It's the Play store. Like you said, Android devices without it don't sell. But if you want it, then you have to obey some rather onerous terms. Like you must include ALL the Google apps.
I think Google could maybe resolve this particular issue if they offered a Play-only option for, say, $20 per shipped phone, without being allowed to install the rest of the gapps by default (i.e. the user would have to install their favorite Google apps one-by-one).
I did something similar (though not quite so destructive) nearly 20 years ago when I was first learning Linux.
Same here. Thought I was in/tmp, was actually in/, and did an "rm -rf *".
Fortunately, things were a bit slower back then and glob ordering being what it is I was able to ctrl-C it before it got further than/bin. With rcp being in/usr/bin/, I was able to (carefully) recover from another system.
Like Disney gives a shit about that, it's a miracle that they didn't retcon the first trilogy altogether so far.
That's roughly my point. You're arguing that fans aren't going to misrepresent Star Wars canon, but you're also aknowledging that there's a (growing) disagreement between fans and the property owners about what actually is canon.
In such a disagreement, the side with the bigger lawyers usually "wins".
Based on the shit that's on my feed it's the stupid-ass memes that people post which seem to get play, and personal updates show up rarely, or several hours/days late.
I'm afraid that you have to curate manually if you want to filter out the shit. Every post has a little dropdown menu which usually has a "Hide all from..." option. As a general rule, anything with "meme", "viral", "funny", "adult", or especially anything that looks like a TV or radio call sign should be blocked as you encounter it. My feed these days is largely personal posts from friends or business pages I intentionally follow.
Obviously it would be better if Facebook could figure it out on its own and suppress most of that stuff, but "making Facebook more usable" doesn't seem to be a high priority for them...
...and no to the second. There is very very good evidence that the current trend is due to human activities. There simply are no natural sources of change that have this magnitude of effect this quickly that we would not be able to see. (Remember, we do measure solar output. One thing we know: the current trend is not due to solar variability. If we stop these activities, the current trend will stop. (Although it will take a while to do so.)
I don't think the gp was referring to the evidence of human activities being a major cause so much as the overwhelming evidence that we're not going to do more than talk about reducing those activities.
That's more or less my feelings on it. Arguing about causes is interesting and all that, but ultimately doesn't buy us much. We need to start seriously talking about how we're going to deal with the consequences, because we've largely wasted the opportunities we had to fix it.
it's useful to have the app to get messages, notifications etc and also create posts from the hub
I don't have the hub on my Android device, but I actually consider the lack of messages, notifications and any other kind of automatic update to be a feature. There's nothing so important happening on Facebook that it can't wait until I next visit the web site.
"Blackberry has had to replaced their official Facebook App with a native app that uses a simple web interface."
Oh no, those poor peasants, forced to use a filthy web interface! Oh the shame, oh the degradation, how will they ever be able to hold their heads up in public again??
I'm not seeing the problem, here, either. Facebook on a mobile browser is, IMHO, a *better* experience than the Facebook App. No battery drain while you're not using it, no notification nonsense, no having Facebook code creeping through your private data.
Wow, one man's "meh" is another man's glowing Chernobyl.
Not to get all "get off my lawn" or anything, but the first GUI computer I owned was a Macintosh 512. It's not the first GUI I ever used, but I've lost track of the different incarnations of MacOS, Windows, X11, and various handhelds I've used over the years. I've used more X11 window managers than I can name, but I remember starting with twm on an X terminal. You know what? They don't really matter that much. I spend 99% of my time in applications or terminals. If the DE is stable and doesn't suck my attention when passing through, it's not really worth spending time messing with alternatives.
Unity... isn't ideal. The sidebar isn't any different than WindowMaker or fvwm. The lens concept is a heaping waste of Canonical's time and energy, but KDE or Windows' menu hierarchies aren't exactly paragons of efficiency, either. The top menu bar could be turned off if I cared, but it's usable. Multi-head could be better, particularly for laptops, but it's 200% improved from the days when I had to reboot every time I pulled my laptop from the dock.
So.. meh. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome, maybe it's just low standards. I get shit done in Unity and I don't have to spend time thinking about it.
Canonical jumped on the band wagon and made a dreadfully stupid user interface called 'Unity'... It's lame and cannot be customized.
