As a web developer, I rarely have to touch the subject of the mobile web, and when I do I basically have to present my clients with two options: 1. you pay me a non-trivial sum to create a second version of your site just for the mobile web or 2. you are restricted to sites built in tools which are mobile web enabled.
I can tell you from years of experience, unless it's part of their business model clients go for option 3: fuck the mobile web.
I bet the majority of people who played Sony rootkit CD's didn't have their CD player stop working. Maybe we should have let that go. And the majority of people who buy Netbooks don't miss Linux on them. Maybe we should let that go. And I bet we could find a lot of other things a Slashdotter would care about that we could just let go. But it's a lot easier to let it go if it's something you don't care about personally. And that's before we even discuss whether or not sane people burn themselves to the point they can't taste anything and thinks that's okay.
All of our bluetooth headsetsand mice seem to work as long as we stay in range. My wireless signal occasionally falls apart even though my laptop is about 3 feet from the router. My sister's Wi-Fi goes out anytime they use their cordless home phone. So from my perspective, I think they need to work on making Wi-Fi as reliable as Bluetooth before trying to replace Bluetooth.
What are these numbers good for? Is there a reason, other than the love of math, that a non-profit which accepts donations would pay $100,000 for this?
I don't think they're buying Macs because somebody made FreeBSD pretty. I think they're buying it because it's the new Mac. I don't think they're buying phones with Android because it's so pretty, or even because it has Google's name on it. I think they're buying it cause it's the new "smartphone" with a touchscreen and iPhone isn't available for their phone company.
You know the #1 thing I hate about touchscreens? It's fingerprints. With two screens, you can use one as a touchscreen and watch the widescreen movie on the other with no fingerprints.
It is my opinion that (Google is no more "secure" than any other website or corporation. Google is doing the same thing Sony does; they're just slapping their name on their new product and letting a bunch of people assume it's good because their name is on it. The only interesting thing mentioned in the article synopsis is the "Fetch as Googlebot" feature, because now when you search for a picture and Google lists some 4000x3000 photo that matches what you want and it turns out that was just bait which doesn't exist when you go to the actual site, you can "Fetch as Googlebot" and get the same result they fed to the search engine.)
That means with Linux the poor hackers would have been stuck with using the compromised VPN account to take over the entire system, with no crash or any other evidence...
Although I've never done a "Poke" on Facebook, the way it's set up makes it appear that you choose a single person to poke. It's not a message broadcast to everybody associated with you.
It's my understanding that the apps are done in Java, and it's fairly easy to get the source code to a Java program. If this is so, how do people port their commercially viable applications to Android without other people easily ripping off their source code? Does the book cover any better methods of protecting the source code than "obfuscation"?
The part I don't understand is what they arrested him for. They didn't list anything he did, and said he didn't have contact with anything that could have been used for "terrorism". So he didn't do anything and didn't have the materials to do something if he wanted to. What was the charge?
Black female, here. I'd like to temporarily interrupt your rant to respond to this:
I make under $50,000/year. I didn't go to an Ivy League college, I paid my own way from a Tier 2 college on partial merit-based (National Merit Scholar) assistance. If I had been female or black, I was told by most of the places I applied that (a) if I wasn't accepted, being female/black would have gotten me in and I was rejected so they could meet minority-quota, or (b) I was accepted but all their scholarship money was reserved for female or "minority" students and the basic NMS assistance was all I'd get out of them.
I didn't get this Black fund or this Woman fund that pays for college. The financial aid office didn't tell me "good news, you don't have to pay because you're Black and Female". I have about $40,000 in student loans from a bank.
I need you to imagine for a moment that you are a Black woman. You have to work with people. You have to apply for jobs. You sometimes need help from people. And all of these people are white men who have been told time and time again, they would have all the things they deserve and all the things they worked for, except that all of those things were given to people like you instead. This is in spite of the fact, they're making more money than you and they have the job you wish you had.
