That might be so, but it doesn't change the fact that it's only Android devices where it's enabled by default.
That's probably because the carriers are not able to enable it in iOS. So Apple - the only manufacturer of iOS devices - doesn't want it enabled in their phone, and the carriers are not able to do this. Android is more open, so either the phone manufacturers like Samsung and HTC can install it, or the carriers. So it's true, but it's only true because of the open nature of Android.
One wonders what this guy had in mind as his best case scenario in this endeavor. How did he think this was going to turn out, and in what world does he get to keep the job and his freedom and the money?
He lived in the world called Hungary. Maybe he should have tried his luck at home. Considering the corruption over there, he might have had a chance to get hired because of his creative thinking, if he had chosen the right company with the right corrupt manager who would have been clever enough to recognize his talent.
I wonder if there is an equivalent of Darwin awards for IT/Geek/Nerd stuf...
Doesn't qualify. If he had extorted Osama Bin Laden (who was still alive then), like in "give me a job or I tell the CIA where you live", then he might have had a chance...
Lumix LX5, Fuji Finepix X100, Canon Powershot S95, Nikon Coolpix500 (a bit bulky)
Except for the Leica, $$$$$??? That X100 is quite as expensive: $1200, no zoom, fixed lens. I think you meant the X10, which is more like the others...
Entry-level SLRs seem to be really a class above point-and-shoots, especially that you regain control of the focus adjustment and aperture. This really is a make-or-break when taking multiple pictures of the same subject, like you often do (bits are cheap!).
What about the "superzoom" class of cameras? You can get cameras in this class with excellent lens systems (but not swappable) and with control over aperture. They just don't have manual focus.
DSLR has in general two advantages over superzoom: manual zoom, which is much faster and accurate, and a bigger sensor. A bigger sensor means that it catches more light when using the same diafragma. A bigger sensor has one disadvantage: superzoom is not possible or lenses are much bigger. Take the Sony NEX-5 with a 3x zoom - that zoom lens alone is 3x bigger than your average superzoom.
That is the first thing I thought. It is like saying of the set of people I personally know, there is at most one degree of separation between any two people.
Yeah and who do you "know"? How about the girl in the grocery shop that helped you last week? How about the classmate from kindergarten that you have in a picture, but you don't remember his name? How about that famous writer that signed his book for you standing in line at the bookshop, even shaking your hand?
I upgraded recently to v10.10 and am very pleased. It's got a bit less old libraries, and PPAs let me keep current on the apps I use.
That's fine, and 11.04 will be fine as well, if you like Unity, or if you turn it off immediately after upgrading. But 11.10 is a different story, and that is mostly because of Unity or Gnome 3. It's a bad thing that they force this onto you, and I'm stuck with 11.04 as well for the moment. I hate it because we just pushed many people in our organisation to Ubuntu, and now they may have to deal with this new interface which doesn't work. For the moment I'm keeping them off this upgrade.
One comment on this; and only because I see it repeated so often I assume most consider it fact. Flash does WAY more than video streaming, and html5 has not yet even come close to the robustness that flash offers. Smokescreen made it possible to convert the animation part to html, but not much of the actual programming.
Recently I tried to take an SVG worldmap from Wikimedia Commons and use it directly in a webpage. The resulting file was about 1.5MB big, and an average webbrowser would grind to a halt. Then I imported this vector image into Flash, and the resulting SWF with a lot more was about 40KB, had the same level of detail, and was about 1000 times faster. I have no idea how they do it, but I think that it's a great peace of work, and fun too. I wonder how that SVG would work on an iPad...
One day I had the interesting observation on the New York Subway that the recorded voices with informational statements were female, and the statements asking the passenger to do something ("Please stand clear of the door") were all male.
In Barcelona they did this 20 years ago already. A female voice said: "Proxima estacion", and a male one said: "Catalunya". I found it very entertaining then.
... [Some technologies] have no beneficial use.... [Some] tools are good for only one thing: Bad.
