I dunno what deluded andriod fanboy echo chamber you're pulling that info from, but it's certainly not from actual experience. I've run my iphone both jailbroken and with stock firmware at various times and the stability has been consistently flawless either way
There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.
out of interest, is there some jailbreak app that will let you back up your iOS app save data? on of the things that's always shitted me was the way there's no way to back up an individual app's data, and that if you remove an app from your device there's no way to save it's user data and use it later when you reinstall the app
assuming youre not trolling, take it into an apple store and get it replaced. if it's under a year old it's still under warranty, and that's definitely not normal battery life
Telstra used to offer a "super fast adsl2+" (about 20mbps) that had only 250mb of quota. i dont know if they still do, I would hope the ACCC reamed their asses for such dodgy practices. 1GB quotas havent been common in many many years, and even back then it was only common on cable (which has always been ruled by shitty monopolies)
it's nice to blame apple for everything that's wrong in the world, but those stupid ass glossy laptops had a strong foothold long before the first glare screen macbooks came out.
Personally I'm shocked that Americans will put up with only 12 days in the first place. In Australia 20 is the legal minimum. Various countries in Europe have 25-30 as the norm. How the fuck do you even get by on 12, even before a company like up goes and pulls a dick move like that?
I find those that are worried about their title are generally those who obtained a degree and think that anything less than the title of their choice is offensive because they take their degree far too seriously or people who, for whatever reason (ie no degree or just stupid) don't feel qualified for the job and want a excellent job title to reaffirm they're doing their job right and it will help when they're caught out and need to be find a job elsewhere.
ok then, would you graciously accept "junior" prepended to your job title? I mean, it's just a title, right?
I know personally, I dont hear a thing if im concentrating on copying something down from a board correctly. I also write quite slowly and it makes my hand cramp, so if I'm trying to get things written down before they're taken off the board I do not have the opportunity to think about what I'm writing.
take those facts and apply them to your lectures, and all I get out of them is hand written notes that I then have to go back and try to teach to myself. why exactly is this any better than me not showing up and studying of your pre-prepared notes? I'm not advocating not showing up, but what you're forcing upon students like me is no better than what you seem to be so against.
personally, when I go to a lecture I want to listen, think and ask questions. taking notes prevents all of that. by trying to force those with no concentration to learn by ROTE, you're forcing EVERYONE to sit and take notes and you're preventing many students from learning in the manners they find efficient. some people learn by seeing, others by hearing. others by doing. on the scale of learning efficiency, ROTE comes in pretty fucking low.
with things moving away from p2p and back to the client-server model, the number of people open to lawsuits drops dramatically. downloaders are no longer forced to upload, so they're no longer "making available", the the most they can be realistically charged with is making one copy.
Not noscript, I did that once and I got bollocked for that a bit because 'using the web was too hard as he had to press buttons every site he went on', the guy was a real pleb but nevermind
no, you got bollocked because noscript is shit. Adblock is a blacklist that comes with a nice choice of subscriptions, noscript is a shitty whitelist that comes with no option of preconfiguring commonly required scripts, and to top it off noscript is written by an untrustworthy dipshit who has a history of trying to fuck with users adblock settings for his own gain and spamming his site with the daily updates.
Browsing the web today with no scripts is akin to browsing with no images. Sure, it's possible but the experience is shit. I wish someone would put out a competitor to noscript that worked on the blacklist model, they'd take over in an instant. Can you imagine how much people would hate adblock if it was a whitelist and you had to add exceptions for every site you visited in order to see any content? Try it out, remove your subscriptions, add a block everything rule and start browsing the web. Then come back and claim that guy was a pleb because browsing like that is a pain in the ass. He may have been a pleb for other reasons, but he wasn't wrong about noscript
I interpret that statement (with knowledge of the shit sony typically spins) that their windows and mac software will "enable the user to read PDF, Word, BBeB and other text files on the Reader". in other words, it's going to do a conversion and look just as shitty as the kindle version amazon did for you. perhaps it's poorly worded and the device actually supports those formats natively... but this is sony we are talking about so I doubt it
I'm not convinced that's the right question. whether it is man-made or just natural climate cycles, it still looks like it's on track to fuck shit up and cause major problems for us in the future (seas rising and all that jazz).
the real question is can we do anything to stop it.
if reading things in cursive was beneficial, we'd all be using cursive fonts all over the place on computers. I dont think I've seen anyone use a cursive font on a computer that made things better in any way ever, so I can only conclude that reading cursive sucks compared to a nice clean (preferably san serif) font.
