There is a screenshot (not photoshopped!) of a development build with live tiles in start menu (instead of the desktop) and a modern UI app (Mail) in a window, so maybe the future will bring something roughly like that you wish for. See here.
Not palsas. Palsas are formed on bogs, as peat is necessary for summertime insulation. Because all vegetation (if there ever was any)—and with that all the peat—has long since left Mars, any former palsas shouldn't really leave that visible marks.
Palsa formation usually requires not just a peat bog, but also snow cover. Ice lenses are formed underneath the peat layer on spots where winter freezing occurs unusually rapidly e.g. due to a thin spot in snow cover. (Palsas have been deliberately created by plowing snow off from certain spots on a bog in wintertime.) Palsas are also relatively short-term formations; they will eventually melt when they grow so much that their sheer size will cause the isolating peat layer to crack, thus withdrawing the insulation that prevents ice lenses from melting during summertime.
Solifluctations are a more plausible explanation, and perhaps also collapsed pingos. AFAIK pingos have a much longer lifetime than palsas, and when they collapse they also leave around much more visible evidence of their former existence.
- However, their plants in Shanghai are still assembling retinas with the LG screen (see thread for confirmation of this) - why, I don't know; maybe they have supplies to use up.
Not true. At least not anymore, unless CTO configurations are an exception. My new work box was manufactured in Shanghai in February (in week 8 according to this page), and it seems to have Samsung's panel.
“European punctuation” is an unfortunately generic term, if one includes the digit group separator in that definition, as you just did. While all of continental Europe (as well as the entire South America!) indeed uses comma as decimal separator, digit group separator varies. For example, Germans, Greeks, Italians and Swedes would group digits with dots, while Czechs, we Finns, as well as French and Poles would use spaces. (Thin) space is also used in some applications elsewhere in the world, due to ISO 31-0. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark (and specifically the section “Examples of use”).
Here in Scotland we have Holyrood, who defer to Westminster for certain issues, who defer to the EU on top of that.
I'm not from Scotland or even UK, but if I were a Scot I'd vote for independence on the grounds of getting that intermediate Westminster layer out of the game; the presence of that only makes the UK government (the Tories for now...) present the de facto English opinion in Council of Ministers and in European Council as the opinion of the whole UK. If you'd become independence you'd get your own government to represent you in those institutions. Also, smaller countries get proportionally more MEP seats, so you'd also gain something in that.
And since this would all happen inside the EU, your access to UK markets next door wouldn't really be hindered at all. And you could still stay in the Common Travel Area as the Irish do, so the border wouldn't disturb you in practice. Heck, you could probably even make a deal to have a monetary union with the stub UK, if you'd prefer to stick with the Pound over the Euro. (I understand that right now the prospect of Eurozone membership doesn't sound all that great, although I personally think that the rumours of the future breakup of the Eurozone are greatly exaggerated.)
I'll encrypt my sticks as soon as somebody makes an encryption software that works seamlessly in Windows AND Mac OS X AND Linux, and is easy to install and use. Currently, the only one that comes even close is Truecrypt, but due to its stupid vanity licence it isn't a real option on Linux, as it is not included in repos and as such isn't easy to install.
LUKS can work on Windows (with FreeOTFE) but not on OS X, so that isn't an option, either.
I was just thinking that, from Dutch govenment's point of view, OpenVPN must be extraordinary awesome while used in combination with Diginotar-signed certs!
WTF? Driving is a privilege, not a right, not even in the US. You'll need a licence for it, and in addition you'll choose to accept certain rules and regulations by choosing to drive.
In any sensible jurisdiction, if you choose to drive, you'll accept you could be stopped and breathtested at any time and if you refuse, you'll be, and you should be, automatically subject to a blood test.
If you don't like the breathalysing, then don't drive. As simply as that. This has nothing to do with being a police state.
While it's true there's a creep of luxury 'smaller' 4WD (Porche Cayenne etc) - being new, they're generally more efficent than the 2-stroke mopeds buzzing around, for example.
Funny thing here is that F-Secure's Client Security does the same; it automatically installs an extension to Firefox that adds a toolbar reporting whether a particular site is safe.