I'm unable to think of an example which satisfies these statements: even botnets could be co-opted for use in an enterprise environment, to help lock down corporate computers and data.
Did you have an example of a purely-evil tool you were thinking of?
Biochemical weapons. Weapons of mass destruction. Nerve gas, Agent Orange.
I was under the impression that most African countries that have the highest incidences of death by Malaria roughly correlate to the countries that also have death via famine. If that is the case, where's the food coming from for the extra 390,000 people that won't be dying every year? Will they just end up dying of starvation instead?
If a woman gives birth to a child that dies, that's a big waste of human energy. Having to give birth just three times (in a lifetime) instead of five (as an example) means more time and energy for work and earning money. Plus think of the grief of the loss of those children, that has a big impact on your life, another waste of energy, even if it's quite common in Africa.
Plus, there are not more children born, probably only less children die. There might be a spike in the first few years however.
I was under the impression that most African countries that have the highest incidences of death by Malaria roughly correlate to the countries that also have death via famine. If that is the case, where's the food coming from for the extra 390,000 people that won't be dying every year? Will they just end up dying of starvation instead?
If a woman gives birth to a child that dies, that's a big waste of human energy. Having to give birth just three times (in a lifetime) instead of five (as an example) means more time and energy for work and earning money. Plus think of the grief of the loss of those children, that has a big impact on your life, another waste of energy, even if it's quite common in Africa.
Huh? Is malaria infection a big problem with European cattle? Is there some other disease ravaging European cattle herds that could easily be prevented with a vaccine that isn't used?
I don't quite understand what point you are trying to get across. Could you clarify?
Not malaria, but diseases like Q-fever and pig plague/swine fever do have vaccins. For some reason they don't want to vaccinate, and thus they kill the complete stock. I believe using the vaccine results in not being able to get a clear picture of the disease, where is spreads, if it stops, etc.
Generally in my practical experience when you find people preaching something other than what they practice one or both of the following is true. They are profoundly lacking in self awareness and understanding of their own situation, or they preaching something that is impractical and often impossible. They may or may not admit it.
Another possible explanation for people who preach something other than what they practice is that they don't have the power to change it on their own, or they need support to create a movement. I can protest Apple using slave labour in China, and still buy Apple products. I can protest McDonalds destroying rain forest and still buy a Big Mac.
I'm not against big companies making great products. I'm against a financial market that has gone out of the roof without any regulation and without anyone - even themselves - knowing how it all works. And still I need a bank and a loan and a credit card and the whole system that is build around it. I need a consumer bank, and I need a business bank as well, not for me, but for the companies around me that support my life as it is. I suppose the gigantic economic boom we had in the past 30 years is for the most part a result of the same financial system that is now the problem, still it needs to be stopped and put down on earth in a way that is understandable and controllable.
Can't have women drooling over a geek. Even if it's only an actor playing a geek. 'tis not natural./jk
Not only a geek, but a gay geek. That means women drooling over DiCaprio, gay people as well, and even geeks might find some bits that turn them on. Now imagine a transgender homosexual geek...
1) Simple things like "copy one row to another" regularly crash OpenOffice for many users. The reaction on the forums? "Dink around with Java for a few hours, tweak some clipboard settings and pray, etc." That's not the mark of a product ready for office consumers.
OO never crashes on me, and I use it daily. I copy rows, columns, complete worksheets, slides, large chunks of text, no problem, never. So it may be that you're using Windows and I use Ubuntu and OSX, or it is something in your setup that causes this. I've used OO on Windows for a long time as well, never had problems then.
2) GoogleDocs. Where's the "share this with my colleagues and let them make updates" function in OpenOffice?
Use Dropbox, but then you have the risc of working on one document at the same time. Google offers a service, OO is a software application. What you ask is simply not in the scope of OO. They might sometime decide to cooperate with a service like Dropbox, or even with Google Docs. But consider this: Microsoft does offer a service like this, but with a price tag: Sharepoint. Do you want that?
