Yes, you can turn it off. Just go to Settings -> Labels -> Buzz : Show | Hide and select hide. Bye bye Buzz.
I've kind of poked at it with a stick since Facebook's Fuckup with the new new (new?) UI changes.
Buzz feels a bit... unfinished to me. It's just one box to put status updates in, and not much else. The average Facebook user is going to find it wanting, even if they hate the new Facebook UI.
But it's a start. And if it's one thing Google has, it's time and money to burn. Facebook better watch out.
WebOS phones (Pre, Pre +, Pixi, Pixi +) are designed around multitasking.
My Sprint Pre can run around 10 apps simultaneously without batting an eye. It starts to slow as I hit the 11th app and maxes out at around 13 apps.
The new Pre Plus (Verizon) has more RAM and can handle about 50 apps max, around 30 - 40 smoothly.
Android has limited multitasking that isn't terribly intuitive to use, and even the iPhone3Gs can only multitask with Apple apps.
Personally I just don't get the sudden obsession among/. readers with the Android. It's really not THAT good of a phone OS. It's doesn't have full multitasking, there are MASSIVE versioning problems with it (HOW many different iterations of the OS are out there now? 10? MORE?) and it's generally difficult to develop for. About the only things it has going for it are that it has been put into some nice handsets, and it's semi-open source.
WebOS is head and shoulders better than Android. It multitasks better, has more core features, is easier to develop for, and is smoother and easier to use, even on the 1.0 handsets with less RAM.
Yet all I hear on/. is "iPhone, Android, iPhone, Android" ALL FRACKING DAY LONG. It's like WebOS isn't even on your radar, despite being better in almost every conceivable way to BOTH the Android OS and the iPhone OS.
You obviously don't live where it snows regularly.
In the midwest winds can really get moving. (flat terrain, open spaces with minimal tree cover) and when it snows, it snows sideways and it can be very "sticky" (lightly frozen) snow. Thus you get situations where you have a traffic light that looks like someone took a flocking gun to it. All white on one side, clear on the other. All the slopey lenses and bottomless covers in the world won't help that. Also, those are already in use anyway and they aren't helping.
It should be noted that this also illustrates the law of unintended consequences very well. All this "green" tech is fine and dandy, until some adverse weather shows up. Then you're wishing you still had that SUV, or proper stoplight bulbs, or whatever it was that you gave up to save 2 cents with "green" tech.
In the end it would probably be cheaper to just stick with the "old style" incandescent traffic lights that don't need fancy "snow melters" or snow crews to clear them.
If the city is paying too much in power bills, rather than swapping to LED stoplights, maybe they should consider allowing a power company to build a power plant of some kind nearby. The solution to high energy costs is not always conservation, often it's to create a larger supply.
So... Offering a link to an opposing point of view (that apparently is at odds with your own, judging by the tenor of your response) is now equal to not being able to stomach opposing points of view?
While I doubt we agree on everything, we can agree on this one point: I don't go to movies to be preached at.
Particularly by some hollywood enviro-nitwit hypocrite. If I want to be preached at, I'll go watch a Michael Moore movie. Otherwise I just want to be entertained with a good story, hold the politics.
And to truetorment; I can't stomach STUPID. Thus my sig.
However, your point is correct. Fox did make a mistake with the party affiliation in the highlighted instance. They also corrected the mistake in the next broadcast and several times over the following day.
Hardly a case for "lying" and "repeatedly representing Republicans as Democrats". Indeed, the few mistakes Fox has made, have been called out by it's OWN people often before anyone else has had a chance to digest it.
Unlike, say, most of the rest of the media, who are SO bad at it that sites like NewsBusters have made a regular topic out of it: Name That Party.
I don't claim that Fox News is perfect. FAR FROM IT. But at the same time, to try and use a massively biased leftwing troll site to provide "evidence" of some "vast Republican Conspiracy" in collusion with Fox news is just nuts.
