I guess I'm screwing up their data because I use my parent's phone number instead of a card for all my purchases and they live a good three hours away.
You used a real phone number? Of someone you know? To each his own I guess.
And the "Christmas Tree Closet" is another favorite. I just now got the last box of decorations put away in the traditional way. And I have to do all of it the traditional way, because if the wife "helps" I'll just have boxes of broken glass for next year. Might make good fits for children.
Couldn't she just say she was pretending to drink? (People read way too much into photos and Facebook posts as being factual. It can all be made up.)
A point I have often tried to make. There seems to be an erroneous expectation that all facebook -- or any "social media" -- posts are accurate. As if I've never made up or punched a story about myself for the amusement of friends -- online or otherwise. As if no one's ever posed in an intentionally goofy photo; the bikini girl with the BB gun who got Sarah Palin's head 'shopped on her neck comes to mind.
I don't believe there's a search mechanism for people who are tagged in pictures that don't link back to an account.
So If I had a picture of you and I posted it and tagged it as being "PPH", I don't believe there is a way to just search for pictures of "PPH" using the interface. There might be, but it would be non-obvious.
And even if there were such a mechanism -- and I believe you're right that there isn't -- one would have to be checking all the damn time to see if any new tags showed recently. At least if one has an account, one gets notified of new tags. For now. But that would sort of be coercion to get an account, as PPH wondered.
I've never found such a setting. I've seen that you can remove tags others have applied to pictures of you. You can even tag someone who doesn't even have an account . . . To test this, I just tagged my dog. And no, she doesn't have her own account.
a) It would be VERY irresponsible of her to stop taking that medication cold turkey. It doesn't get out of your system for days/weeks and in the short term would have had rebound effects.
b) She would have been told very clearly not to drink while on any anti-depressant/anti-psychotic medication. She obviously broke that rule.
Adds these two points together and you get someone with poor judgement and not able to take very good care of herself.
a) Who says if she stopped it was "cold turkey"? "Months ago" would only suggest "when", not "how".
b.1)Are you sure that one would be "told very clearly not to drink . .." on the meds? Ya, the bottle might say that, but you see the "don't drink" on practically every Rx med these days, it can kinda look more like a CYA thing. Like the warning to wear eye-protection when using your new pliers.
b.2)Who says she's on an anti-depressant/anti-psychotic medication for Bipolar Disorder?
Of course one should consider that . . . the best she could do was "no fair I didn't say tags were allowed" for a defense, so most likely she's a mental midget who shouldn't be trusted to raise children.
Unless she's representing herself, wouldn't this be more her lawyer's fault?
The news here is that some US judge signed a subpoena based on that email... Some might argue that such as judge is somewhat stupid... To put it mildly...:)
Look at it this way:
The email confesses to sharing files. It also goes on to talk about leprechauns and unicorns, but that's not relevant to the core of the issue here, which is "did this person share files or didn't they? Well, they say they did".
The sender claims to be in Sweden. Well, good for them. But there's no evidence either way, and wouldn't it be interesting if it later transpired they were lying? Particularly as you could then say to the court - assuming it ever gets that far - "Mr. Defendant, you claimed to be in Sweden and beyond US justice. Yet here you are standing in a US courtroom, and the IP address you were using is based in the US. Can you explain that for us, please?"
Such a judge must also be frequently checking to make sure his refrigerator is running.
My brother, who isn't averse to saying "you can fix my computer", is a truck driver. Next time he comes to visit me while on vacation I'm going to get him to haul some furniture for me. I wonder if that will be enough to make him get the point.
What did he say when you told him you didn't have time?
I imagine he said pretty much the same thing 'Mildred' said: "It'll only take you 10 minutes."
run it thru pretty print or some other formatter before sending it.
If it's looking for writing style, not just punctuation, spacing, caps, etc., then you might also want to do an auto-translate back and forth from your language. But that would potentially provide another way to find you if you used an online translator.
There are problems in how they recruited students, so the skills of the students who finish are in question? How does one lead to the other?
Surely you've noticed that some schools recruit and admit students primarily on their belief in their academic abilities and potential (grades, test scores, previous educational institutions, . ..).
Other schools -- in particular the for-profit-tech schools in question here -- recruit and admit on a different basis. In the case of the for-profit-techs, that basis is the prospective student's ability to qualify for student loans.
My sister-in-law works for one of these institutions in the recruiting department. Her job is a quota-based sales position. Salespeople who meet their quota are retained, those who don't get put on "probation" and are eventually cut. Her motivation is to get as many candidates to enroll as possible. Her employee evaluation is based solely on body count.