3) Poor formatting of Microsoft Office documents. Sure, you can read incoming Microsoft Office documents, but OpenOffice has a way of uglifying them by not quite rendering or saving things in a compatible manner. (When I saved a doc from OpenOffice, I only saved as PDF, never doc - just couldn't trust it!)
It's not OO that uglifies those documents. Do you know a non-MS application that can render Word documents better than OO? I know that OO layout differs from the layout you see in Word. Have you ever exported a Word document to Word 2007 XML, and then looked at the code? Just for the fun, unzip a ODT file (change the extension.odt to.zip) and open the xml with the text content. If you compare those two, you'll see that ODF has a logical structure, and Word has a confusing structure. Microsoft is the problem here, not OO. But still, that reason alone is not enough to convince other people to change to OO.
4) UI. Who the hell came up with the color picker? Why are commonly used functions buried? Did anyone on the OpenOffice project ever sit down with someone who spends 8 hours a day cranking documents or did they just work off a list of matching features somewhere?
The color picker is awful. I still think Lotus Smartsuite ten years ago had the best layout, and I just tried Lotus Symphony, and that looks like an improvement to OO.
Compared to Office, I don't think OO is that bad. I really like the excellent PDF export with index, links that work etc. I use it a lot. I hate Impress where you cannot browse slides easily with the scroll wheel like in Powerpoint. And somehow Office feels more snappy.
I do use it, though with caution. The problem is my smartphone. I use a different browser (Dolphin on Android) for Facebook only. That is my fix for the moment, until Chrome works on Android.
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That might be so, but it doesn't change the fact that it's only Android devices where it's enabled by default.
That's probably because the carriers are not able to enable it in iOS. So Apple - the only manufacturer of iOS devices - doesn't want it enabled in their phone, and the carriers are not able to do this. Android is more open, so either the phone manufacturers like Samsung and HTC can install it, or the carriers. So it's true, but it's only true because of the open nature of Android.
One wonders what this guy had in mind as his best case scenario in this endeavor.
How did he think this was going to turn out, and in what world does he get to keep the job and his freedom and the money?
He lived in the world called Hungary. Maybe he should have tried his luck at home. Considering the corruption over there, he might have had a chance to get hired because of his creative thinking, if he had chosen the right company with the right corrupt manager who would have been clever enough to recognize his talent.
I wonder if there is an equivalent of Darwin awards for IT/Geek/Nerd stuf...
Doesn't qualify. If he had extorted Osama Bin Laden (who was still alive then), like in "give me a job or I tell the CIA where you live", then he might have had a chance...
He should've used Guru Meditation instead!
Still comes in handy for the next ten year or so.
He entered American soil, so American laws apply to him.
And now he checked into another hotel...
Lumix LX5, Fuji Finepix X100, Canon Powershot S95, Nikon Coolpix500 (a bit bulky)
Except for the Leica, $$$$$??? That X100 is quite as expensive: $1200, no zoom, fixed lens. I think you meant the X10, which is more like the others...
What about the "superzoom" class of cameras? You can get cameras in this class with excellent lens systems (but not swappable) and with control over aperture. They just don't have manual focus.
DSLR has in general two advantages over superzoom: manual zoom, which is much faster and accurate, and a bigger sensor. A bigger sensor means that it catches more light when using the same diafragma. A bigger sensor has one disadvantage: superzoom is not possible or lenses are much bigger. Take the Sony NEX-5 with a 3x zoom - that zoom lens alone is 3x bigger than your average superzoom.
That is the first thing I thought. It is like saying of the set of people I personally know, there is at most one degree of separation between any two people.
Yeah and who do you "know"? How about the girl in the grocery shop that helped you last week? How about the classmate from kindergarten that you have in a picture, but you don't remember his name? How about that famous writer that signed his book for you standing in line at the bookshop, even shaking your hand?
I upgraded recently to v10.10 and am very pleased. It's got a bit less old libraries, and PPAs let me keep current on the apps I use.