Also, I realize that we all tend to see the world through the lens of ourselves. Being bias-free is nigh-on impossible. But where there are serial examples of obvious bias bordering on gross journalistic malfeasance it's appropriate to call it out.
I apologize if I came across a bit rudely, it's been a rough week at work. (and it's only Tuesday. Ugh.)
And OF COURSE,/. forgets to add "D-Fla" to the Reps name.
Anyone think, even for a second, if Grayson was "R-Fla" that it would have been missed?
Yeah, didn't think so.
This is what conservatives and libertarians mean when we are talking about "liberal bias" in the media. Those soft, subtle things used to quietly tweak the story to emphasize or de-emphasize precisely the point of view the writer wants his or her readers to end up with after reading the story.
Interestingly, TFA is from Fox News, which pretty much NEVER fails to note the party of a political official in a scandal, regardless of the party they are in, including this one.
The Big block V8 line is being closed. The Tonawanda Engine plant still makes smaller engines. But there aren't positions for the V8 guys, so they are all laid off. So not as bad as I originally stated. Doesn't make it any less painful for the area though.
I was picturing a blue collar Buffalonian with a single tear running down his cheek as he lost his job.
Note that the Tonawanda Engine plant is being CLOSED, not re-tooled for new engines. Just under 200 local jobs, Gone.
Most or all of these families will have to either take much lower paying local work (Assuming they can find it. The recession of 1992 never really ended here. Local unemployment is about 5% higher here than the national average and has been for YEARS.) or they will have to move, further exacerbating the population drain that Western New York has been experiencing for decades.
So yeah, all you enviro-hippy/.ers go ahead and cheer that the V8 is dead. But just temper your enthusiasm a bit by remembering the people who don't have jobs now.
Just goes to show you that the misunderstanding of technology is pretty much ubiquitous outside the tech community.
Although FNC gets points for at least being slightly lower on the hyperbole scale, and somewhat more accurate in their story title than pretty much everywhere else I've seen this story.
Well, IANAS, but my understanding is that the Earth was simply too young at that point to be anything other than a mostly molten ball of semi-liquid rock with a thin crust, as was the other planet. This is why Earth was able to re-form into a nice sphere again rather than a lopsided, cracked mess like Mimas did.
But, in the strict sense you are correct in that they can't KNOW in that we weren't around then and we haven't yet invented Time Travel. But as a theory it certainly makes sense.
Is not the theory that "life arrived here via Amino acids carried aboard asteroids" the current leader among the scientific community? Is that not "panspermia"? Or am I getting my terminology confused?
I was under the impression that the Earth was still in the early stages of cooling when struck by that other planet, and was still a highly "magmatic" planet at that point, and thus incapable of sustaining life yet.
Assuming the theory of "panspermia" is a reasonably close to accurate description of how life arrived on earth (Amino acids and water carried inside asteroids brought life to Earth) and knowing that the Moon has acted as an Asteroid barrier for BILLIONS of years, is it all that surprising that we would ALSO find "organic signatures" on the moon?
Indeed, one would almost EXPECT to find them there.
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Maybe me meant: "Like patting a whore with a screen."?
Pretty sure that's NOT in the Bible.
It is in the Koran though.
Except that it only works on the iSnob and the Andreck phones. Don't have one of those, you can't use it.
Google needs to stop releasing Alpha products.
I have it on my gmail.
Yes, you can turn it off. Just go to Settings -> Labels -> Buzz : Show | Hide and select hide. Bye bye Buzz.
I've kind of poked at it with a stick since Facebook's Fuckup with the new new (new?) UI changes.
Buzz feels a bit... unfinished to me. It's just one box to put status updates in, and not much else. The average Facebook user is going to find it wanting, even if they hate the new Facebook UI.
But it's a start. And if it's one thing Google has, it's time and money to burn. Facebook better watch out.
Argh, AA batteries, not AAA. Please excuse my typos.
