The first link says that Mozilla plans to continue supporting Firefox on XP; it gives no end date, so they presumably mean indefinitely (though practically probably not much longer than a few years--for example, they supported Windows 2000 until Firefox 12 in April 2012, a bit over 2 years after its EOL; on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if they went a bit longer with XP given its larger user base). The second link says Google plans to continue Chrome support on XP into at least 2015. Neither one of these links talks about Firefox or Chrome ending support for Windows XP. In fact, both mention the exact opposite, at least for the foreseeable future, so I'm really wondering where the author of this summary got this information.
It won't for me, not because it can't, but because Comcast is granted a regional monopoly by the local government.
Mediacom (consistently ranked poorly in customer satisfaction) has the same here, but surely you have other Internet options. I use DSL from CenturyLink. (Yes, I know, connection speeds. But that doesn't matter when the other doesn't work, and in practice, they aren't that different.)
And Apple. [...] If you're going to give credit to one, please do be fair and give credit to the other.
They did, and it's in the summary. You didn't even have to read TFA. Additionally, the headline narrows this down to Android OEMs, so that's why Apple was excluded from the discussion until the very end.
The article notes that Apple doesn't do any of the frequency gaming stuff.
For the most part, this involves people driving a car on a public street. That is not a private act (despite what, e.g., speed camera opponents apparently want you to think). I don't see the problem, especially if drive in actual cities with real blocks, where this doesn't work as well, anyway (not that you need to drive, but I digress).
That only affects parallax in the home screen and very few other types of "motion" in the UI. It does nothing to stop the "zoom" effects that happen when you wake the device start an app, or do anything that was fine in iOS 6 but annoying now even if you don't have this medical condition because it makes you wait a second all over the place for the stupid animation to complete.
I assume he/she meant Tiger. Pretty easy to get your cats confused--I can barely even remember what the current version is called except by version number.
You'll be glad to know that bullshit is still going on.
I bought Parallels, upgraded to Mountain Lion, and the damn thing stopped working. I have to buy the next version to get it to work in Mountain Lion.
That's not quite the same as buying a version that doesn't work on current hardware and software when the vendor appeared to claim that it should have.
Science might progress faster and cost less if it wasn't conducted by people clueless about their bodies. Everything they discovered is already known by anybody with beat-boxing and linguistic skills. Bring back the introspectionists I say, cheaper than MRI!
Actually, people's impressions about what they're doing with their bodies (in terms of speech production) is often not actually what is physiologically happening. Other times, it's very difficult--if not impossible--for the subject to tell what is happening, much less describe it accurately. That's why it's useful to use MRI or other techniques like they did in this study. (Trust me, I'm a linguist?)
Geometric mean is useful for comparing when the expected range or units of values is different. For example, startup time is measured in seconds, but BrowsingBench numbers are things like the unitless 6646. The arithmetic mean would fail to "normalize" these values and give disproportionate weight to some over others; the geometric mean is one way of trying to account for this.
The ToS of any residential service I've ever heard of expressly prohibits "servers".
Then you haven't heard of them all. Qwest (now Century Link, but I think the old Qwest territory is still under slightly different terms) allows servers according to their agreement (and my conversation with customer service in which I had to get a port unblocked--they're my ISP): "Service may be used to host a server, personal or commercial, as lon gas such server is used pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement applicalbe to Service and not for any malicious purposes...".
Of course, elsewhere in the agreement, it says that you need business service if you're using it for commercial purposes--but there's nothing stopping me from running small Web and mail services on my residential account for my personal use. Of course, I wouldn't really want to do much else on a typical, constrained upload-bandwidth residential ADSL account, either...
The service runs in the background and launches iTunes when the phone is plugged in. It's quite handy.
That's your opinion. I always found it to be incredibly annoying, as it launches that shitty app every time you plug it in. You can't charge your Ipad without firing off ITunes. Yet another example of Apple's holier than thou concept of design: "We know better than you do, about how you want to use our products."
Have you considered, oh, I don't know, unchecking the box that says "Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected"?
So, was it really Google Chrome, or was Linux to blame
Wasn't it both? They're both a component in the same vector.
If only there was "article" you could read that might tell you. From TFA: The same researcher that took Google's money last year for exploiting Chrome, known publicly only as 'PinkiePie' was awarded $40,000 for exploiting Chrome/Chrome OS via a Linux kernel bug, config file error and a video parsing flaw. So, it sounds like Linux. Google fixed this by patching Chrome OS, not Chrome per se.