I would say, therefore, that the skills of graduates of programs where students are recruited in such a system as employed by the for-profit-techs might be lacking compared to graduates of more selective institutions, if for no other reason than the "quality" of the incoming students.
Yes, the whole system is broken. I've been saying for years that we need to racially reform society as less and less work is available.
I'm old enough to remember the sci-fi promise that more and more automation would allow humans more leisure time without sacrificing the necessities and comforts they were accustomed to. But that hasn't really come to pass, even with machines taking over human jobs. Instead. fewer people have work, many who still have work feel compelled to work more (so it looks harder) to keep their jobs, more people don't have jobs, and the ownership class has more and more in relation to the rest of us.
So how did that happen? I for one blame the Puritan Ethic. Those who have more are clearly blessed. Those who have less have less because they are less deserving: they are shiftless, lazy, unworthy. Even non-believing or not-particularly-religious people (at least here in the US) believe this philosophy, even if they don't know that's why they feel that way. Those with better jobs just know they are more deserving, simply because they have the job they do, the resources they do, the blessings they have. Ask almost any Libertarian-type here on Slashdot and you'll learn that they have what they have based solely on their own merit. Of course it's true, the very fact they have what they have proves it.
And here we are, still wanting a 20hr a week job and a robot butler, but instead we get to work 40+ hour weeks and some other guy gets 0 hours. At least it averages out to the promise of technology -- kinda like how a 60.2F annual average temperature in Oklahoma City amounts to a really comfortable climate.
If the technology is out there to do this safely and securely, how could it possibly be a bad thing. These being used at major gatherings - Olympics, Superbowl, World Cup - all round the world these should be able to be used given the current state of the world we live in.
And once something exists, it's much easier to make another one. Once you know it can be done, it eliminates a lot of the risk and expense, R&D-wise. Probably one on Hack a Day in a couple years or less. I want x-ray vision, too. How long till I get mine? Looks like it'll be sooner than my jetpack, flying car and robot butler. And of course I promise to only use it for good, and not for evil.
Why? I played it a few minutes. I'm not especially young, but it was rather boring, and I was able to grasp the limits of the whole game in under half a minute.
I served as the chairman of a not-for-profit board for a while. And our meetings just seem to be interminable.
Finally, I offered to be the permanent refreshment-bringer. I purchased only spicy or salty snacks, and only caffeinated beverages -- actually, just a tiny non-zero number of non-caffeinated ones to prevent moaning from the "I can't have caffeine" board member.
My idea wasn't to ensure good decisions, but just that something got decided and we didn't sit around all night trying to redirect back to the subject at hand.
I've been going to the doctor with a family member often and they were constantly taking his blood pressure. So I've been curious about the things that affect blood pressure and according one nurse if you have a full bladder your blood pressure will go up significantly. (Couldn't quickly confirm via google, could a slashdot MD confirm or refute?)
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
But I have been told by actual doctors (including the one i'm married to) that a full bladder can increase your blood pressure a little -- conversely, emptying said bladder can drop your blood pressure. If you're on the verge of fainting for whatever reason, urinating can push you right off that cliff.
. . . At some point, we need to stop sending these third world shitholes both our cash and food aid. Pay for the oil with food, save the cash for ourselves.
I'm not certain the Saudis, for example, would find that such an attractive proposition. Or the Canadians, or British, or Kuwaitis.
Agree with above. Got my N900 almost a year ago. It's a love-hate relationship.
The N900 is unique; there's nothing else like it. I have to have it. [1]
Having said that, the UI is just crap. To be more specific, there are so many ways in which a little effort would have enhanced the user experience so significantly, but this effort was not made. It gives the whole feeling of the software having been rushed to market.
Same here, I'm afraid.
- the Phone app (yes, the one app you must have on the N900 if you want to make a phone call) does not have a digital keypad on the main screen. You have to tap on the "I want to display a keypad" button to bring it up, in which case the "hang up" and "mute" buttons disappear. Whoever thought of putting the keypad on a separate window? It's not like there's no real estate on the main phone screen, which is 50% empty (it just shows the number you're dialing, and four buttons: "hang up", "answer call", "mute", and "switch to the display with the keypad").
Makes you think the phone is an afterthought, doesn't it?
Well, the landscape mode is crippled. For starters, many of the apps don't recognize landscape mode; of the ones that do, most just try to shoehorn everything into a narrower screen.