OK, you can avoid that by choosing custom install and not installing the “browsing protection”, and even if installed you can turn it off from their GUI, but the installer does not explicitly tell you that it will install a Firefox extension.
(And yeah, others too. At least Skype and Nokia PC both do this.)
...in addition to APT, general hackability and real qwerty for fast typing.
It has resistive touchscreen and thus works well in -10 C, or so, when the gloves are not particularly thick.
Not that well in -25 C though, as using thick mittens tends to make touch somewhat imprecise.;) But at least I can use thinner gloves underneath them so that I won't have to take them completely off.
As a sidenote, Scottish whisky production, at least single malt, is actually nowadays somewhat dependent of bourbon production. This is because maturing bourbon requires new casks and single malts require used casks.
I took a tour of Talisker distillery in July, and our guide explained us that as sherry is no longer as popular product as it used to be, they nowadays use mostly bourbon casks to mature their whisky, and the regular stuff that has been matured ten years is entirely matured in bourbon casks. (Their double matured variety gets a second round in sherry casks.)
Personally I prefer stuff that's matured entirely in sherry casks; it usually has smoother and sweeter finish. Something like this Bowmore. Not that “normal” bourbon cask matured malts are bad, either.
Not only that, but I guess Linus is still a Finnish citizen (despite now living in Oregon), and a former President of Finland was given the Peace Prize just a year ago.
I think it would be quite unprecedented to reward another Finn anytime soon.
I'm Finn, and I think that GP wasn't all that insightful, but you're neither.
We fought well in Winter War, because the nation was very well united. It was, because Stalin's purges of the late 30s had largely targeted Finno-Ugric people in the area just behind our eastern border, and were a rather well known fact among us, even among the political left. That's why everybody knew that it was pretty much a fight about our nation's very existence, and the alternative for that existence would have been a nightmare. Stalin's establishment of Terijoki puppet government and his other known-to-be-rubbish propaganda also stressed that fact. Everybody also knew that Stalin had started a war of aggression (see Shelling_of_Mainila; Yeltsin agreed with that interpretation at 1994).
Soviet army was also very poorly led (again, due to Stalin's purges), had poor winter equipment (and that winter was harsh!), and had been led to believe that Finns would welcome them as liberators. In reality, Finns had enjoyed economic upswing during late 30s, its democracy had gradually became more stable, and the unwelcome war only messed up everything, so the war nothing but fed hatred toward Russians and united the nation.
If Stalin had shown friendly or at least neutral policy towards Finland in first place, neither Winter nor Continuation War had never happened, and we'd been able to concentrate in blocking any German invasion attempts (remeber that Sweden did just that; see military spending). But after Winter War, Finns wanted justice; they wanted back their beloved territory that had been illegally robbed off them (some among us still want it back, even though most of us now understand that it wouldn't make sense anymore). And in that situation, Germany was seen as a lesser evil. We were simply too small to cope alone any longer.
The East Carelian conquest and occupation policy pursued during Continuation War by the wartime goverment generally wasn't supported by the political left, and despite of it and the co-operation with Germans Finns still weren't sympathisers of Nazi policies. Remember that we also had some Jewish soldiers and there were field synagogues for them, all under the very nose of the Germans. (Despite of this, Finland did extradite eight Jewish refugees to Germans at 1942 under murky conditions; they ended up in Auschwitz, and this has later been seen nationally as a very shameful event.)
Former Finland's UN ambassador, who is Jewish, and who fought in Finnish army during the war, once said that he didn't even think about the German danger until 1944, when Finland actively started to seek a way out of the war; only then he started to fear the consequences of Finland's possible separate peace with the Soviets (without German approval), and started to be afraid, whether Germany would attempt to occupy as a result. Before that he only cared about the Soviet danger.
Read English Wikipedia's articles about Winter War and Continuation War. They're very informative, and fairly well balanced, at least comparing to many other sources that often take too single-sided (either Finnish or Russian) viewpoint.
It'd be really nice if there was a laptop for people who actually need a mobile computer to work with instead of an oversized portable DVD player.
There are, but if Apple was manufacturing those, they'd offer an option to replace that DVD drive with an extra battery so that you could actually work through the day without recharging.