Well, Since NImH AAA batteries run at the same output as Alkaline AAA batteries, there is nothing to say you could NOT run them on Duracells.
You just can't plug the thing in with the Alkalines installed.
Just don't take it any faster than 85 miles an hour.
Unless you want to visit the '80's, the '50's, or the old west.
WebOS phones (Pre, Pre +, Pixi, Pixi +) are designed around multitasking.
My Sprint Pre can run around 10 apps simultaneously without batting an eye. It starts to slow as I hit the 11th app and maxes out at around 13 apps.
The new Pre Plus (Verizon) has more RAM and can handle about 50 apps max, around 30 - 40 smoothly.
Android has limited multitasking that isn't terribly intuitive to use, and even the iPhone3Gs can only multitask with Apple apps.
Personally I just don't get the sudden obsession among /. readers with the Android. It's really not THAT good of a phone OS. It's doesn't have full multitasking, there are MASSIVE versioning problems with it (HOW many different iterations of the OS are out there now? 10? MORE?) and it's generally difficult to develop for. About the only things it has going for it are that it has been put into some nice handsets, and it's semi-open source.
WebOS is head and shoulders better than Android. It multitasks better, has more core features, is easier to develop for, and is smoother and easier to use, even on the 1.0 handsets with less RAM.
Yet all I hear on /. is "iPhone, Android, iPhone, Android" ALL FRACKING DAY LONG. It's like WebOS isn't even on your radar, despite being better in almost every conceivable way to BOTH the Android OS and the iPhone OS.
I just don't get it.
I'm beginning to think that Afghanistan is the real world embodiment of "The Vizzini Principle":
Vizinni: You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia"...
Perhaps he meant the more British definition of Asia, which would include Afghanistan. it would certainly make sense.
You obviously don't live where it snows regularly.
In the midwest winds can really get moving. (flat terrain, open spaces with minimal tree cover) and when it snows, it snows sideways and it can be very "sticky" (lightly frozen) snow. Thus you get situations where you have a traffic light that looks like someone took a flocking gun to it. All white on one side, clear on the other. All the slopey lenses and bottomless covers in the world won't help that. Also, those are already in use anyway and they aren't helping.
It should be noted that this also illustrates the law of unintended consequences very well. All this "green" tech is fine and dandy, until some adverse weather shows up. Then you're wishing you still had that SUV, or proper stoplight bulbs, or whatever it was that you gave up to save 2 cents with "green" tech.
In the end it would probably be cheaper to just stick with the "old style" incandescent traffic lights that don't need fancy "snow melters" or snow crews to clear them.
If the city is paying too much in power bills, rather than swapping to LED stoplights, maybe they should consider allowing a power company to build a power plant of some kind nearby. The solution to high energy costs is not always conservation, often it's to create a larger supply.
So... Offering a link to an opposing point of view (that apparently is at odds with your own, judging by the tenor of your response) is now equal to not being able to stomach opposing points of view?
WTF???
Thank You coldmist.
While I doubt we agree on everything, we can agree on this one point: I don't go to movies to be preached at.
Particularly by some hollywood enviro-nitwit hypocrite. If I want to be preached at, I'll go watch a Michael Moore movie. Otherwise I just want to be entertained with a good story, hold the politics.
And to truetorment; I can't stomach STUPID. Thus my sig.
I personally prefer the Avatar review by the inimitable Dr. Zero: The Suicide Fantasy
I would summarize his article, but frankly I could never do it justice. Click through and read. It's fantastic.
It isn't ad-hominem if it's true.
However, your point is correct. Fox did make a mistake with the party affiliation in the highlighted instance. They also corrected the mistake in the next broadcast and several times over the following day.
Hardly a case for "lying" and "repeatedly representing Republicans as Democrats". Indeed, the few mistakes Fox has made, have been called out by it's OWN people often before anyone else has had a chance to digest it.