For example, the Ovi Maps navigation software always orients the display so that your location is near the centre of the map, while your route is shown as being in front of you. Unfortunately, in standard landscape mode this means that there is only about 2cm between your location and the top edge of the screen to display the next portion of the route you'd have to take, while there's about a 8cm width on the horizontal screen displaying useless information about what's to the left or right. (Why would I want to know about that? I want to know where I need to go, not what's on either side of me.)
The ingenious Slashdotter would think, "I know! I'll just rotate the screen so that it is oriented vertically!" Sadly for you, the geniuses at Nokia have perfected a way to foil your ingenuity. When you rotate the screen, the display reorganizes itself to use only the uppermost 60% of the screen, leaving the lower 40% of the screen completely black. By the way, because the screen is now narrower, there is not enough room to fit in all the menu/screen controls/etc.
I've got a dedicated GPS (a Magellan that I got as a gift) that has landscape mode only -- wide screen too. I've got the same complaint with it (I don't care what's 10 miles left of me!), so maybe Nokia just copied something they saw. It still wasn't a good idea, and they should have done more research rather than settling on the first thing they saw. BTW if anyone wants a wide-screen Magellan GPS cheap, let me know.
- the device uses a standard (micro-)USB port for charging. Unfortunately, you won't be able to use most USB chargers for it. When you hook up the N900 by its USB port, it tries to talk to the computer it's connected to; upon success, it will gladly start charging. However, when you connect (say) a typical car charger to it, the N900 finds that it can't talk to the computer it thinks is on the other end of the USB cable, and refuses to charge.
It turns out, I am told, that there is supposed to be this standard where the charger says "I am not a computer, just a plain charger," by shorting the data pins together. To its credit, Nokia does supply a (wall, not car) charger that works like this. Good luck finding a car charger that works, though. I have been told by a number of 1337 N900 users that this is the fault of the charger manufacturers for not following the specs, and that it must be my fault for not being able to make my own charger work by shorting the data pins together, because on of the 1337 users on the IRC channel was able to do this with a soldering gun, so the other N900 users should be able to go out and buy soldering equipment
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He's aware of this. It's a thought experiment, no more. He even says so.
Whoa there, cowboy. What's with the reading the article and getting the point crap? This is slashdot, here.
I guess I'm screwing up their data because I use my parent's phone number instead of a card for all my purchases and they live a good three hours away.
You used a real phone number? Of someone you know? To each his own I guess.
My next house will have two dishwashers, dammit.
(hopefully won't have to move to Utah)
I would now if I had the space.
And the "Christmas Tree Closet" is another favorite. I just now got the last box of decorations put away in the traditional way. And I have to do all of it the traditional way, because if the wife "helps" I'll just have boxes of broken glass for next year. Might make good fits for children.
It wasn't the lawyer's public drinking that was an issue.
I'm pretty sure you knew what I meant about her lawyer and her choice of defense . . .
Couldn't she just say she was pretending to drink? (People read way too much into photos and Facebook posts as being factual. It can all be made up.)
A point I have often tried to make. There seems to be an erroneous expectation that all facebook -- or any "social media" -- posts are accurate. As if I've never made up or punched a story about myself for the amusement of friends -- online or otherwise. As if no one's ever posed in an intentionally goofy photo; the bikini girl with the BB gun who got Sarah Palin's head 'shopped on her neck comes to mind.
I don't believe there's a search mechanism for people who are tagged in pictures that don't link back to an account.
So If I had a picture of you and I posted it and tagged it as being "PPH", I don't believe there is a way to just search for pictures of "PPH" using the interface. There might be, but it would be non-obvious.
And even if there were such a mechanism -- and I believe you're right that there isn't -- one would have to be checking all the damn time to see if any new tags showed recently. At least if one has an account, one gets notified of new tags. For now. But that would sort of be coercion to get an account, as PPH wondered.
I've never found such a setting. I've seen that you can remove tags others have applied to pictures of you. You can even tag someone who doesn't even have an account . . . To test this, I just tagged my dog. And no, she doesn't have her own account.
a) It would be VERY irresponsible of her to stop taking that medication cold turkey. It doesn't get out of your system for days/weeks and in the short term would have had rebound effects. b) She would have been told very clearly not to drink while on any anti-depressant/anti-psychotic medication. She obviously broke that rule. Adds these two points together and you get someone with poor judgement and not able to take very good care of herself.
a) Who says if she stopped it was "cold turkey"? "Months ago" would only suggest "when", not "how".
b.1)Are you sure that one would be "told very clearly not to drink . . ." on the meds? Ya, the bottle might say that, but you see the "don't drink" on practically every Rx med these days, it can kinda look more like a CYA thing. Like the warning to wear eye-protection when using your new pliers.
b.2)Who says she's on an anti-depressant/anti-psychotic medication for Bipolar Disorder?