That's fine, and 11.04 will be fine as well, if you like Unity, or if you turn it off immediately after upgrading. But 11.10 is a different story, and that is mostly because of Unity or Gnome 3. It's a bad thing that they force this onto you, and I'm stuck with 11.04 as well for the moment. I hate it because we just pushed many people in our organisation to Ubuntu, and now they may have to deal with this new interface which doesn't work. For the moment I'm keeping them off this upgrade.
1. Ask around basically.
2. a guy on xdadevs whomped up an app to detect (requires root) and remove (requires root and 99 cent donation) CIQ, among other things. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559&postcount=109
"A guy"? You're talking about TrevE, the "guy" who discovered this.
One comment on this; and only because I see it repeated so often I assume most consider it fact.
Flash does WAY more than video streaming, and html5 has not yet even come close to the robustness that flash offers. Smokescreen made it possible to convert the animation part to html, but not much of the actual programming.
Recently I tried to take an SVG worldmap from Wikimedia Commons and use it directly in a webpage. The resulting file was about 1.5MB big, and an average webbrowser would grind to a halt. Then I imported this vector image into Flash, and the resulting SWF with a lot more was about 40KB, had the same level of detail, and was about 1000 times faster. I have no idea how they do it, but I think that it's a great peace of work, and fun too. I wonder how that SVG would work on an iPad...
I block everything. I have the following in my hosts file
# Block Facebook
127.127.127.127 www.facebook.com
The 127.127.127.127 points to a seperate web site so it does not disturb my other logs. You could use 0.0.0.0
Even better is to filter out all facebook.com and fbcdn.net stuff.
Use the Ghostery addon and it will do this for you. Much easier to handle.
Shit happens, at least they are up front about it when it happened to them.
And this is why I use separate and disposable gmail-address for them and most other registrations...
stupid slashdot - "estacio"
Could be. What I remember is probably from the song "Proxima estacion: Esperanza", by Manu Chao...
One day I had the interesting observation on the New York Subway that the recorded voices with informational statements were female, and the statements asking the passenger to do something ("Please stand clear of the door") were all male.
In Barcelona they did this 20 years ago already. A female voice said: "Proxima estacion", and a male one said: "Catalunya". I found it very entertaining then.
... [Some technologies] have no beneficial use. ... [Some] tools are good for only one thing: Bad.
I'm unable to think of an example which satisfies these statements: even botnets could be co-opted for use in an enterprise environment, to help lock down corporate computers and data.
Did you have an example of a purely-evil tool you were thinking of?
Biochemical weapons. Weapons of mass destruction. Nerve gas, Agent Orange.
I was under the impression that most African countries that have the highest incidences of death by Malaria roughly correlate to the countries that also have death via famine. If that is the case, where's the food coming from for the extra 390,000 people that won't be dying every year? Will they just end up dying of starvation instead?
If a woman gives birth to a child that dies, that's a big waste of human energy. Having to give birth just three times (in a lifetime) instead of five (as an example) means more time and energy for work and earning money. Plus think of the grief of the loss of those children, that has a big impact on your life, another waste of energy, even if it's quite common in Africa.
Plus, there are not more children born, probably only less children die. There might be a spike in the first few years however.
I was under the impression that most African countries that have the highest incidences of death by Malaria roughly correlate to the countries that also have death via famine. If that is the case, where's the food coming from for the extra 390,000 people that won't be dying every year? Will they just end up dying of starvation instead?
If a woman gives birth to a child that dies, that's a big waste of human energy. Having to give birth just three times (in a lifetime) instead of five (as an example) means more time and energy for work and earning money. Plus think of the grief of the loss of those children, that has a big impact on your life, another waste of energy, even if it's quite common in Africa.
Huh? Is malaria infection a big problem with European cattle? Is there some other disease ravaging European cattle herds that could easily be prevented with a vaccine that isn't used?
I don't quite understand what point you are trying to get across. Could you clarify?