now there's the personal preference aspect, that you may prefer to hand write something; but having established that reading cursive is inferior to pretty much any decent font, you're not doing anyone any favors by opting to handwrite things.
hey, is there some way I can get in contact with you? I've been using your iphone'ized/. for a while, and found some inspiration to spend a few hours tonight making some changes to the source that I figure might be worth sending back your way. drop me an email: sootman.lucas_ at xoxy dot net
bullshit. Ares2 was doing what he's supposed to do, blocking ads. people use adblock because they dont want to see ads. the slimebag running noscript was being a cocksucker trying to subvert the users of adblock's wishes so they'd see his ads and he'd make money from the ridiculous number of do-nothing updates he releases that send users to his site. if users wanted to make an exception for noscript's ads for whatever reason, they'd do it themselves. that is not noscript's decision to make.
this doesnt really affect me since I dont use noscript, because when I did it just found it to be nagware. it seemed like everytime I restarted firefox it was updating and sending me to their site, but this latest behavior from the developer doesnt surprise me in the least
to flip your observation, are you honestly claiming that an OS's usability wouldnt go down the toilet if they replaced all the widgets with blinking fluorescent colours? usability and "eye candy" or look and feel are a lot more deeply intertwined than you're trying to portray them as
Ever since halogen incandescent bulbs were invented, about a hundred years ago. These are twice as efficient as ordinary incandescents, and run at higher temperatures to boot. Heck, they do an okay job of offsetting your heating bill, in the winter.
I cant stand halogen lighting for this very reason; I'm quite sensitive to the heat they produce. other people dont even seem to notice, but I feel the heat from even the small downlight ones. my parents redid their house with halogen downlights; maybe if they were somewhere cold I would appreciate it, but where they live is on average 30-35C so halogen bulbs just meant I would rather sit in the dark and than have the lights on. if you want heat, I'm sure a ceramic heater would be more efficient than halogen bulbs anyway
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Theyre already gone. All you can do now is download the shitty low res copies facebook keeps
I'll match your 'what if' and raise you '21 out in the wild actual cases of malware'. Your move.
Independent my ass
Also, jailbroken iphone = horribly unstable
I dunno what deluded andriod fanboy echo chamber you're pulling that info from, but it's certainly not from actual experience. I've run my iphone both jailbroken and with stock firmware at various times and the stability has been consistently flawless either way
There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.
out of interest, is there some jailbreak app that will let you back up your iOS app save data? on of the things that's always shitted me was the way there's no way to back up an individual app's data, and that if you remove an app from your device there's no way to save it's user data and use it later when you reinstall the app
assuming youre not trolling, take it into an apple store and get it replaced. if it's under a year old it's still under warranty, and that's definitely not normal battery life
Telstra used to offer a "super fast adsl2+" (about 20mbps) that had only 250mb of quota. i dont know if they still do, I would hope the ACCC reamed their asses for such dodgy practices. 1GB quotas havent been common in many many years, and even back then it was only common on cable (which has always been ruled by shitty monopolies)
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it's nice to blame apple for everything that's wrong in the world, but those stupid ass glossy laptops had a strong foothold long before the first glare screen macbooks came out.
Why can't we push all this short range, high bandwidth stuff onto 5 GHz?
pretty simple really, because people are tight-arses and wont pay extra for the licencing to use non-ism spectrum
Personally I'm shocked that Americans will put up with only 12 days in the first place. In Australia 20 is the legal minimum. Various countries in Europe have 25-30 as the norm. How the fuck do you even get by on 12, even before a company like up goes and pulls a dick move like that?
I find those that are worried about their title are generally those who obtained a degree and think that anything less than the title of their choice is offensive because they take their degree far too seriously or people who, for whatever reason (ie no degree or just stupid) don't feel qualified for the job and want a excellent job title to reaffirm they're doing their job right and it will help when they're caught out and need to be find a job elsewhere.
ok then, would you graciously accept "junior" prepended to your job title? I mean, it's just a title, right?
I know personally, I dont hear a thing if im concentrating on copying something down from a board correctly. I also write quite slowly and it makes my hand cramp, so if I'm trying to get things written down before they're taken off the board I do not have the opportunity to think about what I'm writing.
take those facts and apply them to your lectures, and all I get out of them is hand written notes that I then have to go back and try to teach to myself. why exactly is this any better than me not showing up and studying of your pre-prepared notes? I'm not advocating not showing up, but what you're forcing upon students like me is no better than what you seem to be so against.
personally, when I go to a lecture I want to listen, think and ask questions. taking notes prevents all of that. by trying to force those with no concentration to learn by ROTE, you're forcing EVERYONE to sit and take notes and you're preventing many students from learning in the manners they find efficient. some people learn by seeing, others by hearing. others by doing. on the scale of learning efficiency, ROTE comes in pretty fucking low.