Of course one should consider that . . . the best she could do was "no fair I didn't say tags were allowed" for a defense, so most likely she's a mental midget who shouldn't be trusted to raise children.
Unless she's representing herself, wouldn't this be more her lawyer's fault?
I think the best part of DST is the opportunity to have this semi-annual anti-DST rant-fest. It's better than sunlight!
The news here is that some US judge signed a subpoena based on that email... Some might argue that such as judge is somewhat stupid... To put it mildly... :)
Look at it this way:
Such a judge must also be frequently checking to make sure his refrigerator is running.
My brother, who isn't averse to saying "you can fix my computer", is a truck driver. Next time he comes to visit me while on vacation I'm going to get him to haul some furniture for me. I wonder if that will be enough to make him get the point.
What did he say when you told him you didn't have time?
I imagine he said pretty much the same thing 'Mildred' said: "It'll only take you 10 minutes."
run it thru pretty print or some other formatter before sending it.
If it's looking for writing style, not just punctuation, spacing, caps, etc., then you might also want to do an auto-translate back and forth from your language. But that would potentially provide another way to find you if you used an online translator.
There are problems in how they recruited students, so the skills of the students who finish are in question? How does one lead to the other?
Surely you've noticed that some schools recruit and admit students primarily on their belief in their academic abilities and potential (grades, test scores, previous educational institutions, . . .).
Other schools -- in particular the for-profit-tech schools in question here -- recruit and admit on a different basis. In the case of the for-profit-techs, that basis is the prospective student's ability to qualify for student loans.
My sister-in-law works for one of these institutions in the recruiting department. Her job is a quota-based sales position. Salespeople who meet their quota are retained, those who don't get put on "probation" and are eventually cut. Her motivation is to get as many candidates to enroll as possible. Her employee evaluation is based solely on body count.
I would say, therefore, that the skills of graduates of programs where students are recruited in such a system as employed by the for-profit-techs might be lacking compared to graduates of more selective institutions, if for no other reason than the "quality" of the incoming students.
You seem to be under the impression that I was talking about myself. I seem to be under the impression that you didn't read the parent post.
I seem to be under the impression that you're being more than a little disingenuous to say you weren't speaking of yourself.
Yes, the whole system is broken. I've been saying for years that we need to racially reform society as less and less work is available.
I'm old enough to remember the sci-fi promise that more and more automation would allow humans more leisure time without sacrificing the necessities and comforts they were accustomed to. But that hasn't really come to pass, even with machines taking over human jobs. Instead. fewer people have work, many who still have work feel compelled to work more (so it looks harder) to keep their jobs, more people don't have jobs, and the ownership class has more and more in relation to the rest of us.
So how did that happen? I for one blame the Puritan Ethic. Those who have more are clearly blessed. Those who have less have less because they are less deserving: they are shiftless, lazy, unworthy. Even non-believing or not-particularly-religious people (at least here in the US) believe this philosophy, even if they don't know that's why they feel that way. Those with better jobs just know they are more deserving, simply because they have the job they do, the resources they do, the blessings they have. Ask almost any Libertarian-type here on Slashdot and you'll learn that they have what they have based solely on their own merit. Of course it's true, the very fact they have what they have proves it.
And here we are, still wanting a 20hr a week job and a robot butler, but instead we get to work 40+ hour weeks and some other guy gets 0 hours. At least it averages out to the promise of technology -- kinda like how a 60.2F annual average temperature in Oklahoma City amounts to a really comfortable climate.
Wasn't this done under Obama? Pretty sure he's a Democrat.
I wish I shared your certainty . . .
Not following published specs and best practices will get you exactly what you deserve on any api.
Not if you wrote the specs.
If the technology is out there to do this safely and securely, how could it possibly be a bad thing. These being used at major gatherings - Olympics, Superbowl, World Cup - all round the world these should be able to be used given the current state of the world we live in.
And once something exists, it's much easier to make another one. Once you know it can be done, it eliminates a lot of the risk and expense, R&D-wise. Probably one on Hack a Day in a couple years or less. I want x-ray vision, too. How long till I get mine? Looks like it'll be sooner than my jetpack, flying car and robot butler. And of course I promise to only use it for good, and not for evil.