Not malaria, but diseases like Q-fever and pig plague/swine fever do have vaccins. For some reason they don't want to vaccinate, and thus they kill the complete stock. I believe using the vaccine results in not being able to get a clear picture of the disease, where is spreads, if it stops, etc.
I think I would spend the next 165 years practising addition
So how old are you exactly? -15 or something?
Generally in my practical experience when you find people preaching something other than what they practice one or both of the following is true. They are profoundly lacking in self awareness and understanding of their own situation, or they preaching something that is impractical and often impossible. They may or may not admit it.
Another possible explanation for people who preach something other than what they practice is that they don't have the power to change it on their own, or they need support to create a movement. I can protest Apple using slave labour in China, and still buy Apple products. I can protest McDonalds destroying rain forest and still buy a Big Mac.
I'm not against big companies making great products. I'm against a financial market that has gone out of the roof without any regulation and without anyone - even themselves - knowing how it all works. And still I need a bank and a loan and a credit card and the whole system that is build around it. I need a consumer bank, and I need a business bank as well, not for me, but for the companies around me that support my life as it is. I suppose the gigantic economic boom we had in the past 30 years is for the most part a result of the same financial system that is now the problem, still it needs to be stopped and put down on earth in a way that is understandable and controllable.
Can't have women drooling over a geek. Even if it's only an actor playing a geek. 'tis not natural. /jk
Not only a geek, but a gay geek. That means women drooling over DiCaprio, gay people as well, and even geeks might find some bits that turn them on. Now imagine a transgender homosexual geek...
1) Simple things like "copy one row to another" regularly crash OpenOffice for many users. The reaction on the forums? "Dink around with Java for a few hours, tweak some clipboard settings and pray, etc." That's not the mark of a product ready for office consumers.
OO never crashes on me, and I use it daily. I copy rows, columns, complete worksheets, slides, large chunks of text, no problem, never. So it may be that you're using Windows and I use Ubuntu and OSX, or it is something in your setup that causes this. I've used OO on Windows for a long time as well, never had problems then.
2) GoogleDocs. Where's the "share this with my colleagues and let them make updates" function in OpenOffice?
Use Dropbox, but then you have the risc of working on one document at the same time. Google offers a service, OO is a software application. What you ask is simply not in the scope of OO. They might sometime decide to cooperate with a service like Dropbox, or even with Google Docs. But consider this: Microsoft does offer a service like this, but with a price tag: Sharepoint. Do you want that?
3) Poor formatting of Microsoft Office documents. Sure, you can read incoming Microsoft Office documents, but OpenOffice has a way of uglifying them by not quite rendering or saving things in a compatible manner. (When I saved a doc from OpenOffice, I only saved as PDF, never doc - just couldn't trust it!)
It's not OO that uglifies those documents. Do you know a non-MS application that can render Word documents better than OO? I know that OO layout differs from the layout you see in Word. Have you ever exported a Word document to Word 2007 XML, and then looked at the code? Just for the fun, unzip a ODT file (change the extension .odt to .zip) and open the xml with the text content. If you compare those two, you'll see that ODF has a logical structure, and Word has a confusing structure. Microsoft is the problem here, not OO. But still, that reason alone is not enough to convince other people to change to OO.
4) UI. Who the hell came up with the color picker? Why are commonly used functions buried? Did anyone on the OpenOffice project ever sit down with someone who spends 8 hours a day cranking documents or did they just work off a list of matching features somewhere?
The color picker is awful. I still think Lotus Smartsuite ten years ago had the best layout, and I just tried Lotus Symphony, and that looks like an improvement to OO.
Compared to Office, I don't think OO is that bad. I really like the excellent PDF export with index, links that work etc. I use it a lot. I hate Impress where you cannot browse slides easily with the scroll wheel like in Powerpoint. And somehow Office feels more snappy.
Thanks for the tip! I use Ghostery now and that seems to do the trick.
I do use it, though with caution. The problem is my smartphone. I use a different browser (Dolphin on Android) for Facebook only. That is my fix for the moment, until Chrome works on Android.