If it is an admission by a police officer, then don't write to SOCA, write to the IPCC, who have the power to investigate claims of misconduct by members of SOCA.
15 minutes? There's a freakin' movie on first install that shows you how to switch back if you can't be bothered to look in system prefs/mouse and change it back.
I didn't spend 15 minutes looking, I spent 15 minutes trying their new UI model before deciding that, no, it wasn't something to get used to, it was just a failed attempt to apply an interaction mode that made sense on one input device to another.
I thought the disappearing scroll bars were a UI mistake as well, but with all the gesture devices (trackpad and mouse, namely) it takes just a slight twitch to make them reappear
Assuming that your fingers are already on the trackpad, and not on the keyboard...
More importantly: apps that come from the App Store are now required to run in a sandbox. Apps that do not can do anything. It makes sense to warn when you run a new app outside of a sandbox. It would be even better if it would say 'Do you want to run this app in a sandbox?' and default to 'yes'.
After 15 minutes, I found the setting to change it back to scrolling the correct way, which makes sense when you're using a trackpad rather than a touchscreen. It still automatically hides the scroll widgets, but since they made them very ugly in 10.7 that's probably for the best, even if it does lose you the immediate feedback of knowing how big the current document is and where you are in it.
Possibly. Companies like Samsung and HTC don't care about Android being open source, they care;
That it's cheap.
That they can customise it to differentiate their products.
That the bits that they don't customise are supported so they don't have to invest developer effort in them.
Microsoft's offering is quite cheap (when you consider that Android manufacturers are already paying MS $15/handset for a nebulous patent license) and is definitely supported upstream. The customisability seems to have gone down recently, as Microsoft is pushing to have a consistent UI across different handset, making it harder to differentiate Windows phones on anything other than price and hardware (which is good for Microsoft, not so good for handset makers). With Android, the first two of these are a result of it being open, so if it were closed then this would be a problem for handset makers, while Windows Phone wouldn't, necessarily.
I was given an HP TouchPad to hack on, and I'd say that tablets are a niche, but a potentially useful one. They are good for situations where you primarily want to consume information, and for simple controls. It's fine for web browsing, although not on slashdot where you'd want to type long replies. If you need to quickly look up data while away from a desk, it's useful. For example, I could imagine a doctor using it to see patients notes as he walked around a hospital. The on-screen keyboard is fine for very short jotted notes. Nurses can see the same data and in many cases just click check boxes to indicate that treatments have been administered as indicated. The same thing could be used to automatically control drip systems, so drugs administered by drip could be automatically controlled simply by the doctor entering the dosage. Similarly, a salesdroid might make use of a tablet for caring around a lot of product information in a form that can be presented to the client and for flagging various products that the client is interested in. This information would then be transferred to another system for producing a detailed quote.
Profiling is always bad because it introduces a weakness into the system. As soon as bad people know that a certain subset of the population has less scrutiny than another then they can target their recruiting towards that subset.
It wasn't quite that bad. He said you were either with the child pornographers or with the government. Given those two options, I'm not really sure which one is less bad. With the law-abiding citizens doesn't seem to be an option. Given that these days child pornographers includes teenagers who send naked photos to each other, parents who photograph their children in the bath, and people who distribute illustrations of nude fictional children, I think on balance I'd rather be with them than with the power-crazed sociopaths.
Is this a new feature? The Mac version of OO.o has had auto-update for ages, and it's always been a second-tier port. I assumed they disabled it on most platforms because they have a standard way of pushing updates (even Windows in a corporate setting).
It's a question of speed and simplicity. How do you index worksheets? If people usually create small numbers of them (say, 1-10), then an array of 100 pointers to worksheets is fine. The tab just needs to store an index, and you can find the one before and after trivially by just walking the array. If you keep this approach, you can have a thousand, or possibly ten thousand, without a particularly noticeable memory increase in memory usage (especially for something as big as an office suite), but if you really want flexibility then you need to do something like a tree or a skip list that can be dynamically resized. For small numbers, this just complicates the code and adds overhead for no benefit.
