Google maps treasure maps, cool idea. Encrypting summaries on/., extremely annoying. There goes a bunch of ad revenue for the day. I'm probably not the only one who is leaving for the day.
BB is great, but I found S5 - Part 1 pretty weak in spots. It seemed like the writers were trying to hard to be good instead of just being good and the end result was characters doing things just to do them. Mike's storyline seemed pretty forced at the end, for example. I hope Part 2 gets BB back to form.
Season 3 is great and the best season IMO, expect a big decline in 4 and 5. Bad choices by the showrunner really killed the show for me and alot of people I know who watched it. The S3 finale will leave you wondering how they could've made such a bad decision.
Instead it appears that they settling into comfortable middle age.
Settling into middle age and getting a bunch of unnecessary cosmetic surgery that will leave it a freakish caricature of its former self. How long until it gets a few Windows 8-ish Metroll implants?
From what I've heard BB10 has discrete sand-boxing functionality for work and home email, contacts, phone books, etc built into the OS. My Nexus 4 certainly doesn't have that, not sure about the iOS world. The closest thing I've seen on another phone is "kids mode" on Windows 8 phones, which is a great idea IMO. Companies are requiring more and more security measures in place phones, PCs, etc so I think this feature will at least get some notice by the Fortune 500.
What about government access to on-disk data? Given how they are trying to pry into as much as they can these days them having easy access to a "terror suspect's" data wouldn't surprise me. I guess they could just put the Carnivore servers in the ISPs that feed the cloud data centers.
A chocolate teapot would most likely be delicious, not worthless, unless made with a terrible chocolate. You are just trying to use something for which it wasn't designed, like trying to use/. for a news site. Now where can I pick up one of these teapots?
Been using Windows 8 on my "old" PC since the first public release and as they kept releasing new beta versions I kept expecting the Modern GUI to be cleaned up, apps given better interface, more functionality, the store to be somewhat usable at some point (its still garbage in the released version), etc, but alas the RC came and not a whole lot changed.
To me the UI feels 1/2 done, like they plopped a mobile UI on mouse and keyboard driven UI and called it a day. Given the tons of code in Windows you think they could add in a few if/else blocks to check which platform you are on and adjust the UI a bit to the platform. The Vista/Win8 comparisons are rather apt, IMO.
I would love a mobile OS with Amazon.com baked into it! I'm also looking forward to the Firefox OS, Gnome 4 and Windows 9. The future of operating systems looks amazing! Less functionality, same great taste!
I got in the November wave of beta invites and so far I l like what I've seen. The only reason I've stuck with Windows at home is for gaming and if Valve can get enough traction behind Linux gaming I can finally cut out Microsoft. It will take years for that to potentially happen but Steam on Linux it can only serve to help Linux in general. Valve has already worked directly with AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Canonical to name a few companies and if consumers and game companies see some success more will (hopefully) follow.
When they ran the pilot last year (or was it two years ago) I found it useful and actually was fairly accurate. Deerfoot bottlenecks and congests at certain points every day and once you are past those it moves along OK if there aren't any accidents, blizzards, etc. If I see an estimated time that is way larger than the usual time including bottleneck congestion I'll probably try a different route. I was surprised and happy to see it up and running yesterday.
Right now when I build a PC I can pick motherboard X and processor Y, getting the price/features/performance combination I want. If this does go through the choices we have a consumers will be greatly reduced I would guess.
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Google maps treasure maps, cool idea. Encrypting summaries on /., extremely annoying. There goes a bunch of ad revenue for the day. I'm probably not the only one who is leaving for the day.
The trolls and therefore page hits would increase with the Microsoft logo instead of the Nintendo logo.
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BB is great, but I found S5 - Part 1 pretty weak in spots. It seemed like the writers were trying to hard to be good instead of just being good and the end result was characters doing things just to do them. Mike's storyline seemed pretty forced at the end, for example. I hope Part 2 gets BB back to form.
Season 3 is great and the best season IMO, expect a big decline in 4 and 5. Bad choices by the showrunner really killed the show for me and alot of people I know who watched it. The S3 finale will leave you wondering how they could've made such a bad decision.