Better yet, imagine you finally have a chance to get a promotion that will put you over that $50,000 mark. And the person who has to decide whether to give it to you or the next guy has just finished reading some slashdot post about how the other guy deserves it and you don't. I'm just saying.
Was it "genuine"? Cause all I got was a message saying the system was being updated. I waited that out and everything worked as usual. The only annoyance was it didn't say what was updated, nor did it ask if I wanted the updates even though my settings are to notify me before updating.
When I look at Balrog in StreetFighter, and the black man in the Final Fantasies games, I see a game just portraying Black men as big dumb idiots who use profanity all the time. Since that is the same shit I have to watch on TV, it would be nice if I could play a video game and get something different, but it's no different.
In real life, I get called a slut, a whore, and a bitch and people assume I am all those things. It would be nice if in a video game I could get away from it, but it's no different. The games just make you a slut/whore/bitch who can fight.
It is my understanding, in Germany, it is illegal to display certain symbols because they are considered anti-Jewish. If a video game were an escape from reality, that symbol could be displayed in video games, but that is not the case.
And these are just the things I've noticed as a Black woman and occasional Slashdot user. I doubt there are only three things.
So yes, video games are full of ideology. And they may be an escape from reality, but they won't help you stop thinking about the same shit you get everywhere else. It just helps you imagine yourself in a different position within that shit.
Yes, but you have Macs, PC's, and a Sun computer and you're on Slashdot with the screen name, "Penguin's Advocate". What about normal people?
My take on this story was that "everybody" has a PC, and some of the people bought Macs, which resulted in a lot of people people having both. It's like saying most people with blond hair have ears but most people with ears don't have blond hair. It doesn't really say blond hair is good or bad, doesn't say ears are good or bad. It just says everybody has ears and some people have blond hair, and therefore there is a lot of overlap.
"old and lame" is attacking Windows every time somebody finds a flaw in Linux. It doesn't make the flaw go away. It would be better to just admit Linux isn't perfect either. Then you don't have to keep saying "but Windows..." every time something like this comes up.
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There's also option 4: fuck you...
It sucks on the DSi, even though sites like IMDB and Amazon.com work on it and I even get Facebook's site to load, kind of...
I bet the majority of people who played Sony rootkit CD's didn't have their CD player stop working. Maybe we should have let that go. And the majority of people who buy Netbooks don't miss Linux on them. Maybe we should let that go. And I bet we could find a lot of other things a Slashdotter would care about that we could just let go. But it's a lot easier to let it go if it's something you don't care about personally. And that's before we even discuss whether or not sane people burn themselves to the point they can't taste anything and thinks that's okay.
All of our bluetooth headsetsand mice seem to work as long as we stay in range. My wireless signal occasionally falls apart even though my laptop is about 3 feet from the router. My sister's Wi-Fi goes out anytime they use their cordless home phone. So from my perspective, I think they need to work on making Wi-Fi as reliable as Bluetooth before trying to replace Bluetooth.
What are these numbers good for? Is there a reason, other than the love of math, that a non-profit which accepts donations would pay $100,000 for this?
You should have gotten an iPod so there would be an app for all that.
I don't think they're buying Macs because somebody made FreeBSD pretty. I think they're buying it because it's the new Mac. I don't think they're buying phones with Android because it's so pretty, or even because it has Google's name on it. I think they're buying it cause it's the new "smartphone" with a touchscreen and iPhone isn't available for their phone company.
You know the #1 thing I hate about touchscreens? It's fingerprints. With two screens, you can use one as a touchscreen and watch the widescreen movie on the other with no fingerprints.
Why don't they just give all online multiplayer games the adult rating and be done with it?
That almost perfectly described my relationship with my husband...