What's consuming the rest of your time? I bet you have an hour or so to spend at the gym before or after work if you really want to. Or could you do it during your lunch break? Also, you'll want to change what you eat--the Mountain Dew isn't going to help you. (Not bragging, but I'm a full-time graduate student with two part-time jobs and still manage to work out for about an hour a day--and I still have time to make my own dinner, which lots of people also insist they don't have time for. You might try that, too. In fact, I grow (most of) my own dinner in the summer, too. On the other hand, I don't have kids or anything that might require more time at home.)
If you still insist that you don't have time to work out, do it on the way to work: ride a bike instead of driving (or taking the bus/train/etc.). Maybe add in an extra ride over lunch. Lots of people, myself included, do this where I work. Even better, do it for all your errands and you'll save on gas, too.
You'll have to put in some effort, and the chances of you being able to do that at a sedentary job aren't that great. But it's worth it. You'll feel better in the long run.
False. That's why the post you quoted mentioned that it was a faulty assertion and specifically mentioned city streets vs. state or interstate highways. For the former, which cyclists are for more likely to use, most funding comes from municipal revenue. This is something every citizen pays. The gas tax is more important on the latter two, but cyclists aren't even allowed on interstates.
Well they are giving everyone a leg up by including a PDF view. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Well, it's rendered as HTML5 with some help from JavaScript. Speaking of JavaScript, however, my quick testing suggests that PDFs with JS code are not well supported; they show a yellow bar at the top suggesting you open with another reader.
This, coupled with the fact that it's written using rendering tools Mozilla has already had, suggests that it should be about as secure as their browser in general. More if you exclude Flash and Java.
I am not stupid and know how to disable it for web browsing, but many apps use older java versions.
First, I'm not sure why Slashdot chose to run this article as opposed to any of dozens of others that actually explain the situation better, not that it matters because nobody reads them. Apple is not blocking Java applications. They are blocking only the plug-in. Further, from what I've read, they were not blocking Java 6, only insecure (well, more insecure) versions of Java 7 applets. Additionally, you can get around this with just about any Web browser besides Safari. Finally, at the moment, at least, the latest version of the plug-in is once again perfectly capable of running.
(Besides the lack of true push support, of course, but Google's app does support it--or at least I assume it does. I've never found a compelling reason get push notifications for e-mail on a mobile device, personally.)
So right now the was I've been setting up iOS devices was by setting up an Exchange server pointing to m.google.com so that everything would work well. What's the best way now if they're discontinuing that?
"Art thou not aware of thine own future? Art thou so evil, one cannot trust thee anymore? Woe is I. Woe is I..."
FTFY. The verb "to be" is a linking verb, and as such does not take an object.
Nonsense. It's not an object; if you compare it to analogous phrases in other languages (e.g., German "Weh (ist) mir"), you'll find that the "me" is dative. English doesn't have a clear accusative-dative distinction anymore (although we still generally call English objects accusative), but the OED confirms this history, and it certainly makes more sense in the typical dative sense of "woe is (un)to me" rather than your "I am woe." In any case, it doesn't really matter anymore--the syntax is odd in Modern English and it's just a fixed phrase that seems to have slipped through history without much change.
You mean to tell me that this account with no other posts, who has nothing bad to say about using an as-yet-unreleased product...
It is released, at least in the preview sense. I'm using it now (you can sign in with any Microsoft account, like an MSN or Passport one of old, in addition to the new outlook.com ones). Won't switch, but might make a new account for a junk address if I can get POP/SMTP access to it.
Anymore and nowadays. Special thanks to Philadelphia (origin of "This car needs cleaned") for slowly spreading the virus of using "anymore" when "nowadays" should be used. It's taking over the country. Ten yrs, you'd never hear a headline like this. It should be "Does grammar even matter nowadays?"
Complete nonsense. The interrogative usage appears to be standard based on its OED entry (1a). What you're thinking of is the fact that "anymore" is generally considered a negative polarity item, which requires an interrogative or negative context to license its use (example: "Clothes are expensive anymore," meaning "...nowadays," acceptable only in certain dialects; compare with "I can't afford clothes anymore," a negative context which should be fine for everyone--except, of course, nutty prescriptivists who recite "rules" that are completely baseless and which they themselves often don't understand).