Alas, they don't, so my next box will most likely be some PC that can be configured with loads of batteries, as I'm tired of carrying around a power adapter and an empty optical drive.
(Sure, batteries are heavy, but inside the case they're still quite tolerable.)
Thank you for your corrections. Some of the mistakes, like the extra commas, I noticed right away after posting (It's funny how you can never spot something in preview you spot right after posting). Some of them are clearly due to my tiredness, and my hastiness (I didn't really spend any time checking grammar to get the post out faster). Some are probably genuine mistakes.
Many operators have also announced that they will make the filtering voluntary to their customers due to technical problems and negative publicity.
Did they announce this to their customers, or will they make filtering voluntary to their customers? If the former, you need to rearrange as "Many operators have also announced to their customers that they will..." If the latter, "to" is the wrong word here. I'm not sure the best thing to replace it with.
The latter is the right meaning, and the correct preposition is "for". Sorry for the ambiguousness.
But there are still differences in the time how quickly the addresses on the list will end up in systems of different operators. W3C's address is known to have been end up also to the systems of Mikkeli Telecom Co-operative (MPY).
I suspect you got extra tired here.
Indeed; at that point I just wished to finish the thing quickly.
Sorry for the bad quality, it is 5 AM in Finland, and I'm very tired. But I bet I can still beat Google's translation service.
W3C's site on Finnish censorship list
(Updated on 27/9/08 at 19:31: DNA wasn't the only operator affected by the censorship.)
Customers of telecom operator DNA were unable to access the web server of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organisation developing web standards, on Friday evening and early Saturday, because the address of the site had erroneously became included on the censorship list of National Bureau of Investigation.
Many readers of Tietokone magazine informed us late Friday evening and early Saturday that a police information page was opened instead of www.w3.org. The information page says that the target page includes child pornography. The problem was fixed on early Saturday, and currently DNA's customers should be able to access W3C's site normally.
Different operators use the same filtering list provided by the NBI, but different operators may fetch the updated list at different times.
Internet activist Matti Nikki also describes of these observations on his lapsiporno.info -site (lapsiporno == child pornography), which still cannot be accessed by those operators' connections that use the filtering list. (Translator's note: using the list is not mandatory for operators.)
Operators have kept filtering webpages by domain, even though this is not the first time the practice has caused ambiguousness in censorship.
NBI and operators assured last spring, that ambiguous domain-based filtering can be replaced by URL-based filtering, but implementation of this change has been delayed. Many operators have also announced that they will make the filtering voluntary to their customers due to technical problems and negative publicity.
Censorship list in the hands of the NBI
Internet operators gave an estimate for Tietokone magazine last spring, that implementing a precise URL-based filtering system will cost millions of euros. Present domain-based filtering methods are based on domain name redirects or so-called mandatory proxies, i.e. transparent proxies.
Public relationship officer of DNA, Sinikka Veneranta, says that the police removes and adds addresses to the list as they see best, and the operator does no processing for the addresses on the list by itself.
But there are still differences in the time how quickly the addresses on the list will end up in systems of different operators. W3C's address is known to have been end up also to the systems of Mikkeli Telecom Co-operative (MPY).
Worth noticing, though, that in this case the problematic letter is part of latin-1, so one should be able to insert it without either HTML entities or Unicode support.
Unfortunately, it still does not work, because the charset for the comment input boxes seems to be UTF-8, but Slashcode obviously interprets it as if it were latin-1. The result is that a wrong character (Ã) gets printed (instead of the right one), and at least in this case you can't even work around it, as the latin-1 codepoint of the problematic character happens to be invalid unicode.
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I thought it was well known that The Nexus 6 models had issues. Thankfully they'll only last four years at best.
I still think they're defective by design. Heed my words: there'll be more trouble down the road unless the entire model line is cancelled.
If Goo^H^H^HTyrell insists shipping them, then at least they should be kept off-world at all costs!
There is a screenshot (not photoshopped!) of a development build with live tiles in start menu (instead of the desktop) and a modern UI app (Mail) in a window, so maybe the future will bring something roughly like that you wish for. See here.
