Since a few years ago, all vehicles were classified as either "red", "yellow" or "green", according to their emissions. Nowadays, if you want to go into a city, you have to have a sticker on your wind shield, and on the city limits there are signs telling you which classes are allowed.
At start, all vehicle classes were allowed, but the plan is to gradually restrict it until only green vehicles are allowed into the city limits (most cities are currently at yellow).
I suspect that when the time comes, the same system will be used to promote the use of zero-emission vehicles.
I just had that issue, you can modify/usr/share/empathy/empathy-chat-window.ui and change the line that says: <accelerator key="W" modifiers="GDK_CONTROL_MASK"/>
to
<accelerator key="Escape"/>
and ask for forgiveness to the gods that decided that would be a sin, cheers
I had to cancel my trip to Chile after the earthquake hit there last year (my flight was just a few days after the quake), and I felt the same way.
On the one hand I was completely pissed off at the missed opportunity, but on the other hand, how can you really complain about your ruined vacations when people there are losing everything up to and including their lives?
On the positive side, I had a friend who visited Madeira about three months after the floods hit, and they said that they could barely see any damage at all.
My feeling is that if you stay away from the most affected areas, you probably won't even notice what's happened there.
Flash on Android is completely optional. That is, you can choose not to install it, or even if it's installed, you can choose not to have it start automatically -- you get a placeholder which you can click in order to start it.
I also hate flash, in the Desktop (Linux) and more so on my Android device. I usually keep it installed on Android because occasionally I run into a flash video which I want to see without having to start up my pc. It's a bit shit, but it works okay for videos, and it's pretty convenient.
People don't read error messages. Some people don't even turn their brains on long enough to look at their screen before lashing out at the developer.
I have a published Android app where you could open the menu and select an option to go to a certain activity. After a few months I moved that functionality to a large icon on the top of the app to make the process easier -- no menu, simply tap the large button on top. I got at least two emails asking where that functionality went.
Another guy wrote telling me that I had a bad bug in my date code -- apparently the month of February was only showing 28 days in my app. I lost two days off my life right there. (BTW, he was from a country which uses the Gregorian calendar).
It's true that most people are smarter than that, but the idiots are usually much more vocal.
That sounds like a support nightmare waiting to happen.
People would block anything and everything and then complain when the apps wouldn't work.
I remember a few years ago when those personal firewalls were all the rage. I was with a friend of mine who couldn't connect to the internet. After one hour of trying everything I could think of, I finally discovered that Windows networking had been blocked from accessing the internet. Brilliant.
I'm also worried about this, as I just got a Nexus S exactly because I wanted to get updates on time, and the way they treat Nexus One now is a good indicator of how well they'll treat the Nexus S in ~1 year (at least, I hope:-)
You said that Android is advancing too fast, and that obsolescence is going to render older devices less useful. I'm saying that up to now I haven't seen that happening, and there is no reason to believe it will happen faster on Android than on any other OS.
That makes no sense. Do you also complain that car manufacturers are advancing too fast with safer, cleaner and more efficient technology just because you can't buy a new car every year? Should innovation stop and advance at the rate of your financial capability?
I think it's great that they're constantly improving Android, even if it does make me wish my hardware were more up to date. But there's a nice solution for that -- get a Nexus device (which is what I'll do when it's time to replace my current one).
Meanwhile, don't worry -- your Android device won't become less useful over time.
The presence of fuel changes the capacitance ot something like that
I'm not exactly sure how it works.
(...) measure some kind of voltage or current going through those probes.
(...) its error checking routines may simply decide that the input is unreliable and therefore stop sending output, resulting in a zero indication on the gauges.
Everybody's discussing the safety aspect, but for me the most interesing part is that where I can join the train and then do some other activity more interesting than operating the vehicle.
We humans have this huge brain and flexible limbs. We're capable of so much, but some of us spend way too much time each day doing a job that could almost be done by a monkey.
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That.
And yes, if you have to do it, it's better to pollute away from where people live if that's at all possible.
It's how they're doing it in Germany.
Since a few years ago, all vehicles were classified as either "red", "yellow" or "green", according to their emissions.
Nowadays, if you want to go into a city, you have to have a sticker on your wind shield, and on the city limits there are signs telling you which classes are allowed.
At start, all vehicle classes were allowed, but the plan is to gradually restrict it until only green vehicles are allowed into the city limits (most cities are currently at yellow).
I suspect that when the time comes, the same system will be used to promote the use of zero-emission vehicles.
There are plenty of instructional DVDs, Youtube clips, web advice, books and CDs for learners.
And now there's a video game. What's your point?
But it's the coolest!
Oh, whoops :-)
I use nano myself.
Ctrl-x y
If you're referring to the problem with Empathy, the solution was posted in the bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/486508/comments/11
I just had that issue, you can modify /usr/share/empathy/empathy-chat-window.ui and change the line that says:
<accelerator key="W" modifiers="GDK_CONTROL_MASK"/>
to
<accelerator key="Escape" />
and ask for forgiveness to the gods that decided that would be a sin, cheers
I know how you feel.