The idea that you allude to is called the Broken Windows Theory (not to be confused with The Broken Window Fallacy, which is unrelated). Unfortunately, it appears to have about the same amount of supporting evidence as it has contradictory evidence.
There are a lot of public domain performances. Duke University, for example, places a lot of performances of classical pieces by their orchestras into the public domain, as do several state orchestras around the world.
This is not a "Facebook" problem. This is an "Internet" problem.
Well, kind of. Most of the time, the problem is not that the data exists, but that it's aggregated. This has parallels with usenet over a decade ago. Lots of people said stupid things online, but most news servers only stored the last 30 days of messages (if that), so it wasn't a big deal. A few people kept more complete archives, but they usually weren't online and they weren't searchable, or if they were then they were of individual newsgroups. Then Deja News came along, and suddenly every stupid thing you'd said was publicly archived and searchable.
If you put something on your own web site and then decide to take it down, then it may still be cached, but it's no longer easy to find and caches generally expire over time, so eventually it's gone. If you put something on Facebook, then you've agreed in their T&Cs that they can keep it forever, can sell it to third parties, and so on.
You know it's possible to have multiple accounts, right? And to use a subscriber account for seeing things in advance then use your normal account for browsing so you don't use up your subscriber credits?
Except that your example is actually really bad. The read() function in POSIX returns the number of bytes read on success, or -1 on failure and then sets errno to the value of the error.
After careful investigation, I came to the conclusion that all of the new mobile phones on the market are crap and expensive. So I bought a two-year-old model. It's also crap, but at least it wasn't expensive...
None, but you'll get lots of replies telling you that it's a media conspiracy responsible for keeping Ron Paul down, and that his poor performance in the polls has nothing to do with his complete lack of understanding of basic economics.
Add to that, unless Obama seriously screws up the second term, the economy is likely to be in a much better state for the next election. Whoever wins this time will probably be blamed for all of the unpleasant things that are required to fix the economy. Whoever wins the next one will take credit for the recovery. It's easy to understand why attention whores (i.e. career politicians) would rather be the second than the first...
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If it is an admission by a police officer, then don't write to SOCA, write to the IPCC, who have the power to investigate claims of misconduct by members of SOCA.
15 minutes? There's a freakin' movie on first install that shows you how to switch back if you can't be bothered to look in system prefs/mouse and change it back.
I didn't spend 15 minutes looking, I spent 15 minutes trying their new UI model before deciding that, no, it wasn't something to get used to, it was just a failed attempt to apply an interaction mode that made sense on one input device to another.
I thought the disappearing scroll bars were a UI mistake as well, but with all the gesture devices (trackpad and mouse, namely) it takes just a slight twitch to make them reappear
Assuming that your fingers are already on the trackpad, and not on the keyboard...
I bought an HTC phone, installed Cyanogen, and then reverted to the HTC firmware because the UI doesn't suck as much as the official Android one.
How is this any closer to Apple locking down your ability to download and install any application (not App)
Why not App? They come in bundles with a .app extension, and have since NeXTSTEP 1.0 in 1988...
More importantly: apps that come from the App Store are now required to run in a sandbox. Apps that do not can do anything. It makes sense to warn when you run a new app outside of a sandbox. It would be even better if it would say 'Do you want to run this app in a sandbox?' and default to 'yes'.
After 15 minutes, I found the setting to change it back to scrolling the correct way, which makes sense when you're using a trackpad rather than a touchscreen. It still automatically hides the scroll widgets, but since they made them very ugly in 10.7 that's probably for the best, even if it does lose you the immediate feedback of knowing how big the current document is and where you are in it.
The Bible is full of rational thought, although now that the author is dead it probably won't be getting a third edition...
I was given an HP TouchPad to hack on, and I'd say that tablets are a niche, but a potentially useful one. They are good for situations where you primarily want to consume information, and for simple controls. It's fine for web browsing, although not on slashdot where you'd want to type long replies. If you need to quickly look up data while away from a desk, it's useful. For example, I could imagine a doctor using it to see patients notes as he walked around a hospital. The on-screen keyboard is fine for very short jotted notes. Nurses can see the same data and in many cases just click check boxes to indicate that treatments have been administered as indicated. The same thing could be used to automatically control drip systems, so drugs administered by drip could be automatically controlled simply by the doctor entering the dosage. Similarly, a salesdroid might make use of a tablet for caring around a lot of product information in a form that can be presented to the client and for flagging various products that the client is interested in. This information would then be transferred to another system for producing a detailed quote.