Not palsas. Palsas are formed on bogs, as peat is necessary for summertime insulation. Because all vegetation (if there ever was any)—and with that all the peat—has long since left Mars, any former palsas shouldn't really leave that visible marks.
Palsa formation usually requires not just a peat bog, but also snow cover. Ice lenses are formed underneath the peat layer on spots where winter freezing occurs unusually rapidly e.g. due to a thin spot in snow cover. (Palsas have been deliberately created by plowing snow off from certain spots on a bog in wintertime.) Palsas are also relatively short-term formations; they will eventually melt when they grow so much that their sheer size will cause the isolating peat layer to crack, thus withdrawing the insulation that prevents ice lenses from melting during summertime.
Solifluctations are a more plausible explanation, and perhaps also collapsed pingos. AFAIK pingos have a much longer lifetime than palsas, and when they collapse they also leave around much more visible evidence of their former existence.
Not true. At least not anymore, unless CTO configurations are an exception. My new work box was manufactured in Shanghai in February (in week 8 according to this page), and it seems to have Samsung's panel.
(apologies for the anon posting - the /. login mechanism appears currently unable to cope with my (albeit somewhat strange) username....)
Bobby Tables, is that you?
“European punctuation” is an unfortunately generic term, if one includes the digit group separator in that definition, as you just did. While all of continental Europe (as well as the entire South America!) indeed uses comma as decimal separator, digit group separator varies. For example, Germans, Greeks, Italians and Swedes would group digits with dots, while Czechs, we Finns, as well as French and Poles would use spaces. (Thin) space is also used in some applications elsewhere in the world, due to ISO 31-0. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark (and specifically the section “Examples of use”).
I'm not from Scotland or even UK, but if I were a Scot I'd vote for independence on the grounds of getting that intermediate Westminster layer out of the game; the presence of that only makes the UK government (the Tories for now...) present the de facto English opinion in Council of Ministers and in European Council as the opinion of the whole UK. If you'd become independence you'd get your own government to represent you in those institutions. Also, smaller countries get proportionally more MEP seats, so you'd also gain something in that.
And since this would all happen inside the EU, your access to UK markets next door wouldn't really be hindered at all. And you could still stay in the Common Travel Area as the Irish do, so the border wouldn't disturb you in practice. Heck, you could probably even make a deal to have a monetary union with the stub UK, if you'd prefer to stick with the Pound over the Euro. (I understand that right now the prospect of Eurozone membership doesn't sound all that great, although I personally think that the rumours of the future breakup of the Eurozone are greatly exaggerated.)
I'll encrypt my sticks as soon as somebody makes an encryption software that works seamlessly in Windows AND Mac OS X AND Linux, and is easy to install and use. Currently, the only one that comes even close is Truecrypt, but due to its stupid vanity licence it isn't a real option on Linux, as it is not included in repos and as such isn't easy to install.
LUKS can work on Windows (with FreeOTFE) but not on OS X, so that isn't an option, either.
I was just thinking that, from Dutch govenment's point of view, OpenVPN must be extraordinary awesome while used in combination with Diginotar-signed certs!
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist.)
Don't think so; this brings mrs. Vandergilt to my mind.
WTF? Driving is a privilege, not a right, not even in the US. You'll need a licence for it, and in addition you'll choose to accept certain rules and regulations by choosing to drive.
In any sensible jurisdiction, if you choose to drive, you'll accept you could be stopped and breathtested at any time and if you refuse, you'll be, and you should be, automatically subject to a blood test.
If you don't like the breathalysing, then don't drive. As simply as that. This has nothing to do with being a police state.
While it's true there's a creep of luxury 'smaller' 4WD (Porche Cayenne etc) - being new, they're generally more efficent than the 2-stroke mopeds buzzing around, for example.
Efficient my arse: http://www.porsche.com/international/models/cayenne/cayenne/featuresandspecs/
An efficient petrol-run 4WD car can run with less than 8 l/100 km. If it's diesel, it can run with 5 l/100 km.
If it's just 2WD, then cut off additional 1.5-2 liters per 100 km.