In it's defense, Unity was/is fantastic on a smaller (9" netbook, 12" laptop) screen compared to alternatives. The original name was "Ubuntu Netbook Remix", which should be a hint as to the target device. The sidebar would hide, application windows maximized, and the menubar/titlebar merge at the top of the screen was perfect. Plus it was far, far faster and lower resource than Gnome or KDE.
On a 24" dual-head configuration Unity is... meh. I prefer the sidebar over having a dock on the bottom simply because I've got far more horizontal than vertical real-estate, but the Unity launcher/lens/whatever concept is complete and utter shit. Fortunately, the only thing I actually need to run from there to get functioning is a terminal. Otherwise, it mostly stays out of the way...
It could be argued that $700 might be too little for a small production run unless they've found a way to really, really cut corners. I suspect they'll have to take an existing 13.3" tablet design (with all the case tooling, logic boards, etc already available) and just change out the display with no other hardware modifications and more or less no requirement for software QA. If that's the strategy, then the fact that it ships with Android 4.0.4 would imply it's several generations old hardware... In which case, $700 actually might be ridiculously overpriced on the buyer side of the equation.
There is no question of *changing* iOS to allow the FBI to do this. iOS already allows this by *design*. It's just a matter of changing the payload.
It's just a matter of developing a new, custom payload that's 100% guaranteed not to screw anything up. It's not the same thing.
If the FBI was demanding that Apple install an existing payload (an internal development version or something like that), or sign an FBI-developed payload, it might be equivalent.
If Slashdot had finished rolling out beta and turned the comment system into a proper blend of conversational interfaces with rich graphical UI elements, you could have written that sentence with nothing more than an animated emoticon.
Instead it got sold to a bunch of hacks who seem to care more about usability than hipness...
Would that be why the main gc.ca site runs Apache and OpenSSL on Linux, and why Revenue Canada had to shut down online filing for a few days when Heartbleed hit to upgrade systems?
It's a mixed bag, to be honest. On the server side there's a heavy Linux presence. On the desktop side, if you don't use or have access to a Windows box you're screwed. And with SSC interposing themselves in just about all IT decisions there's a high likelihood that it's going to get worse. The ETI (e-mail transformation initiative) is a good example of just this sort of boneheaded stuff.
ABP is known to be a pig. A comparison with uBlock Origin would be a lot more meaningful. A comparison with a hostsfile would, of course, not reflect well on any ad blocking extension.
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I think Google could maybe resolve this particular issue if they offered a Play-only option for, say, $20 per shipped phone, without being allowed to install the rest of the gapps by default (i.e. the user would have to install their favorite Google apps one-by-one).
Same here. Thought I was in /tmp, was actually in /, and did an "rm -rf *".
Fortunately, things were a bit slower back then and glob ordering being what it is I was able to ctrl-C it before it got further than /bin. With rcp being in /usr/bin/, I was able to (carefully) recover from another system.
That's roughly my point. You're arguing that fans aren't going to misrepresent Star Wars canon, but you're also aknowledging that there's a (growing) disagreement between fans and the property owners about what actually is canon.
In such a disagreement, the side with the bigger lawyers usually "wins".
Sure. Just as long as nobody brings up Greedo shooting first...
So, basically, she's the polar opposite of Trump?
To be honest, I think it's well into the "fuck it, we've got money, let's do both of them!" stage.
I'm afraid that you have to curate manually if you want to filter out the shit. Every post has a little dropdown menu which usually has a "Hide all from..." option. As a general rule, anything with "meme", "viral", "funny", "adult", or especially anything that looks like a TV or radio call sign should be blocked as you encounter it. My feed these days is largely personal posts from friends or business pages I intentionally follow.
Obviously it would be better if Facebook could figure it out on its own and suppress most of that stuff, but "making Facebook more usable" doesn't seem to be a high priority for them...
I wouldn't worry... even if the SCO suit dies, we'll still have Microsoft's mobile *giggle* strategy *snort*.
It's far, far cheaper to just bribe a few congresscritters and get their interests protected by pushing lopsided trade agreements.
Fucking hell, Slashdot... April 1st is still a couple days away!
The "box" has the (moving) build platform and apparently some kind of resin peel mechanism, so there's a bit more to it.