I'm only a jr software dev but I make more money than that before lunch each day. Are you still at uni or something?
with things moving away from p2p and back to the client-server model, the number of people open to lawsuits drops dramatically. downloaders are no longer forced to upload, so they're no longer "making available", the the most they can be realistically charged with is making one copy.
But it's really easy for the less tech savvy to forget to unplug stuff and break ports and hardware.
WTF? Just how dumb are the devs you work with, and why hasn't working with them driven you to quit and find a job somewhere not staffed by morons?
no, you got bollocked because noscript is shit. Adblock is a blacklist that comes with a nice choice of subscriptions, noscript is a shitty whitelist that comes with no option of preconfiguring commonly required scripts, and to top it off noscript is written by an untrustworthy dipshit who has a history of trying to fuck with users adblock settings for his own gain and spamming his site with the daily updates.
Browsing the web today with no scripts is akin to browsing with no images. Sure, it's possible but the experience is shit. I wish someone would put out a competitor to noscript that worked on the blacklist model, they'd take over in an instant. Can you imagine how much people would hate adblock if it was a whitelist and you had to add exceptions for every site you visited in order to see any content? Try it out, remove your subscriptions, add a block everything rule and start browsing the web. Then come back and claim that guy was a pleb because browsing like that is a pain in the ass. He may have been a pleb for other reasons, but he wasn't wrong about noscript
I interpret that statement (with knowledge of the shit sony typically spins) that their windows and mac software will "enable the user to read PDF, Word, BBeB and other text files on the Reader". in other words, it's going to do a conversion and look just as shitty as the kindle version amazon did for you. perhaps it's poorly worded and the device actually supports those formats natively... but this is sony we are talking about so I doubt it
I'm not convinced that's the right question. whether it is man-made or just natural climate cycles, it still looks like it's on track to fuck shit up and cause major problems for us in the future (seas rising and all that jazz).
the real question is can we do anything to stop it.
if reading things in cursive was beneficial, we'd all be using cursive fonts all over the place on computers. I dont think I've seen anyone use a cursive font on a computer that made things better in any way ever, so I can only conclude that reading cursive sucks compared to a nice clean (preferably san serif) font.
now there's the personal preference aspect, that you may prefer to hand write something; but having established that reading cursive is inferior to pretty much any decent font, you're not doing anyone any favors by opting to handwrite things.
in short, good riddance.
hey, is there some way I can get in contact with you? I've been using your iphone'ized /. for a while, and found some inspiration to spend a few hours tonight making some changes to the source that I figure might be worth sending back your way. drop me an email: sootman.lucas_ at xoxy dot net
Ares2 was overzealous in attempting to block ads
bullshit. Ares2 was doing what he's supposed to do, blocking ads. people use adblock because they dont want to see ads. the slimebag running noscript was being a cocksucker trying to subvert the users of adblock's wishes so they'd see his ads and he'd make money from the ridiculous number of do-nothing updates he releases that send users to his site. if users wanted to make an exception for noscript's ads for whatever reason, they'd do it themselves. that is not noscript's decision to make.
this doesnt really affect me since I dont use noscript, because when I did it just found it to be nagware. it seemed like everytime I restarted firefox it was updating and sending me to their site, but this latest behavior from the developer doesnt surprise me in the least
to flip your observation, are you honestly claiming that an OS's usability wouldnt go down the toilet if they replaced all the widgets with blinking fluorescent colours? usability and "eye candy" or look and feel are a lot more deeply intertwined than you're trying to portray them as
OMG, splitting a tweet into multiple sms's would be unthinkable! oh the horror!
Ever since halogen incandescent bulbs were invented, about a hundred years ago. These are twice as efficient as ordinary incandescents, and run at higher temperatures to boot. Heck, they do an okay job of offsetting your heating bill, in the winter.
I cant stand halogen lighting for this very reason; I'm quite sensitive to the heat they produce. other people dont even seem to notice, but I feel the heat from even the small downlight ones. my parents redid their house with halogen downlights; maybe if they were somewhere cold I would appreciate it, but where they live is on average 30-35C so halogen bulbs just meant I would rather sit in the dark and than have the lights on. if you want heat, I'm sure a ceramic heater would be more efficient than halogen bulbs anyway