Well, the GP is obviously an American. The CR-V is probably about the tiniest car permitted by federal law. :P
Shit. “Nokia PC” should have been “Nokia PC Suite”. But anyway.
Funny thing here is that F-Secure's Client Security does the same; it automatically installs an extension to Firefox that adds a toolbar reporting whether a particular site is safe.
OK, you can avoid that by choosing custom install and not installing the “browsing protection”, and even if installed you can turn it off from their GUI, but the installer does not explicitly tell you that it will install a Firefox extension.
(And yeah, others too. At least Skype and Nokia PC both do this.)
...in addition to APT, general hackability and real qwerty for fast typing.
It has resistive touchscreen and thus works well in -10 C, or so, when the gloves are not particularly thick.
Not that well in -25 C though, as using thick mittens tends to make touch somewhat imprecise. ;) But at least I can use thinner gloves underneath them so that I won't have to take them completely off.
As a sidenote, Scottish whisky production, at least single malt, is actually nowadays somewhat dependent of bourbon production. This is because maturing bourbon requires new casks and single malts require used casks.
I took a tour of Talisker distillery in July, and our guide explained us that as sherry is no longer as popular product as it used to be, they nowadays use mostly bourbon casks to mature their whisky, and the regular stuff that has been matured ten years is entirely matured in bourbon casks. (Their double matured variety gets a second round in sherry casks.)
Personally I prefer stuff that's matured entirely in sherry casks; it usually has smoother and sweeter finish. Something like this Bowmore. Not that “normal” bourbon cask matured malts are bad, either.
Not only that, but I guess Linus is still a Finnish citizen (despite now living in Oregon), and a former President of Finland was given the Peace Prize just a year ago.
I think it would be quite unprecedented to reward another Finn anytime soon.
Try one of the following:
I hope someone will mirror the PDF somewhere.
I'm Finn, and I think that GP wasn't all that insightful, but you're neither.
We fought well in Winter War, because the nation was very well united. It was, because Stalin's purges of the late 30s had largely targeted Finno-Ugric people in the area just behind our eastern border, and were a rather well known fact among us, even among the political left. That's why everybody knew that it was pretty much a fight about our nation's very existence, and the alternative for that existence would have been a nightmare. Stalin's establishment of Terijoki puppet government and his other known-to-be-rubbish propaganda also stressed that fact. Everybody also knew that Stalin had started a war of aggression (see Shelling_of_Mainila; Yeltsin agreed with that interpretation at 1994).
Soviet army was also very poorly led (again, due to Stalin's purges), had poor winter equipment (and that winter was harsh!), and had been led to believe that Finns would welcome them as liberators. In reality, Finns had enjoyed economic upswing during late 30s, its democracy had gradually became more stable, and the unwelcome war only messed up everything, so the war nothing but fed hatred toward Russians and united the nation.
If Stalin had shown friendly or at least neutral policy towards Finland in first place, neither Winter nor Continuation War had never happened, and we'd been able to concentrate in blocking any German invasion attempts (remeber that Sweden did just that; see military spending). But after Winter War, Finns wanted justice; they wanted back their beloved territory that had been illegally robbed off them (some among us still want it back, even though most of us now understand that it wouldn't make sense anymore). And in that situation, Germany was seen as a lesser evil. We were simply too small to cope alone any longer.
The East Carelian conquest and occupation policy pursued during Continuation War by the wartime goverment generally wasn't supported by the political left, and despite of it and the co-operation with Germans Finns still weren't sympathisers of Nazi policies. Remember that we also had some Jewish soldiers and there were field synagogues for them, all under the very nose of the Germans. (Despite of this, Finland did extradite eight Jewish refugees to Germans at 1942 under murky conditions; they ended up in Auschwitz, and this has later been seen nationally as a very shameful event.)
Former Finland's UN ambassador, who is Jewish, and who fought in Finnish army during the war, once said that he didn't even think about the German danger until 1944, when Finland actively started to seek a way out of the war; only then he started to fear the consequences of Finland's possible separate peace with the Soviets (without German approval), and started to be afraid, whether Germany would attempt to occupy as a result. Before that he only cared about the Soviet danger.