Even in the regional or colloquial, non-NPI context there's nothing "wrong" about it--in fact, it appears to be standard in Irish English. For what it's worth, the OED dates this usage back to at least the 1800s--certainly not within the last decade, and not originating in Philadelphia. But most importantly, what is part of the "standard" variety is completely arbitrary (and perhaps even somewhat abstract). There is nothing inherently wrong with the use of "anymore" to mean "nowadays," even if you don't accept it as part of the "standard" variety.
Tell me, what can you do with a clean conscience? Can you eat meat you buy from the store? Or even produce for that matter? Can you flip on the light switch in your home and consume electricity? Start your car? Wax philosophical all you want, but life is inherently unfair...
Actually, when I go to the store, I can buy produce (or meat) from local farmers--or I can go to the farmers market, subscribe to a CSA, grow it myself, or use any of various alternatives that will allow me to know more about the product. At the very least, I can buy according to some legislated standards (e.g., USDA Organic) that I am OK with. Similarly, instead of starting my car (which I definitely do NOT do with a clean conscience), I can walk or bike. I can use renewable energy instead of coal for the lights, and I can use LEDs or other efficient illuminators.
I think you have a point, but I think tech is different because, short of not buying it at all, you don't really have these alternatives--at least according to this article.
You can get LEDs in any color balance you want now, including very warm color balances.
Not to mention, they aren't that expensive (especially for downlight replacements) and their price is falling fast. I haven't been able to find many ESL bulbs, but a quick search online reveals that they aren't exactly competitively priced compared to LEDs, and their wattage seems to be a bit more than CFLs for the same amount of light (and both are more than LEDs).
Additionally, LEDs, if they last long enough, will cost less money in the long run. I've affordably replaced most of the bulbs in my house and have no regrets. For some niche applications, other bulbs may still be necessary, and hopefully LEDs will become more appealing to the average person within the next few years in terms of price, directionality, and so on.
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The first link says that Mozilla plans to continue supporting Firefox on XP; it gives no end date, so they presumably mean indefinitely (though practically probably not much longer than a few years--for example, they supported Windows 2000 until Firefox 12 in April 2012, a bit over 2 years after its EOL; on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if they went a bit longer with XP given its larger user base). The second link says Google plans to continue Chrome support on XP into at least 2015. Neither one of these links talks about Firefox or Chrome ending support for Windows XP. In fact, both mention the exact opposite, at least for the foreseeable future, so I'm really wondering where the author of this summary got this information.
It won't for me, not because it can't, but because Comcast is granted a regional monopoly by the local government.
Mediacom (consistently ranked poorly in customer satisfaction) has the same here, but surely you have other Internet options. I use DSL from CenturyLink. (Yes, I know, connection speeds. But that doesn't matter when the other doesn't work, and in practice, they aren't that different.)
With the exception of Motorola...
And Apple. [...] If you're going to give credit to one, please do be fair and give credit to the other.
They did, and it's in the summary. You didn't even have to read TFA. Additionally, the headline narrows this down to Android OEMs, so that's why Apple was excluded from the discussion until the very end.
The article notes that Apple doesn't do any of the frequency gaming stuff.
For the most part, this involves people driving a car on a public street. That is not a private act (despite what, e.g., speed camera opponents apparently want you to think). I don't see the problem, especially if drive in actual cities with real blocks, where this doesn't work as well, anyway (not that you need to drive, but I digress).
That only affects parallax in the home screen and very few other types of "motion" in the UI. It does nothing to stop the "zoom" effects that happen when you wake the device start an app, or do anything that was fine in iOS 6 but annoying now even if you don't have this medical condition because it makes you wait a second all over the place for the stupid animation to complete.
I assume he/she meant Tiger. Pretty easy to get your cats confused--I can barely even remember what the current version is called except by version number.
You'll be glad to know that bullshit is still going on.
I bought Parallels, upgraded to Mountain Lion, and the damn thing stopped working. I have to buy the next version to get it to work in Mountain Lion.
That's not quite the same as buying a version that doesn't work on current hardware and software when the vendor appeared to claim that it should have.
Science might progress faster and cost less if it wasn't conducted by people clueless about their bodies. Everything they discovered is already known by anybody with beat-boxing and linguistic skills. Bring back the introspectionists I say, cheaper than MRI!
