I've had this discussion with a militant atheist friend who sees no irony in banning these ads before a SW movie.
Him: "Ban the ads. When I go to the cinema I shouldn't have to pay to have my kids brainwashed by a cult." Me: "But youÂre quite happy to brainwash your 7yo kids for 2 1/2 hours on the ways of the Jedi?" Him: "But Star Wars is make-believe, no one takes it seriously as a religion." Me: "Tell that to the thousands of people who put Jedi as their religion on the census." Him: "Mate, it's science *fiction*, none of it is real." Me: "At one point neither were the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, yet Scientology exists." Him: "You're not seriously suggesting it is appropriate to show ads before a movie from a religion claiming to be the way, the truth and the light?" Me: "Well maybe not but in your rabid attack on religion in general I'm asking you to respect the rights and beliefs of those who follow the Jedi faith." Him: "Seriously? It's *not* real." Me: "Again, tell that to the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry."
I bought a second hand Toshiba laptop a few months back. It had been wiped with a clean image of Windows 7.
7 -> 10 upgrade went fine initially but then a subsequent update gave random blue screens.
An out of date Atheros wifi driver was the cause. I was able to find a newer release from Toshiba's site and yes, I needed to boot Windows in safe-mode to override the driver.
So my advice is to hunt down the newest drivers for one's hardware before upgrading.
A mythical netherworld inhabited by pirates, assassins, pederasts, drug barons, counterfeiters, political subversives, money launderers and now terrorists that 99% of slashdotters would be fearful of stumbling upon for fear of being placed on an FBI watchlist?
I'm wondering what Blackberry's plans for QNX are...
If Priv signals the beginning of the end of BBX then does the company merely become an Android handset vendor or do they leverage any technical advantages of QNX and run Android/Linux in virtualization?
Their excellent modems are the cause of their dominance in the U.S. smartphone market, where the LTE cellular network roll-out started earlier than in most of the rest of the world. This is also why their presence in tablets is significantly rarer: most tablets don't need a cellular modem.
Well I don't own a tablet but from my experience of tethering a laptop, buying a tablet without 4G would be a major annoyance if its primary purpose was to pass the time on public transport or watch a video on a summer's day under a shady tree in a park.
That's a tradeoff in buying a cheap $US100 tablet but at the medium/high end 4G should be a standard feature but isn't.
e.g. Not Qualcomm, obviously, but Apple's iPad page provides a $US130 premium on each model - there certainly isn't a $130 cost difference in electronics but rather an excuse to price gouge.
Get a backpack (or as the Brits seem to call it, a 'day pack' to differentiate it from much larger hiking gear)
Most of the laptop ones seem to be in the 20-25 litre range but I found myself a 30 litre one.
Strap a bag on the front with 'crushable' items such as bread or awkwardly dimensioned ones like toilet paper or cat litter. Beer is a problem but I can fit 2 wine bottles in the front pouch of my backpack.
Get a hand basket rather than a trolley - if you can't carry it home, you're buying too much.
I have 3 supermarkets within a 25 minute radius. Walking 3-4 times a week is the equivalent of 15 bags of groceries.
Rainfall has been below trend for a couple of decades in much of the country. The 'food bowl' of the Murray-Darling is suffering from over allocation of irrigation with a trickle reaching the end point in SA.
In suburbia, soil samples have shown where I live the moisture content is the worst in 100 years of records. So good luck growing produce in your backyard - we put in a water tank which is empty for the summer months because of low rainfall amid sweltering 40C temperatures.
Well as an omnivore, if I buy a vegie burger to cook on a barbecue I'm expecting it to taste of caramelized chickpeas and exotic herbs and spices of the Levant.
It would be a disappointment, personally, if it tasted of beef.
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Haha, yes.
I've had this discussion with a militant atheist friend who sees no irony in banning these ads before a SW movie.
Him: "Ban the ads. When I go to the cinema I shouldn't have to pay to have my kids brainwashed by a cult."
Me: "But youÂre quite happy to brainwash your 7yo kids for 2 1/2 hours on the ways of the Jedi?"
Him: "But Star Wars is make-believe, no one takes it seriously as a religion."
Me: "Tell that to the thousands of people who put Jedi as their religion on the census."
Him: "Mate, it's science *fiction*, none of it is real."
Me: "At one point neither were the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, yet Scientology exists."
Him: "You're not seriously suggesting it is appropriate to show ads before a movie from a religion claiming to be the way, the truth and the light?"
Me: "Well maybe not but in your rabid attack on religion in general I'm asking you to respect the rights and beliefs of those who follow the Jedi faith."
Him: "Seriously? It's *not* real."