Unlike, say, most of the rest of the media, who are SO bad at it that sites like NewsBusters have made a regular topic out of it: Name That Party.
I don't claim that Fox News is perfect. FAR FROM IT. But at the same time, to try and use a massively biased leftwing troll site to provide "evidence" of some "vast Republican Conspiracy" in collusion with Fox news is just nuts.
Also, I realize that we all tend to see the world through the lens of ourselves. Being bias-free is nigh-on impossible. But where there are serial examples of obvious bias bordering on gross journalistic malfeasance it's appropriate to call it out.
I apologize if I came across a bit rudely, it's been a rough week at work. (and it's only Tuesday. Ugh.)
Media Matters?
Seriously? The George Soros funded Leftist political apparatchik site? You expect ANYONE to take you seriously when you quote THEM?
Buwaaaa haa haa ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa.... *whew*! now THAT was funny!
Methinks you posted in the wrong submission thread.
And OF COURSE, /. forgets to add "D-Fla" to the Reps name.
Anyone think, even for a second, if Grayson was "R-Fla" that it would have been missed?
Yeah, didn't think so.
This is what conservatives and libertarians mean when we are talking about "liberal bias" in the media. Those soft, subtle things used to quietly tweak the story to emphasize or de-emphasize precisely the point of view the writer wants his or her readers to end up with after reading the story.
Interestingly, TFA is from Fox News, which pretty much NEVER fails to note the party of a political official in a scandal, regardless of the party they are in, including this one.
Nice omission there /.
Correction:
The Big block V8 line is being closed. The Tonawanda Engine plant still makes smaller engines. But there aren't positions for the V8 guys, so they are all laid off. So not as bad as I originally stated. Doesn't make it any less painful for the area though.
Apologies for any confusion.
That's interesting...
I was picturing a blue collar Buffalonian with a single tear running down his cheek as he lost his job.
Note that the Tonawanda Engine plant is being CLOSED, not re-tooled for new engines. Just under 200 local jobs, Gone.
Most or all of these families will have to either take much lower paying local work (Assuming they can find it. The recession of 1992 never really ended here. Local unemployment is about 5% higher here than the national average and has been for YEARS.) or they will have to move, further exacerbating the population drain that Western New York has been experiencing for decades.
So yeah, all you enviro-hippy /.ers go ahead and cheer that the V8 is dead. But just temper your enthusiasm a bit by remembering the people who don't have jobs now.
Flame Broiled Nothin'!
I'll take some lean, thin-sliced Roast Beef over a Burger ANY DAY.
Arby's all the way baby!
Crap. Now I'm hungry again.
Just goes to show you that the misunderstanding of technology is pretty much ubiquitous outside the tech community.
Although FNC gets points for at least being slightly lower on the hyperbole scale, and somewhat more accurate in their story title than pretty much everywhere else I've seen this story.
Well, IANAS, but my understanding is that the Earth was simply too young at that point to be anything other than a mostly molten ball of semi-liquid rock with a thin crust, as was the other planet. This is why Earth was able to re-form into a nice sphere again rather than a lopsided, cracked mess like Mimas did.
But, in the strict sense you are correct in that they can't KNOW in that we weren't around then and we haven't yet invented Time Travel. But as a theory it certainly makes sense.
Is not the theory that "life arrived here via Amino acids carried aboard asteroids" the current leader among the scientific community? Is that not "panspermia"? Or am I getting my terminology confused?
I was under the impression that the Earth was still in the early stages of cooling when struck by that other planet, and was still a highly "magmatic" planet at that point, and thus incapable of sustaining life yet.
Assuming the theory of "panspermia" is a reasonably close to accurate description of how life arrived on earth (Amino acids and water carried inside asteroids brought life to Earth) and knowing that the Moon has acted as an Asteroid barrier for BILLIONS of years, is it all that surprising that we would ALSO find "organic signatures" on the moon?
Indeed, one would almost EXPECT to find them there.