I believe that using American as a synonym for illiterate is not considered politically correct these days...
Somehow "Fire the bastards and shut down the TSA" doesn't seem to occur to people in congress. (D- or R- types)
Well, it did occur to Ron Paul. On the other hand, that's probably just a side effect of his general policy of Shut Down Everything.
Profiling is always bad because it introduces a weakness into the system. As soon as bad people know that a certain subset of the population has less scrutiny than another then they can target their recruiting towards that subset.
Taking a train to Canada or Mexico and then flying to Europe is, at least, possible, if not especially quick or cheap.
A third of the way down the page, and the first person to give the correct solution. And it's currently scored at 0...
It wasn't quite that bad. He said you were either with the child pornographers or with the government. Given those two options, I'm not really sure which one is less bad. With the law-abiding citizens doesn't seem to be an option. Given that these days child pornographers includes teenagers who send naked photos to each other, parents who photograph their children in the bath, and people who distribute illustrations of nude fictional children, I think on balance I'd rather be with them than with the power-crazed sociopaths.
Is this a new feature? The Mac version of OO.o has had auto-update for ages, and it's always been a second-tier port. I assumed they disabled it on most platforms because they have a standard way of pushing updates (even Windows in a corporate setting).
It's a question of speed and simplicity. How do you index worksheets? If people usually create small numbers of them (say, 1-10), then an array of 100 pointers to worksheets is fine. The tab just needs to store an index, and you can find the one before and after trivially by just walking the array. If you keep this approach, you can have a thousand, or possibly ten thousand, without a particularly noticeable memory increase in memory usage (especially for something as big as an office suite), but if you really want flexibility then you need to do something like a tree or a skip list that can be dynamically resized. For small numbers, this just complicates the code and adds overhead for no benefit.
The idea that you allude to is called the Broken Windows Theory (not to be confused with The Broken Window Fallacy, which is unrelated). Unfortunately, it appears to have about the same amount of supporting evidence as it has contradictory evidence.
There are a lot of public domain performances. Duke University, for example, places a lot of performances of classical pieces by their orchestras into the public domain, as do several state orchestras around the world.
This is not a "Facebook" problem. This is an "Internet" problem.
Well, kind of. Most of the time, the problem is not that the data exists, but that it's aggregated. This has parallels with usenet over a decade ago. Lots of people said stupid things online, but most news servers only stored the last 30 days of messages (if that), so it wasn't a big deal. A few people kept more complete archives, but they usually weren't online and they weren't searchable, or if they were then they were of individual newsgroups. Then Deja News came along, and suddenly every stupid thing you'd said was publicly archived and searchable.
If you put something on your own web site and then decide to take it down, then it may still be cached, but it's no longer easy to find and caches generally expire over time, so eventually it's gone. If you put something on Facebook, then you've agreed in their T&Cs that they can keep it forever, can sell it to third parties, and so on.
You know it's possible to have multiple accounts, right? And to use a subscriber account for seeing things in advance then use your normal account for browsing so you don't use up your subscriber credits?
Except that your example is actually really bad. The read() function in POSIX returns the number of bytes read on success, or -1 on failure and then sets errno to the value of the error.
After careful investigation, I came to the conclusion that all of the new mobile phones on the market are crap and expensive. So I bought a two-year-old model. It's also crap, but at least it wasn't expensive...
None, but you'll get lots of replies telling you that it's a media conspiracy responsible for keeping Ron Paul down, and that his poor performance in the polls has nothing to do with his complete lack of understanding of basic economics.
Add to that, unless Obama seriously screws up the second term, the economy is likely to be in a much better state for the next election. Whoever wins this time will probably be blamed for all of the unpleasant things that are required to fix the economy. Whoever wins the next one will take credit for the recovery. It's easy to understand why attention whores (i.e. career politicians) would rather be the second than the first...