It is my opinion that (Google is no more "secure" than any other website or corporation. Google is doing the same thing Sony does; they're just slapping their name on their new product and letting a bunch of people assume it's good because their name is on it. The only interesting thing mentioned in the article synopsis is the "Fetch as Googlebot" feature, because now when you search for a picture and Google lists some 4000x3000 photo that matches what you want and it turns out that was just bait which doesn't exist when you go to the actual site, you can "Fetch as Googlebot" and get the same result they fed to the search engine.)
That means with Linux the poor hackers would have been stuck with using the compromised VPN account to take over the entire system, with no crash or any other evidence...
Although I've never done a "Poke" on Facebook, the way it's set up makes it appear that you choose a single person to poke. It's not a message broadcast to everybody associated with you.
It's my understanding that the apps are done in Java, and it's fairly easy to get the source code to a Java program. If this is so, how do people port their commercially viable applications to Android without other people easily ripping off their source code? Does the book cover any better methods of protecting the source code than "obfuscation"?
One thing that appears to be a requirement is this must be a library for C++.
The part I don't understand is what they arrested him for. They didn't list anything he did, and said he didn't have contact with anything that could have been used for "terrorism". So he didn't do anything and didn't have the materials to do something if he wanted to. What was the charge?
I don't think that's true. My nephew's Sidekick has a MicroSD memory card slot.
They'll believe the Dolly Madison ones...
Black female, here. I'd like to temporarily interrupt your rant to respond to this:
I didn't get this Black fund or this Woman fund that pays for college. The financial aid office didn't tell me "good news, you don't have to pay because you're Black and Female". I have about $40,000 in student loans from a bank.
I need you to imagine for a moment that you are a Black woman. You have to work with people. You have to apply for jobs. You sometimes need help from people. And all of these people are white men who have been told time and time again, they would have all the things they deserve and all the things they worked for, except that all of those things were given to people like you instead. This is in spite of the fact, they're making more money than you and they have the job you wish you had.
Better yet, imagine you finally have a chance to get a promotion that will put you over that $50,000 mark. And the person who has to decide whether to give it to you or the next guy has just finished reading some slashdot post about how the other guy deserves it and you don't. I'm just saying.
Was it "genuine"? Cause all I got was a message saying the system was being updated. I waited that out and everything worked as usual. The only annoyance was it didn't say what was updated, nor did it ask if I wanted the updates even though my settings are to notify me before updating.
It's no better to say "if you can't prove it, it must be false".
When I look at Balrog in StreetFighter, and the black man in the Final Fantasies games, I see a game just portraying Black men as big dumb idiots who use profanity all the time. Since that is the same shit I have to watch on TV, it would be nice if I could play a video game and get something different, but it's no different.
In real life, I get called a slut, a whore, and a bitch and people assume I am all those things. It would be nice if in a video game I could get away from it, but it's no different. The games just make you a slut/whore/bitch who can fight.
It is my understanding, in Germany, it is illegal to display certain symbols because they are considered anti-Jewish. If a video game were an escape from reality, that symbol could be displayed in video games, but that is not the case.
And these are just the things I've noticed as a Black woman and occasional Slashdot user. I doubt there are only three things.
So yes, video games are full of ideology. And they may be an escape from reality, but they won't help you stop thinking about the same shit you get everywhere else. It just helps you imagine yourself in a different position within that shit.
Yes, but you have Macs, PC's, and a Sun computer and you're on Slashdot with the screen name, "Penguin's Advocate". What about normal people? My take on this story was that "everybody" has a PC, and some of the people bought Macs, which resulted in a lot of people people having both. It's like saying most people with blond hair have ears but most people with ears don't have blond hair. It doesn't really say blond hair is good or bad, doesn't say ears are good or bad. It just says everybody has ears and some people have blond hair, and therefore there is a lot of overlap.
"old and lame" is attacking Windows every time somebody finds a flaw in Linux. It doesn't make the flaw go away. It would be better to just admit Linux isn't perfect either. Then you don't have to keep saying "but Windows..." every time something like this comes up.
I agree, but I think we need to keep these people employed at Slashdot so they don't end up getting hired at the US patent office.