the A77 in Ayrshire,
To be fair, there are also a lot of really good ones...
Well, they're also protecting you (potentially) from the actions of idiots.
> need for shit that wasn't broken to remain not broken going forward
Does it work when you go backwards?
> I think there's merit to their "Windows anywhere" goal, though it still needs some
> polishing.
"Something called Windows, everywhere", you mean? Windows 7 on this phone, Windows 8 on that phone, Windows 8 on that laptop, Windows RT over there on that thing...
Has anyone explained why you have to pay for JSTOR? To deal with cataloguing the files, right? Aren't computers good at searching text? Would it cost much for universities to store the files themselves and allow text searching of the files? The files could be shared between universities so that they don't need to all store all of the files. It would make a vaguely interesting project, if it's not already available for free, to have the files shared via torrents and have some indexes of the files available. How does it make any sense in terms of encouraging people to read papers which are basically free of charge (in the sense that they're paid for ultimately by tax payers money) to have this system when you have to pay someone because they somehow control the files? Why can't they be stored in places other than just JSTOR?
Oops! That second line should of course have been:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
(That'll teach me to post to Slashdot when I'm sorting out my Mingus!)
The old `Chinese Room` again.
The Complete 1 Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961
It's Penrose vs Hofstadter! (Seriously, haven't we done this before?)
Horse DNA, not meat. Probably just horse semen. Nothing to worry about.
What are you talking about? It's a website. Obviously they can't shelter you from the rule of the law - that's ridiculous and no-one's suggesting it. It's only slightly more ridiculous than suggesting that Slashdot can create laws just by virtue of being a website. They're both stupid. I'm guessing this is an american thing, right? "Land of the free...if you can afford the lawyer to keep you out of prison".
I wonder how many sites say you have to be honest, because I lie all the time on the internet; not sure I've ever given my real date of birth, address, mother's maiden name etc etc. Why would I? It's a security risk. The worst thing that should happen is that the owner of the site blocks you. I can live with that. No site is worth any amount of trouble, as there are a billion other sites you can use instead.
And whether you prefer Visual Studio's IDE, or Eclipse.
No, it's shit. Produces pages you can't scroll on the S3, using chrome,a quad core phone.
Does InSync support Google authentication tokens? It's surprising how many Android apps seriously expect me to trust them with my Google account credentials because they can't be bothered to use tokens.
> You could also use something like a mountable version of Google Drive
How do you mount Google Drive on Linux? It seems simple to the designers of Dropbox but it's eluded those at Google. Basically makes it unusable. It's doubly frustrating that you can't download files onto Android devices using the Google Drive app, even though the app already lets you play, for example, mp3s you've pushed up there from Android, so they're actually preventing you from using functionality the app already possesses. It's like they want you to use third party software or something...
I thought those were called `women`?
I'll get my coat...
Also, whenever London is mentioned I feel they should put "London, England" in case people confuse it with other Londons, such as London, Ohio (it's 2 miles south of Cowpoke).
Deleting the last copy of a file is much harder than destroying the last copy of a book. Distributed backups (such as what Amazon, Google etc have for their cloud services) are not vulnerable to a single emp. Attempting to ban/destroy books has always been a symbolic act performed by dictators or faith-heads; all but the dimmest of them would have known that it's impossible to get every last copy, and with todays technology (ie you could stick millions of books on a few little-finernail sizes 64gig micro-usb cards) they're not going anyway, law or no law, emp or no emp.
Er..no, it's the same thing. It was written once, and typeset, edited etc. The it was a) printed in book form, and b) rendered into a pdf (or whatever). Exactly the same content. And my kindle can be read in exactly the same places a book can be, sunlight or otherwise. And when I read the same thing on my Android phone, I don't need any form of light as it's backlit. And if it were convenient/practical to print a pdf, or scan a book into a pdf I'd do that and not give a fuck about the law of it (I'm in the UK, where ripping CDs to MP3s is illegal, and I've done that for every single CD I've ever bought, and I don't give a fuck about the law there either).