Actually, people's impressions about what they're doing with their bodies (in terms of speech production) is often not actually what is physiologically happening. Other times, it's very difficult--if not impossible--for the subject to tell what is happening, much less describe it accurately. That's why it's useful to use MRI or other techniques like they did in this study. (Trust me, I'm a linguist?)
Geometric mean is useful for comparing when the expected range or units of values is different. For example, startup time is measured in seconds, but BrowsingBench numbers are things like the unitless 6646. The arithmetic mean would fail to "normalize" these values and give disproportionate weight to some over others; the geometric mean is one way of trying to account for this.
The ToS of any residential service I've ever heard of expressly prohibits "servers".
Then you haven't heard of them all. Qwest (now Century Link, but I think the old Qwest territory is still under slightly different terms) allows servers according to their agreement (and my conversation with customer service in which I had to get a port unblocked--they're my ISP): "Service may be used to host a server, personal or commercial, as lon gas such server is used pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement applicalbe to Service and not for any malicious purposes...".
Of course, elsewhere in the agreement, it says that you need business service if you're using it for commercial purposes--but there's nothing stopping me from running small Web and mail services on my residential account for my personal use. Of course, I wouldn't really want to do much else on a typical, constrained upload-bandwidth residential ADSL account, either...
The service runs in the background and launches iTunes when the phone is plugged in. It's quite handy.
That's your opinion. I always found it to be incredibly annoying, as it launches that shitty app every time you plug it in. You can't charge your Ipad without firing off ITunes. Yet another example of Apple's holier than thou concept of design: "We know better than you do, about how you want to use our products."
Have you considered, oh, I don't know, unchecking the box that says "Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected"?
Wasn't it both? They're both a component in the same vector.
If only there was "article" you could read that might tell you. From TFA: The same researcher that took Google's money last year for exploiting Chrome, known publicly only as 'PinkiePie' was awarded $40,000 for exploiting Chrome/Chrome OS via a Linux kernel bug, config file error and a video parsing flaw. So, it sounds like Linux. Google fixed this by patching Chrome OS, not Chrome per se.
What's consuming the rest of your time? I bet you have an hour or so to spend at the gym before or after work if you really want to. Or could you do it during your lunch break? Also, you'll want to change what you eat--the Mountain Dew isn't going to help you. (Not bragging, but I'm a full-time graduate student with two part-time jobs and still manage to work out for about an hour a day--and I still have time to make my own dinner, which lots of people also insist they don't have time for. You might try that, too. In fact, I grow (most of) my own dinner in the summer, too. On the other hand, I don't have kids or anything that might require more time at home.)
If you still insist that you don't have time to work out, do it on the way to work: ride a bike instead of driving (or taking the bus/train/etc.). Maybe add in an extra ride over lunch. Lots of people, myself included, do this where I work. Even better, do it for all your errands and you'll save on gas, too.
You'll have to put in some effort, and the chances of you being able to do that at a sedentary job aren't that great. But it's worth it. You'll feel better in the long run.
Roads are usually paid for with a gasoline tax.
False. That's why the post you quoted mentioned that it was a faulty assertion and specifically mentioned city streets vs. state or interstate highways. For the former, which cyclists are for more likely to use, most funding comes from municipal revenue. This is something every citizen pays. The gas tax is more important on the latter two, but cyclists aren't even allowed on interstates.
For a discussion on this issue with data from Seattle and the state of Washington (where this rep is from), see, for example: http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/we-all-pay-for-the-roads.
Well they are giving everyone a leg up by including a PDF view. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Well, it's rendered as HTML5 with some help from JavaScript. Speaking of JavaScript, however, my quick testing suggests that PDFs with JS code are not well supported; they show a yellow bar at the top suggesting you open with another reader.
This, coupled with the fact that it's written using rendering tools Mozilla has already had, suggests that it should be about as secure as their browser in general. More if you exclude Flash and Java.
I am not stupid and know how to disable it for web browsing, but many apps use older java versions.
First, I'm not sure why Slashdot chose to run this article as opposed to any of dozens of others that actually explain the situation better, not that it matters because nobody reads them. Apple is not blocking Java applications. They are blocking only the plug-in. Further, from what I've read, they were not blocking Java 6, only insecure (well, more insecure) versions of Java 7 applets. Additionally, you can get around this with just about any Web browser besides Safari. Finally, at the moment, at least, the latest version of the plug-in is once again perfectly capable of running.
