Why not? There's a statement with no foundation in fact. The Samsung Galaxy is already being pushed in the major smartphone outlets here. I'd have one but I'm waiting to see what the HTC offering looks like.
There should be mod points for grammar. -ve for errors and +ve for pointing them out. Those who object to being corrected are just happy being ignorant. Non-native English speakers would win by being aware of correct usage.
There is no such thing as an invulnerable company. It doesn't matter how big they are or how many products they ship. History is full of fallen Goliaths.
Nokia's respect for the privacy of its (not it's) customers doesn't extend to allowing you to unsubscribe from their annoying mailing lists. I made the mistake of registering when I had an N95. That went a long time ago but efforts to opt out of mailshots are completely ignored. I don't just get emails but SMSs too. I deleted my Ovi account but they continue to pester me.
While companies are growing, waxing profitable and don't feel threatened, it is easy for them to be honest and straight forward. It's when they see market share suffering or competition gaining the upper-hand that they tend to resort to deceptions and shady practices.
Big media feels threatened by YouTube and the wider copyright violation/pirating issues but are too fat, comfortable and lazy to innovate around it. They'd much rather litigate because it's easy and avoids all that messy thinking.
The problem is that while there is now a perception of depth, the viewer isn't able to focus on what takes their attention. If the camera is focused on the foreground and you want to look at something in the background, it will be blurry. Your eye attempts to correct this but it doesn't work. This is confusing to the optical system and it's why a some people come out of 3D viewings with a headache. It's not at all obvious how this can be corrected without a personalised viewing experience that detects the viewers point of interest and brings it into focus.
I've never been able to buy anything from Amazon with just one click. Have you counted them?
WARNING: More than 1 click may be required unless you are already logged on and a bunch of other requirements are in order - which they probably aren't. Please allow 30 minutes to purchase.
And, while I'm at it, can we stop trying to make things smaller by multiplying them by large numbers? "1000 times less intense" is a nonsense. "A one thousandth as intense" or "a thousandth of the intensity" is what they mean. If you can't handle fractions, then "it would need to be a thousand times brighter to be visible to the naked eye".
I have a bunch of high quality images that I've taken and am happy to donate. However, when I tried to upload them I was prevented due to not having updated a sufficient number of articles. Until you've updated the text on something like 10 articles you can't upload any images. I simply haven't found that many articles I felt I could make a useful contribution to yet.
It seems like an odd restriction to me. Unless you can prove you can write readable text, you can't upload pictures.
DRM helps no one achieve anything. Best selling author and former Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cory Doctorow http://craphound.com/ is an interesting guy and practices what he preaches. He lets you download his books from his website for free. Of course, if you want a nicely bound paper version, you can buy a copy. Of you can go to see the stage show of the book or the film of the book. I don't think he's starving.
It may be extreme and excessive in some departments but not all as the author would like you to believe. That sort of acceleration has been commonplace on sports motorbikes for years and my eyeballs haven't deformed yet.
Find a partner. Programming in a team is a whole lot more motivating and productive than solo. You're forced to work to produce code if the other guy needs to integrate with it. You'll also get someone to bounce ideas off this can inspire and motivate. Set milestones and reward yourselves when you reach them.
Go out and do stuff, like join clubs or get involved in local events. Some ideas:
1. Join a local amateur dramatics society. You don't have to act/sing/dance. You can work backstage on lights and sound (geeky stuff) or build sets. There are always more females than males at these things. The social side is huge.
2. Join a club to learn or enjoy one of your less geeky interests, like maybe dancing, playing music, photography, walking, etc.
3. Work in a bar at weekends. Girls you don't know will come up to you and talk to you - and order drinks.
4. Join a gym (you probably need to anyway) and look out for social activities.
5. Read the local papers for activities and events in the area.
Also: wash, shave, brush your teeth, cut your hair, wear clean clothes. Remove other useless blemishes such as iPhones.
Before you can outlaw it, you need to define it. This must surely require a list of banned words - but how will they publish it? Any attempt would produce a document in violation of itself.
Then there are expressions that contain no profane words but which might, as a whole, be regarded as profane.
Then, of course, people are inventive. If they can't use one word, a substitute will soon appear.
How do these morons get elected?
I can see dens of profanity opening up in dingy rooms where people gather to drink legal liquor and shout illegal vulgarities.
I'm very serious. I have parents in Canada. A PC each, Dad on Windows XP, Mum on OpenSuse Linux. Dad is always calling with problems with virus warnings, scare-ware pop-ups and hangs. A recent virus scan found over 400 suspect infections of which around 20 could be regarded as extremely undesirable. And this is with a regularly updated AVG.