Read English Wikipedia's articles about Winter War and Continuation War. They're very informative, and fairly well balanced, at least comparing to many other sources that often take too single-sided (either Finnish or Russian) viewpoint.
It'd be really nice if there was a laptop for people who actually need a mobile computer to work with instead of an oversized portable DVD player.
There are, but if Apple was manufacturing those, they'd offer an option to replace that DVD drive with an extra battery so that you could actually work through the day without recharging.
Alas, they don't, so my next box will most likely be some PC that can be configured with loads of batteries, as I'm tired of carrying around a power adapter and an empty optical drive.
(Sure, batteries are heavy, but inside the case they're still quite tolerable.)
Thank you for your corrections. Some of the mistakes, like the extra commas, I noticed right away after posting (It's funny how you can never spot something in preview you spot right after posting). Some of them are clearly due to my tiredness, and my hastiness (I didn't really spend any time checking grammar to get the post out faster). Some are probably genuine mistakes.
Many operators have also announced that they will make the filtering voluntary to their customers due to technical problems and negative publicity.
Did they announce this to their customers, or will they make filtering voluntary to their customers? If the former, you need to rearrange as "Many operators have also announced to their customers that they will..." If the latter, "to" is the wrong word here. I'm not sure the best thing to replace it with.
The latter is the right meaning, and the correct preposition is "for". Sorry for the ambiguousness.
But there are still differences in the time how quickly the addresses on the list will end up in systems of different operators. W3C's address is known to have been end up also to the systems of Mikkeli Telecom Co-operative (MPY).
I suspect you got extra tired here.
Indeed; at that point I just wished to finish the thing quickly.
Sorry for the bad quality, it is 5 AM in Finland, and I'm very tired. But I bet I can still beat Google's translation service.
W3C's site on Finnish censorship list
(Updated on 27/9/08 at 19:31: DNA wasn't the only operator affected by the censorship.)
Customers of telecom operator DNA were unable to access the web server of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organisation developing web standards, on Friday evening and early Saturday, because the address of the site had erroneously became included on the censorship list of National Bureau of Investigation.
Many readers of Tietokone magazine informed us late Friday evening and early Saturday that a police information page was opened instead of www.w3.org. The information page says that the target page includes child pornography. The problem was fixed on early Saturday, and currently DNA's customers should be able to access W3C's site normally.
Different operators use the same filtering list provided by the NBI, but different operators may fetch the updated list at different times.
Internet activist Matti Nikki also describes of these observations on his lapsiporno.info -site (lapsiporno == child pornography), which still cannot be accessed by those operators' connections that use the filtering list. (Translator's note: using the list is not mandatory for operators.)
Operators have kept filtering webpages by domain, even though this is not the first time the practice has caused ambiguousness in censorship.
NBI and operators assured last spring, that ambiguous domain-based filtering can be replaced by URL-based filtering, but implementation of this change has been delayed. Many operators have also announced that they will make the filtering voluntary to their customers due to technical problems and negative publicity.
Censorship list in the hands of the NBI
Internet operators gave an estimate for Tietokone magazine last spring, that implementing a precise URL-based filtering system will cost millions of euros. Present domain-based filtering methods are based on domain name redirects or so-called mandatory proxies, i.e. transparent proxies.
Public relationship officer of DNA, Sinikka Veneranta, says that the police removes and adds addresses to the list as they see best, and the operator does no processing for the addresses on the list by itself.
But there are still differences in the time how quickly the addresses on the list will end up in systems of different operators. W3C's address is known to have been end up also to the systems of Mikkeli Telecom Co-operative (MPY).
So everyone else on this thread is offtopic, but GP is +5, Insightful?
Could someone of the crack-smoking moderators please explain me this logic?
Worth noticing, though, that in this case the problematic letter is part of latin-1, so one should be able to insert it without either HTML entities or Unicode support.
Unfortunately, it still does not work, because the charset for the comment input boxes seems to be UTF-8, but Slashcode obviously interprets it as if it were latin-1. The result is that a wrong character (Ã) gets printed (instead of the right one), and at least in this case you can't even work around it, as the latin-1 codepoint of the problematic character happens to be invalid unicode.
Sheesh. Get to 21st century, /.!