We'll send you the cat as soon as Farnell finishes v7 of their price matrix, assuming they've read any of the last 20 mins emails they've been sent about the requirement that they sell to end users.
I think as we approach the future promised by Idiocracy, we're going to see more and more apologists for either dumbing down or the acceptance of bad writing, poor grammar, faulty logic etc.
I wonder whether at some point in your lifetime you'll ever find yourself compelled to correct someone and then think `damn, maybe that other guy from 2012 on Slashdot had a point`?
> Wouldn't you love to have some checkboxes to turn on/off: state borders, topography, jet stream, hi/lo pressure > systems, time display......Zoom out...stop scrolling to the mouse pointer when no buttons zoom in.
Google thinks google.com, gmail, and Android are its customers? What do you mean?
Do you mean advertisers are its customers? Because that's closer to the truth, in terms of where most of its money comes from. That makes more sense, but is still not dishonest, any more than any other organisation which makes money from advertisers is. No-one believes that there's no cost involved in broadcasting radio and tv, or publishing newspapers. I don't think the developers of the free Android apps I use are being dishonest by displaying adverts.
Assuming that you're allowed to enter fairly long passwords, one solution is it simply start every password with aaaaaaaaaa, or aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, or something. Or perhaps the first letter of the site you're on, or the first letter of your username, or something.
Some system you don't tell anyone, obviously, but which will turn your password into something immune from both dictionary attacks and bruteforcing (in any sensible amount of time, anyway).
I carry around 24gig of it, all the time. I picked up a little Sansa Clip+ (8gig with a micro sd slot I stuck a 16gig chip in), which I charge and change around the music of once or twice a week. I suppose when 128/256gig chips become available/affordable I'd get one of those too but for now this is pretty much the perfect solution!
I'm listening to it all the time; on my journeys to and from work, at work, when I'm coding at home. I never, ever listen to the radio, or on tv, or stream music from websites etc. No interest in any of that at all.
Something, yes. Obviously, the cloud - that is, another computer connected to your computer over a network - was invented by Apple. I'm surprised Google has the front to try and rip them off so blatantly. This will not end well.
> I wonder does this have more to do with law in the country in question, or the county of origin? > Considering the stellar privacy stuff lately, I think I would rather figure out how to host my own server > to take my stuff anywhere I like.
I'm guessing it's to do with licensing.
Oh, and some of us have much, much more music than will even begin to fit onto a 32GB `smartphone`.
they ban McDonalds and other shitty food to curb fat fucks. Look around you - anorexia is the least of our problems. From public transport to medical care, it's lettuce dodging, sweaty waddling lazy freaks with no self respect who are (literally) consuming our resources.
> As for Unity, I know Ubuntu dropped KDE, but Gnome 3 is still an option they support > and I think that is promising.
I didn't like Gnome 3 any more than I liked Unity.
> Will Linux Mint keep using the latest Ubuntu and adding KDE in themselves, or is that > going to be too much to ask of them?
Dunno. If they screw up I'll leave them too. Currently, though, they seem to provide a KDE, LXDE and Mate (sort of Gnome 2) versions; they also seem to use both Debian and Ubuntu as base OSes.
I tried using Ubuntu with XFCE but I had problems with backdrops or something - I can't remember the details but I did spend a fair amount of time avoiding leaving Ubuntu as it was the first Linux I ever used successfully.
Even if you actually like Unity, why rush it out when it's not done?
I can't speak for the OP. But I also left Ubuntu because of Unity, which I found to be annoying, inconfigurable and unintuitive. Ubuntu itself is fine. There are a few graphs on Distrowatch suggesting (it's difficult to get accurate figures about Linux distro usage) something of an exodus of Ubuntu users exactly when Unity was imposed upon Ubuntu users, corresponding exactly with the rise of Linux Mint.
Yes, but you've got it backwards. It should autonotplay, and you should have to get a plugin (or change a Slashdot preference) to provide the autoplay functionality. Autoplay is like a phone defaulting to automatically answering an incoming call regardless of whether you actually want to speak to the other party (yet).
I thought you could install anything you wanted onto an Android phone, out of the box, no jailbreaking or anything. Just email youself the package and install, or use usb etc. That's not a wall.
Slashdot Mirror
The touch is released in the UK in a couple of weeks.
We'll send you the cat as soon as Farnell finishes v7 of their price matrix, assuming they've read any of the last 20 mins emails they've been sent about the requirement that they sell to end users.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/fury-as-'retro-80s-arcade'-app-discovered-to-be-just-very-poor-new-games-201111094519/
I hope they've got a decent virus checker.
I think as we approach the future promised by Idiocracy, we're going to see more and more apologists for either dumbing down or the acceptance of bad writing, poor grammar, faulty logic etc.