Why? I played it a few minutes. I'm not especially young, but it was rather boring, and I was able to grasp the limits of the whole game in under half a minute.
Like checkers, it's better with an opponent.
I served as the chairman of a not-for-profit board for a while. And our meetings just seem to be interminable.
Finally, I offered to be the permanent refreshment-bringer. I purchased only spicy or salty snacks, and only caffeinated beverages -- actually, just a tiny non-zero number of non-caffeinated ones to prevent moaning from the "I can't have caffeine" board member.
My idea wasn't to ensure good decisions, but just that something got decided and we didn't sit around all night trying to redirect back to the subject at hand.
I've been going to the doctor with a family member often and they were constantly taking his blood pressure. So I've been curious about the things that affect blood pressure and according one nurse if you have a full bladder your blood pressure will go up significantly. (Couldn't quickly confirm via google, could a slashdot MD confirm or refute?)
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
But I have been told by actual doctors (including the one i'm married to) that a full bladder can increase your blood pressure a little -- conversely, emptying said bladder can drop your blood pressure. If you're on the verge of fainting for whatever reason, urinating can push you right off that cliff.
. . . At some point, we need to stop sending these third world shitholes both our cash and food aid. Pay for the oil with food, save the cash for ourselves.
I'm not certain the Saudis, for example, would find that such an attractive proposition. Or the Canadians, or British, or Kuwaitis.
5) Maybe there's more than one normal . . .
Agree with above. Got my N900 almost a year ago. It's a love-hate relationship.
The N900 is unique; there's nothing else like it. I have to have it. [1]
Having said that, the UI is just crap. To be more specific, there are so many ways in which a little effort would have enhanced the user experience so significantly, but this effort was not made. It gives the whole feeling of the software having been rushed to market.
Same here, I'm afraid.
- the Phone app (yes, the one app you must have on the N900 if you want to make a phone call) does not have a digital keypad on the main screen. You have to tap on the "I want to display a keypad" button to bring it up, in which case the "hang up" and "mute" buttons disappear. Whoever thought of putting the keypad on a separate window? It's not like there's no real estate on the main phone screen, which is 50% empty (it just shows the number you're dialing, and four buttons: "hang up", "answer call", "mute", and "switch to the display with the keypad").
Makes you think the phone is an afterthought, doesn't it?
Well, the landscape mode is crippled. For starters, many of the apps don't recognize landscape mode; of the ones that do, most just try to shoehorn everything into a narrower screen. For example, the Ovi Maps navigation software always orients the display so that your location is near the centre of the map, while your route is shown as being in front of you. Unfortunately, in standard landscape mode this means that there is only about 2cm between your location and the top edge of the screen to display the next portion of the route you'd have to take, while there's about a 8cm width on the horizontal screen displaying useless information about what's to the left or right. (Why would I want to know about that? I want to know where I need to go, not what's on either side of me.) The ingenious Slashdotter would think, "I know! I'll just rotate the screen so that it is oriented vertically!" Sadly for you, the geniuses at Nokia have perfected a way to foil your ingenuity. When you rotate the screen, the display reorganizes itself to use only the uppermost 60% of the screen, leaving the lower 40% of the screen completely black. By the way, because the screen is now narrower, there is not enough room to fit in all the menu/screen controls/etc.
I've got a dedicated GPS (a Magellan that I got as a gift) that has landscape mode only -- wide screen too. I've got the same complaint with it (I don't care what's 10 miles left of me!), so maybe Nokia just copied something they saw. It still wasn't a good idea, and they should have done more research rather than settling on the first thing they saw. BTW if anyone wants a wide-screen Magellan GPS cheap, let me know.
- the device uses a standard (micro-)USB port for charging. Unfortunately, you won't be able to use most USB chargers for it. When you hook up the N900 by its USB port, it tries to talk to the computer it's connected to; upon success, it will gladly start charging. However, when you connect (say) a typical car charger to it, the N900 finds that it can't talk to the computer it thinks is on the other end of the USB cable, and refuses to charge. It turns out, I am told, that there is supposed to be this standard where the charger says "I am not a computer, just a plain charger," by shorting the data pins together. To its credit, Nokia does supply a (wall, not car) charger that works like this. Good luck finding a car charger that works, though. I have been told by a number of 1337 N900 users that this is the fault of the charger manufacturers for not following the specs, and that it must be my fault for not being able to make my own charger work by shorting the data pins together, because on of the 1337 users on the IRC channel was able to do this with a soldering gun, so the other N900 users should be able to go out and buy soldering equipment