But yeah, the phone thing seems pretty gimmicky. On the other hand, building in a decent pico projector would've really spiked the price.
I don't think the gp was referring to the evidence of human activities being a major cause so much as the overwhelming evidence that we're not going to do more than talk about reducing those activities.
That's more or less my feelings on it. Arguing about causes is interesting and all that, but ultimately doesn't buy us much. We need to start seriously talking about how we're going to deal with the consequences, because we've largely wasted the opportunities we had to fix it.
I don't have the hub on my Android device, but I actually consider the lack of messages, notifications and any other kind of automatic update to be a feature. There's nothing so important happening on Facebook that it can't wait until I next visit the web site.
A summary for an article about a release of software most of us have never heard of that actually describes the purpose of the software?!?
Slashdot, you really have changed!
I'm not seeing the problem, here, either. Facebook on a mobile browser is, IMHO, a *better* experience than the Facebook App. No battery drain while you're not using it, no notification nonsense, no having Facebook code creeping through your private data.
Not to get all "get off my lawn" or anything, but the first GUI computer I owned was a Macintosh 512. It's not the first GUI I ever used, but I've lost track of the different incarnations of MacOS, Windows, X11, and various handhelds I've used over the years. I've used more X11 window managers than I can name, but I remember starting with twm on an X terminal. You know what? They don't really matter that much. I spend 99% of my time in applications or terminals. If the DE is stable and doesn't suck my attention when passing through, it's not really worth spending time messing with alternatives.
Unity... isn't ideal. The sidebar isn't any different than WindowMaker or fvwm. The lens concept is a heaping waste of Canonical's time and energy, but KDE or Windows' menu hierarchies aren't exactly paragons of efficiency, either. The top menu bar could be turned off if I cared, but it's usable. Multi-head could be better, particularly for laptops, but it's 200% improved from the days when I had to reboot every time I pulled my laptop from the dock.
So.. meh. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome, maybe it's just low standards. I get shit done in Unity and I don't have to spend time thinking about it.
In it's defense, Unity was/is fantastic on a smaller (9" netbook, 12" laptop) screen compared to alternatives. The original name was "Ubuntu Netbook Remix", which should be a hint as to the target device. The sidebar would hide, application windows maximized, and the menubar/titlebar merge at the top of the screen was perfect. Plus it was far, far faster and lower resource than Gnome or KDE.
On a 24" dual-head configuration Unity is... meh. I prefer the sidebar over having a dock on the bottom simply because I've got far more horizontal than vertical real-estate, but the Unity launcher/lens/whatever concept is complete and utter shit. Fortunately, the only thing I actually need to run from there to get functioning is a terminal. Otherwise, it mostly stays out of the way...
No, they can cut them. But if they keep cutting them, eventually they'll run afoul of Apple's design patent.
It could be argued that $700 might be too little for a small production run unless they've found a way to really, really cut corners. I suspect they'll have to take an existing 13.3" tablet design (with all the case tooling, logic boards, etc already available) and just change out the display with no other hardware modifications and more or less no requirement for software QA. If that's the strategy, then the fact that it ships with Android 4.0.4 would imply it's several generations old hardware... In which case, $700 actually might be ridiculously overpriced on the buyer side of the equation.
It's just a matter of developing a new, custom payload that's 100% guaranteed not to screw anything up. It's not the same thing.
If the FBI was demanding that Apple install an existing payload (an internal development version or something like that), or sign an FBI-developed payload, it might be equivalent.
If Slashdot had finished rolling out beta and turned the comment system into a proper blend of conversational interfaces with rich graphical UI elements, you could have written that sentence with nothing more than an animated emoticon.
Instead it got sold to a bunch of hacks who seem to care more about usability than hipness...
Yes, but your death inspires us all.
It's a mixed bag, to be honest. On the server side there's a heavy Linux presence. On the desktop side, if you don't use or have access to a Windows box you're screwed. And with SSC interposing themselves in just about all IT decisions there's a high likelihood that it's going to get worse. The ETI (e-mail transformation initiative) is a good example of just this sort of boneheaded stuff.
ABP is known to be a pig. A comparison with uBlock Origin would be a lot more meaningful. A comparison with a hostsfile would, of course, not reflect well on any ad blocking extension.