I wonder whether at some point in your lifetime you'll ever find yourself compelled to correct someone and then think `damn, maybe that other guy from 2012 on Slashdot had a point`?
> isnâ(TM)t the whole SQL injection problem pretty much solved by using prepared statements
> to decouple data from the query?
Yes, if your developers aren't incompetent muppets.
You see the problem, right?
> Wouldn't you love to have some checkboxes to turn on/off: state borders, topography, jet stream, hi/lo pressure ...Zoom out...stop scrolling to the mouse pointer when no buttons zoom in.
> systems, time display...
Why doesn't this work like google maps?
Ming the merciless!
You're not taking any shit today, huh?
"(Paul is pro-defense but against preemptive wars of aggression)."
"but"?
Dammit Amit! You're full of shit! Still, well done on the PHD though. Very impressive!
Google thinks google.com, gmail, and Android are its customers? What do you mean?
Do you mean advertisers are its customers? Because that's closer to the truth, in terms of where most of its money comes from. That makes more sense, but is still not dishonest, any more than any other organisation which makes money from advertisers is. No-one believes that there's no cost involved in broadcasting radio and tv, or publishing newspapers. I don't think the developers of the free Android apps I use are being dishonest by displaying adverts.
Assuming that you're allowed to enter fairly long passwords, one solution is it simply start every password with aaaaaaaaaa, or aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, or something. Or perhaps the first letter of the site you're on, or the first letter of your username, or something.
Some system you don't tell anyone, obviously, but which will turn your password into something immune from both dictionary attacks and bruteforcing (in any sensible amount of time, anyway).
Surely if it takes only 11 comments now then standards are improving?
I carry around 24gig of it, all the time. I picked up a little Sansa Clip+ (8gig with a micro sd slot I stuck a 16gig chip in), which I charge and change around the music of once or twice a week. I suppose when 128/256gig chips become available/affordable I'd get one of those too but for now this is pretty much the perfect solution!
I'm listening to it all the time; on my journeys to and from work, at work, when I'm coding at home. I never, ever listen to the radio, or on tv, or stream music from websites etc. No interest in any of that at all.
Something, yes. Obviously, the cloud - that is, another computer connected to your computer over a network - was invented by Apple. I'm surprised Google has the front to try and rip them off so blatantly. This will not end well.
> I wonder does this have more to do with law in the country in question, or the county of origin?
> Considering the stellar privacy stuff lately, I think I would rather figure out how to host my own server
> to take my stuff anywhere I like.
I'm guessing it's to do with licensing.
Oh, and some of us have much, much more music than will even begin to fit onto a 32GB `smartphone`.
They started that last month.
they ban McDonalds and other shitty food to curb fat fucks. Look around you - anorexia is the least of our problems. From public transport to medical care, it's lettuce dodging, sweaty waddling lazy freaks with no self respect who are (literally) consuming our resources.
> As for Unity, I know Ubuntu dropped KDE, but Gnome 3 is still an option they support
> and I think that is promising.
I didn't like Gnome 3 any more than I liked Unity.
> Will Linux Mint keep using the latest Ubuntu and adding KDE in themselves, or is that
> going to be too much to ask of them?
Dunno. If they screw up I'll leave them too. Currently, though, they seem to provide a KDE, LXDE and Mate (sort of Gnome 2) versions; they also seem to use both Debian and Ubuntu as base OSes.
I tried using Ubuntu with XFCE but I had problems with backdrops or something - I can't remember the details but I did spend a fair amount of time avoiding leaving Ubuntu as it was the first Linux I ever used successfully.
Even if you actually like Unity, why rush it out when it's not done?
I can't speak for the OP. But I also left Ubuntu because of Unity, which I found to be annoying, inconfigurable and unintuitive. Ubuntu itself is fine. There are a few graphs on Distrowatch suggesting (it's difficult to get accurate figures about Linux distro usage) something of an exodus of Ubuntu users exactly when Unity was imposed upon Ubuntu users, corresponding exactly with the rise of Linux Mint.
Who does he think he is - providing feedback and advice about Linux?
Yes, but you've got it backwards. It should autonotplay, and you should have to get a plugin (or change a Slashdot preference) to provide the autoplay functionality. Autoplay is like a phone defaulting to automatically answering an incoming call regardless of whether you actually want to speak to the other party (yet).
> It does appear to matter to Apple that Siri doesn't function that well in the U.K., because
> of a lack of good localisation."
Or even
"does *not* appear to matter"
surely?
I thought you could install anything you wanted onto an Android phone, out of the box, no jailbreaking or anything. Just email youself the package and install, or use usb etc. That's not a wall.