For competent reporting on this subject, see, among others, the MacRumors article about the most recent block.
(Besides the lack of true push support, of course, but Google's app does support it--or at least I assume it does. I've never found a compelling reason get push notifications for e-mail on a mobile device, personally.)
So right now the was I've been setting up iOS devices was by setting up an Exchange server pointing to m.google.com so that everything would work well. What's the best way now if they're discontinuing that?
Is there a problem with IMAP?
No big deal, they're just doing some Verizon math.
"Art thou not aware of thine own future? Art thou so evil, one cannot trust thee anymore? Woe is I. Woe is I..."
FTFY. The verb "to be" is a linking verb, and as such does not take an object.
Nonsense. It's not an object; if you compare it to analogous phrases in other languages (e.g., German "Weh (ist) mir"), you'll find that the "me" is dative. English doesn't have a clear accusative-dative distinction anymore (although we still generally call English objects accusative), but the OED confirms this history, and it certainly makes more sense in the typical dative sense of "woe is (un)to me" rather than your "I am woe." In any case, it doesn't really matter anymore--the syntax is odd in Modern English and it's just a fixed phrase that seems to have slipped through history without much change.
You mean to tell me that this account with no other posts, who has nothing bad to say about using an as-yet-unreleased product...
It is released, at least in the preview sense. I'm using it now (you can sign in with any Microsoft account, like an MSN or Passport one of old, in addition to the new outlook.com ones). Won't switch, but might make a new account for a junk address if I can get POP/SMTP access to it.
Anymore and nowadays. Special thanks to Philadelphia (origin of "This car needs cleaned") for slowly spreading the virus of using "anymore" when "nowadays" should be used. It's taking over the country. Ten yrs, you'd never hear a headline like this. It should be "Does grammar even matter nowadays?"
Complete nonsense. The interrogative usage appears to be standard based on its OED entry (1a). What you're thinking of is the fact that "anymore" is generally considered a negative polarity item, which requires an interrogative or negative context to license its use (example: "Clothes are expensive anymore," meaning "...nowadays," acceptable only in certain dialects; compare with "I can't afford clothes anymore," a negative context which should be fine for everyone--except, of course, nutty prescriptivists who recite "rules" that are completely baseless and which they themselves often don't understand).
Even in the regional or colloquial, non-NPI context there's nothing "wrong" about it--in fact, it appears to be standard in Irish English. For what it's worth, the OED dates this usage back to at least the 1800s--certainly not within the last decade, and not originating in Philadelphia. But most importantly, what is part of the "standard" variety is completely arbitrary (and perhaps even somewhat abstract). There is nothing inherently wrong with the use of "anymore" to mean "nowadays," even if you don't accept it as part of the "standard" variety.
Tell me, what can you do with a clean conscience? Can you eat meat you buy from the store? Or even produce for that matter? Can you flip on the light switch in your home and consume electricity? Start your car? Wax philosophical all you want, but life is inherently unfair...
Actually, when I go to the store, I can buy produce (or meat) from local farmers--or I can go to the farmers market, subscribe to a CSA, grow it myself, or use any of various alternatives that will allow me to know more about the product. At the very least, I can buy according to some legislated standards (e.g., USDA Organic) that I am OK with. Similarly, instead of starting my car (which I definitely do NOT do with a clean conscience), I can walk or bike. I can use renewable energy instead of coal for the lights, and I can use LEDs or other efficient illuminators.
I think you have a point, but I think tech is different because, short of not buying it at all, you don't really have these alternatives--at least according to this article.
Any bets on whether a "guy around me" app would have raised any inkling of similar outcry?
Actually, despite the name, the app could show either males or females. (Yeah, I know, it's not cool to RTFA.)
You can get LEDs in any color balance you want now, including very warm color balances.
Not to mention, they aren't that expensive (especially for downlight replacements) and their price is falling fast. I haven't been able to find many ESL bulbs, but a quick search online reveals that they aren't exactly competitively priced compared to LEDs, and their wattage seems to be a bit more than CFLs for the same amount of light (and both are more than LEDs).
Additionally, LEDs, if they last long enough, will cost less money in the long run. I've affordably replaced most of the bulbs in my house and have no regrets. For some niche applications, other bulbs may still be necessary, and hopefully LEDs will become more appealing to the average person within the next few years in terms of price, directionality, and so on.