Hopefully its not Phase 1 of "Operation Push Everyone to Social Media Accounts", like so many other websites are doing these days.
Instead it appears that they settling into comfortable middle age.
Settling into middle age and getting a bunch of unnecessary cosmetic surgery that will leave it a freakish caricature of its former self. How long until it gets a few Windows 8-ish Metroll implants?
From what I've heard BB10 has discrete sand-boxing functionality for work and home email, contacts, phone books, etc built into the OS. My Nexus 4 certainly doesn't have that, not sure about the iOS world. The closest thing I've seen on another phone is "kids mode" on Windows 8 phones, which is a great idea IMO. Companies are requiring more and more security measures in place phones, PCs, etc so I think this feature will at least get some notice by the Fortune 500.
What about government access to on-disk data? Given how they are trying to pry into as much as they can these days them having easy access to a "terror suspect's" data wouldn't surprise me. I guess they could just put the Carnivore servers in the ISPs that feed the cloud data centers.
worthless as a chocolate teapot.
/. for a news site. Now where can I pick up one of these teapots?
A chocolate teapot would most likely be delicious, not worthless, unless made with a terrible chocolate. You are just trying to use something for which it wasn't designed, like trying to use
Been using Windows 8 on my "old" PC since the first public release and as they kept releasing new beta versions I kept expecting the Modern GUI to be cleaned up, apps given better interface, more functionality, the store to be somewhat usable at some point (its still garbage in the released version), etc, but alas the RC came and not a whole lot changed.
To me the UI feels 1/2 done, like they plopped a mobile UI on mouse and keyboard driven UI and called it a day. Given the tons of code in Windows you think they could add in a few if/else blocks to check which platform you are on and adjust the UI a bit to the platform. The Vista/Win8 comparisons are rather apt, IMO.
Especially poo drinkers.
From the link: http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/the-787-dreamliner-scenario-how-data-can-solve-epic-messes/
"That’s supremely bad news for Boeing, which poured millions of dollars into the 787’s development."
No wonder its having issues. Or maybe Dr. Evil wrote this article?
I'm tiring of Gnome 3, but would like to stick with Fedora. What are /.ers opinions of MATE?
this content."
My loss.
Also, GNU/Linux? What the hell, are we back to 1995?
Fortunately, no. http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/
I would love a mobile OS with Amazon.com baked into it! I'm also looking forward to the Firefox OS, Gnome 4 and Windows 9. The future of operating systems looks amazing! Less functionality, same great taste!
GCN stands for "GameCube Nintendo" and as far as I recall did not describe any particular hardware component of the console.
I got in the November wave of beta invites and so far I l like what I've seen. The only reason I've stuck with Windows at home is for gaming and if Valve can get enough traction behind Linux gaming I can finally cut out Microsoft. It will take years for that to potentially happen but Steam on Linux it can only serve to help Linux in general. Valve has already worked directly with AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Canonical to name a few companies and if consumers and game companies see some success more will (hopefully) follow.
Just dump the data into the tubes, add a few valves, screens and pumps and boom, problem solved.
No, the US isn't corrupt, its the person who can afford the most lawyers who wins, silly.
When they ran the pilot last year (or was it two years ago) I found it useful and actually was fairly accurate. Deerfoot bottlenecks and congests at certain points every day and once you are past those it moves along OK if there aren't any accidents, blizzards, etc. If I see an estimated time that is way larger than the usual time including bottleneck congestion I'll probably try a different route. I was surprised and happy to see it up and running yesterday.
Compared to Gnome 3... Metro isn't all that bad. I can still put things on the Desktop with Metro, what a concept!
Now isn't that nice!
I don't remember them removing features though
The PS3 is the console they did that with. Backwards compat with PS2, ability to install Linux, fewer USB ports I think, etc.
Right now when I build a PC I can pick motherboard X and processor Y, getting the price/features/performance combination I want. If this does go through the choices we have a consumers will be greatly reduced I would guess.