The worst problem from Mum is she can't figure out how to put a picture in her newsletter or she's accidentally hidden an email folder.
Remote admin to the Linux machine is a whole lot easier and quicker with SSH than Remote Desktop.
My mother-in-law, who is only a few miles away also uses OpenSuse. I update her system ever year or so and she never has any problems.
I don't give them the root password.
It's way to easy on Windows to fool the unwary into doing something stupid.
Microsoft has reacted to this security exposure by launching a new version that puts the OS out of reach and is guaranteed attack-proof: Vista for Vacuums.
Over time, as man has evolved, he has reduced his need of gods from many (Sun God, God of Love, etc.) down to one - though, not necessarily the same one. The more fully evolved on the planet have made the final step and eliminated that one, too.
God is a product of man, not the other way around.
If you're working in a studio, having a laptop on a trolley on the end of a USB cable following you around is a common set-up these days. Seeing a picture on a decent laptop screen can show problems a digital camera screen hides - particularly what's in focus and what's not. But even with a long USB cable, tethered working is restrictive.
If this gives the advantages of tethered shooting without the cable, I'd buy one in an instant.
From their page: "JackLab would like to stimulate an entrance CD ISO with the help of openSUSE community that contains a complete music production environment."
Compile your own version of OpenOffice.org with all occurances to the name changed to Microsoft Excel, Word or whatever. Replace the splash screen and tell them it's a special new version from Micrsosoft especially for cheapskates.
You're clearly not "as much as Linux fan as the next guy" or you might have thought it through for 10 seconds before commenting.
If Silverlight is widely adopted, a whole bunch of the web becomes inaccessible to Linux users. What if sites Linux users depend on start to use Silverlight because it's easier to code than, say DHTML. What if my bank decides to use it? What if it gets used for more than just pretty animations? What if it becomes a critical component of a site?
Any site that deploys Silvershite is going to get a pretty strong email from me.
I've not had any trouble getting WiFi working on a laptop in the last two years since SuSE made it a priority and sorted it out. This laptop has an Intel PRO adapter and it works flawlessly.
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My teenage daughters have no problem with over-complex Android. They love it. Just what level of intellect are they aiming WP7 at?
Why not? There's a statement with no foundation in fact. The Samsung Galaxy is already being pushed in the major smartphone outlets here. I'd have one but I'm waiting to see what the HTC offering looks like.
There should be mod points for grammar. -ve for errors and +ve for pointing them out. Those who object to being corrected are just happy being ignorant. Non-native English speakers would win by being aware of correct usage.
There is no such thing as an invulnerable company. It doesn't matter how big they are or how many products they ship. History is full of fallen Goliaths.
Nokia's respect for the privacy of its (not it's) customers doesn't extend to allowing you to unsubscribe from their annoying mailing lists. I made the mistake of registering when I had an N95. That went a long time ago but efforts to opt out of mailshots are completely ignored. I don't just get emails but SMSs too. I deleted my Ovi account but they continue to pester me.
While companies are growing, waxing profitable and don't feel threatened, it is easy for them to be honest and straight forward. It's when they see market share suffering or competition gaining the upper-hand that they tend to resort to deceptions and shady practices. Big media feels threatened by YouTube and the wider copyright violation/pirating issues but are too fat, comfortable and lazy to innovate around it. They'd much rather litigate because it's easy and avoids all that messy thinking.
The problem is that while there is now a perception of depth, the viewer isn't able to focus on what takes their attention. If the camera is focused on the foreground and you want to look at something in the background, it will be blurry. Your eye attempts to correct this but it doesn't work. This is confusing to the optical system and it's why a some people come out of 3D viewings with a headache. It's not at all obvious how this can be corrected without a personalised viewing experience that detects the viewers point of interest and brings it into focus.
I've never been able to buy anything from Amazon with just one click. Have you counted them? WARNING: More than 1 click may be required unless you are already logged on and a bunch of other requirements are in order - which they probably aren't. Please allow 30 minutes to purchase.
And what a total pain in the arse it all is when you're trying to get actual work done.
Well, I would have modded it funny.
And, while I'm at it, can we stop trying to make things smaller by multiplying them by large numbers? "1000 times less intense" is a nonsense. "A one thousandth as intense" or "a thousandth of the intensity" is what they mean. If you can't handle fractions, then "it would need to be a thousand times brighter to be visible to the naked eye".
I have a bunch of high quality images that I've taken and am happy to donate. However, when I tried to upload them I was prevented due to not having updated a sufficient number of articles. Until you've updated the text on something like 10 articles you can't upload any images. I simply haven't found that many articles I felt I could make a useful contribution to yet. It seems like an odd restriction to me. Unless you can prove you can write readable text, you can't upload pictures.