Me: "Again, tell that to the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry."
Same, still running version 10.0.10240
Maybe they've stopped the update altogether?
I bought a second hand Toshiba laptop a few months back. It had been wiped with a clean image of Windows 7.
7 -> 10 upgrade went fine initially but then a subsequent update gave random blue screens.
An out of date Atheros wifi driver was the cause. I was able to find a newer release from Toshiba's site and yes, I needed to boot Windows in safe-mode to override the driver.
So my advice is to hunt down the newest drivers for one's hardware before upgrading.
A mythical netherworld inhabited by pirates, assassins, pederasts, drug barons, counterfeiters, political subversives, money launderers and now terrorists that 99% of slashdotters would be fearful of stumbling upon for fear of being placed on an FBI watchlist?
Can it not be possible to re-implement tree style tabs as an HTML5 web ext?
If XUL is going away it's because neither Fx OS nor Servo will support it if a complex UI is to be rendered in pure HTML/CSS/JS.
Video without a flash plugin is okay.
What *is* daft is autoplay. There seems to be no way to disable it and every click-bait link fires up some shitty ad.
Maybe that can be disabled via no-script or some such but I'd prefer click to play.
It's a Rupert paper.
Any time I'm paywalled by News Corporation, he's doing *me* a favour by disallowing the reading of his trashy article.
I'm wondering what Blackberry's plans for QNX are...
If Priv signals the beginning of the end of BBX then does the company merely become an Android handset vendor or do they leverage any technical advantages of QNX and run Android/Linux in virtualization?
Well I don't own a tablet but from my experience of tethering a laptop, buying a tablet without 4G would be a major annoyance if its primary purpose was to pass the time on public transport or watch a video on a summer's day under a shady tree in a park.
That's a tradeoff in buying a cheap $US100 tablet but at the medium/high end 4G should be a standard feature but isn't.
e.g. Not Qualcomm, obviously, but Apple's iPad page provides a $US130 premium on each model - there certainly isn't a $130 cost difference in electronics but rather an excuse to price gouge.
Lenovo - the same company that installed malware on its laptops now makes phones under the Motorola brand.
Why would anyone trust that?
Get a backpack (or as the Brits seem to call it, a 'day pack' to differentiate it from much larger hiking gear)
Most of the laptop ones seem to be in the 20-25 litre range but I found myself a 30 litre one.
Strap a bag on the front with 'crushable' items such as bread or awkwardly dimensioned ones like toilet paper or cat litter. Beer is a problem but I can fit 2 wine bottles in the front pouch of my backpack.
Get a hand basket rather than a trolley - if you can't carry it home, you're buying too much.
I have 3 supermarkets within a 25 minute radius. Walking 3-4 times a week is the equivalent of 15 bags of groceries.
Elites? SF LA is the 2nd busiest domestic air route in the US with roughly 10,000 passengers/day.
Emissions per capita of taking planes out of the sky and cars off the road?
As for your backlog of maintenance, that's surely simply a matter of neglect for a wealthy state with a GDP greater than Canada...
Australia.
Rainfall has been below trend for a couple of decades in much of the country. The 'food bowl' of the Murray-Darling is suffering from over allocation of irrigation with a trickle reaching the end point in SA.
In suburbia, soil samples have shown where I live the moisture content is the worst in 100 years of records. So good luck growing produce in your backyard - we put in a water tank which is empty for the summer months because of low rainfall amid sweltering 40C temperatures.
Fairphone's website specifically mentions sourcing minerals from Congo and the US law that the guardian refers to.
whether these guys are part of the problem or the solution, I'll let you be the judge.
https://www.fairphone.com/road...
The article states they aim to support the device with 5 years of updates, which is more than most.
(Assuming the company is still in existence by that stage)
"Liberal" is a cuss-word in Australia too! :)
I think the North American meaning of the word is different to ours though.
It seems like the offending code as well as the functionality may have disappeared.
Well as an omnivore, if I buy a vegie burger to cook on a barbecue I'm expecting it to taste of caramelized chickpeas and exotic herbs and spices of the Levant.
It would be a disappointment, personally, if it tasted of beef.
Saint John's Wort?
Steve Jobs Worshippers?
Single Jewish Women?
Nah, that is insanely great.
They are. Windows Bridge for iOS/Android - allows one to port applications to Windows Phone using Visual Studio.
It might be time to open a coffee shop in Vietnam! :)
Just cow's milk?
I found goat cheese in Canada was very cheap compared to Australia, during my travels in 2013. Send it my way!
Any good despite the lead actor? :)
Maybe at the arctic circle.
downunder it's a band.