I had to cancel my trip to Chile after the earthquake hit there last year (my flight was just a few days after the quake), and I felt the same way.
On the one hand I was completely pissed off at the missed opportunity, but on the other hand, how can you really complain about your ruined vacations when people there are losing everything up to and including their lives?
On the positive side, I had a friend who visited Madeira about three months after the floods hit, and they said that they could barely see any damage at all.
My feeling is that if you stay away from the most affected areas, you probably won't even notice what's happened there.
Of course, being an HP notebook, it fried itself.
FTFY :-)
Flash on Android is completely optional.
That is, you can choose not to install it, or even if it's installed, you can choose not to have it start automatically -- you get a placeholder which you can click in order to start it.
I also hate flash, in the Desktop (Linux) and more so on my Android device.
I usually keep it installed on Android because occasionally I run into a flash video which I want to see without having to start up my pc.
It's a bit shit, but it works okay for videos, and it's pretty convenient.
Saying you'll publish a spec doesn't make it open. Actually publishing it does.
And Apple has had plenty time to do it too.
You've obviously never done support for software.
People don't read error messages. Some people don't even turn their brains on long enough to look at their screen before lashing out at the developer.
I have a published Android app where you could open the menu and select an option to go to a certain activity. After a few months I moved that functionality to a large icon on the top of the app to make the process easier -- no menu, simply tap the large button on top.
I got at least two emails asking where that functionality went.
Another guy wrote telling me that I had a bad bug in my date code -- apparently the month of February was only showing 28 days in my app.
I lost two days off my life right there. (BTW, he was from a country which uses the Gregorian calendar).
It's true that most people are smarter than that, but the idiots are usually much more vocal.
That sounds like a support nightmare waiting to happen.
People would block anything and everything and then complain when the apps wouldn't work.
I remember a few years ago when those personal firewalls were all the rage. I was with a friend of mine who couldn't connect to the internet.
After one hour of trying everything I could think of, I finally discovered that Windows networking had been blocked from accessing the internet.
Brilliant.
Who do you trust: The phone company, the phone, or the user?
You could trust neither: get a pre-paid card, and the limit will be whatever amount you decide to load onto the card.
I guess you mean for the Nexus One?
Apparently they ran into problems, and have been fixing them. This was supposed to be done by January, but it got delayed, and rumours are that it should be out soon: http://phandroid.com/2011/02/16/nexus-one-getting-gingerbread-within-a-few-days
I'm also worried about this, as I just got a Nexus S exactly because I wanted to get updates on time, and the way they treat Nexus One now is a good indicator of how well they'll treat the Nexus S in ~1 year (at least, I hope :-)
Is your shift key broken?
I couldn't read your text, I was distracted by that. Sorry.
Yes, and it was Steve Jobs who personally found and reported the bug to Intel while testing the new MacBook model.
In fact, he's not even sick, he just needed time to concentrate on finding out why his beloved new mac model was behaving weirdly.
Look for news of his holy return tomorrow.
that train had already sailed
Trains don't sail.
It's funny, considering your whole rant on terminology :-)
I think it's exactly because Google is pushing it.
If Apple is pushing it too, then it may really catch on.
I think it's a good thing, too. I can see a lot of cool uses for this technology.
I'm more than willing to get a piece of plastic out of my wallet or on my keychain to pay for something.
Then don't use the feature.
I'm pretty sure no one will point a gun at you to make you use it.
First of all, that's not extrapolation.
Secondly, I was already suspecting you had no knowledge of what you were talking about. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism
You said that Android is advancing too fast, and that obsolescence is going to render older devices less useful.
I'm saying that up to now I haven't seen that happening, and there is no reason to believe it will happen faster on Android than on any other OS.
I meant on Android
Has that happened to you?
Do you know of any instances of that happening?
That makes no sense.
Do you also complain that car manufacturers are advancing too fast with safer, cleaner and more efficient technology just because you can't buy a new car every year?
Should innovation stop and advance at the rate of your financial capability?
I think it's great that they're constantly improving Android, even if it does make me wish my hardware were more up to date. But there's a nice solution for that -- get a Nexus device (which is what I'll do when it's time to replace my current one).
Meanwhile, don't worry -- your Android device won't become less useful over time.
The presence of fuel changes the capacitance ot something like that
I'm not exactly sure how it works.
(...) measure some kind of voltage or current going through those probes.
(...) its error checking routines may simply decide that the input is unreliable and therefore stop sending output, resulting in a zero indication on the gauges.
Or something like that
I don't know exactly what went wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism
Everybody's discussing the safety aspect, but for me the most interesing part is that where I can join the train and then do some other activity more interesting than operating the vehicle.
We humans have this huge brain and flexible limbs. We're capable of so much, but some of us spend way too much time each day doing a job that could almost be done by a monkey.