DRM helps no one achieve anything. Best selling author and former Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cory Doctorow http://craphound.com/ is an interesting guy and practices what he preaches. He lets you download his books from his website for free. Of course, if you want a nicely bound paper version, you can buy a copy. Of you can go to see the stage show of the book or the film of the book. I don't think he's starving.
It may be extreme and excessive in some departments but not all as the author would like you to believe. That sort of acceleration has been commonplace on sports motorbikes for years and my eyeballs haven't deformed yet.
Find a partner. Programming in a team is a whole lot more motivating and productive than solo. You're forced to work to produce code if the other guy needs to integrate with it. You'll also get someone to bounce ideas off this can inspire and motivate. Set milestones and reward yourselves when you reach them.
Go out and do stuff, like join clubs or get involved in local events. Some ideas:
1. Join a local amateur dramatics society. You don't have to act/sing/dance. You can work backstage on lights and sound (geeky stuff) or build sets. There are always more females than males at these things. The social side is huge.
2. Join a club to learn or enjoy one of your less geeky interests, like maybe dancing, playing music, photography, walking, etc.
3. Work in a bar at weekends. Girls you don't know will come up to you and talk to you - and order drinks.
4. Join a gym (you probably need to anyway) and look out for social activities.
5. Read the local papers for activities and events in the area.
Also: wash, shave, brush your teeth, cut your hair, wear clean clothes. Remove other useless blemishes such as iPhones.
Good luck.
Before you can outlaw it, you need to define it. This must surely require a list of banned words - but how will they publish it? Any attempt would produce a document in violation of itself.
Then there are expressions that contain no profane words but which might, as a whole, be regarded as profane.
Then, of course, people are inventive. If they can't use one word, a substitute will soon appear.
How do these morons get elected?
I can see dens of profanity opening up in dingy rooms where people gather to drink legal liquor and shout illegal vulgarities.
I'm very serious. I have parents in Canada. A PC each, Dad on Windows XP, Mum on OpenSuse Linux. Dad is always calling with problems with virus warnings, scare-ware pop-ups and hangs. A recent virus scan found over 400 suspect infections of which around 20 could be regarded as extremely undesirable. And this is with a regularly updated AVG.
The worst problem from Mum is she can't figure out how to put a picture in her newsletter or she's accidentally hidden an email folder.
Remote admin to the Linux machine is a whole lot easier and quicker with SSH than Remote Desktop.
My mother-in-law, who is only a few miles away also uses OpenSuse. I update her system ever year or so and she never has any problems.
I don't give them the root password.
It's way to easy on Windows to fool the unwary into doing something stupid.
Doesn't seem to have done Dick Cheney any harm.
Microsoft has reacted to this security exposure by launching a new version that puts the OS out of reach and is guaranteed attack-proof: Vista for Vacuums.
Over time, as man has evolved, he has reduced his need of gods from many (Sun God, God of Love, etc.) down to one - though, not necessarily the same one. The more fully evolved on the planet have made the final step and eliminated that one, too.
God is a product of man, not the other way around.
If you're working in a studio, having a laptop on a trolley on the end of a USB cable following you around is a common set-up these days. Seeing a picture on a decent laptop screen can show problems a digital camera screen hides - particularly what's in focus and what's not. But even with a long USB cable, tethered working is restrictive.
If this gives the advantages of tethered shooting without the cable, I'd buy one in an instant.
I can't read TFA - probably Slashdotted.
Did they mention JackLab - http://en.opensuse.org/JackLab ?
From their page: "JackLab would like to stimulate an entrance CD ISO with the help of openSUSE community that contains a complete music production environment."
Maybe of interest to musicians.
Compile your own version of OpenOffice.org with all occurances to the name changed to Microsoft Excel, Word or whatever. Replace the splash screen and tell them it's a special new version from Micrsosoft especially for cheapskates.
You're clearly not "as much as Linux fan as the next guy" or you might have thought it through for 10 seconds before commenting.
If Silverlight is widely adopted, a whole bunch of the web becomes inaccessible to Linux users. What if sites Linux users depend on start to use Silverlight because it's easier to code than, say DHTML. What if my bank decides to use it? What if it gets used for more than just pretty animations? What if it becomes a critical component of a site?
Any site that deploys Silvershite is going to get a pretty strong email from me.
I've not had any trouble getting WiFi working on a laptop in the last two years since SuSE made it a priority and sorted it out. This laptop has an Intel PRO adapter and it works flawlessly.