What iPhone are you and your friends running? Model makes a big difference - for instance, I'm on the 4. My performance is somewhat choppy at key animation points in the OS, but that's expected. So?
I tried a good 10 times on my 4 before I got it to work - it's not mentioned and an easy bit to miss in the video: as soon as you tap close you have to do the double-tap on the home button and hold the second tap a little longer than a second maybe. The key though is to do this AS SOON as you hit "Cancel." How this person ever came across the flaw is beyond me, but good poking. Someone should hire her for a QA team.
No, if you're hooking up the laptop then you shouldn't be paying for Hulu - just go free. + is for people who want to use an app or non-browser means of watching Hulu.
Hulu+ offers the ability to watch Hulu in places other than the browser. You might get a little head start on new stuff compared to plain 'ol Hulu too. I paid for it for a while - between that and Netflix, and "finding" whatever else I was missing, it was a good deal. I don't mind an ad here and there, and I don't mind paying a monthly fee to make sure there's an app for my Xbox, my phone, etc. The margins are insanely slim for Hulu, and I wouldn't expect any decent quality in their apps (oh, they have to pay to be on some of those devices, too), from just ads.
I struggled a lot with whether to mod you up or reply in hopes of my karma boosting your post up some - someone please mod this up! Unfortunately, you can't count on many a/. reader going to your link, and all you did was dump it - but it is of value:
As Bier put it, "The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports defines a ‘violent crime’ as one of four specific offenses: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault." By contrast, "the British definition includes all ‘crimes against the person,’ including simple assaults, all robberies, and all ‘sexual offenses,’ as opposed to the FBI, which only counts aggravated assaults and ‘forcible rapes.’ "
While the rate is still higher when comparing similar categories (around ~700 some odd in the UK vs 340-ish in the US), even this comparison is riddled with holes. In summation, getting an "apples to apples" comparison of the crime rates in both countries is damn near impossible, and the idea that the UK's crime rate is orders of magnitude higher is simply wrong.
Somewhat misleading - I listened to this topic on NPR for the past week (first heard about it Monday - yay/.!). 50% of test cases were successful, so while the vaccine is a good thing to continue to investigate, "very promising" is a bit off as it needs more work. Although, it should also be noted that SIV is a much much more deadly disease than HIV/AIDS.
You do realize that the update also includes patches that never seem to install and continue to try to install until you disable automatic updates, don't you?
Exactly - I got an e Cig, not because I wanted to quit, but because I wanted to quit cigarettes. Nicotine is fantastic for me - I take it with my caffeine and my alcohol, and an eCig makes this a much more viable addiction in the long run.
Mod up - the fancier Blu packs even have a "social" component that makes the pack light up and alert you to other Blu smokers in your general area. Pretty silly, but it does build a "brand" for those that want to use them. I have a regular Blu pack, and it's pretty recognizable.
Patches and gum tend to be a more expensive alternative to cigarettes
Partly true - patches and gum are meant as cessation tools - the initial dosage is meant to meet the smoker with their nicotine intake from cigs, and is generally high. The higher dose gum and patches are quite expensive. However, as you taper off, the price drops accordingly. I've seen local drug stores carrying patches and gum around $20 for a month supply on the lower levels - that's much cheaper than smoking. Also, quitting smoking via these alternatives may match price for a time, but if you successfully quit then you aren't paying for anything, especially health costs later (which are the largest cost to smoking).
Exactly - it's a much cheaper alternative to regular smokes. Here in my state, it's average about $5 a pack. A Blu eCig "starter kit" costs about $70, and comes with a recharging pack (which mimics a real cig pack and has a built-in battery and slots to hold cartridges and an extra battery). It comes with 5 cartridges and two batteries, plus a USB charger and a wall charger, as well as a USB adapter for charging the battery directly as opposed to using the pack. Refills are about $15 for 4 or 5, and each cartridge is roughly 250 puffs. Fairly cheap, especially when considering that you get around 10-12 puffs in an average cig * 20 = 200-240 puffs, while only paying around $3 a "pack" - then total the healthcare costs of smoking long-term and you save a ton.
And we still have the issue of just how complicit the companies were - just b/c the slides mention many a big-name company as being sourced, does not mean they willingly said "Here, have our data." I think we should probably treat it as if they had cooperated until we have evidence that suggests otherwise (beyond them saying "We didn't"). Still, most of what we've heard implies that the NSA planted capture devices on or near-site and captured whether the companies wanted them to or not.
Here was a block of asterisks in the shape of a piece of paper, but the junk filter got me. So, visual funny gone, stupid rant added. Anyways, the whole thing will be mostly black lines and some page numbers, maybe part of some letterhead.
and so on
* Hopefully this will get around the "junk" filter - I mean, I'm displaying a visual representation here,/.. Alas, the technology to differentiate between meaningless spam and an approximation of what a gov't document will look like isn't there yet. Maybe a linked image would do? But no one follows the links
1 & 3, I agree, but based on #2, I'm going to bet that you're white? Don't worry, I am too - it's much easier for us to say we don't see racism as much because we don't have to deal with being judged. I can say, though, that in my state it is alive and well. Our legislature recently enacted many new voting laws that particularly affect the poor and, in our state, the poor mostly means black. We're talking somewhere around three times the unemployment rate of whites as of 2011 (or 12, I can't recall). The new laws include ID laws (IDs aren't necessarily cheap, when it's between that and dinner, and people like a friend of mine were worried about the DMV pulling his record even though you can only be flagged in our state for felonies when you go to get a license), restrictions on early voting hours, closing polling places which feeds into the next one: if you are in line before the polls close, but don't make it into the building when they do, then too bad, no voting for you today.
On top of the redistricting that pretty much lumps blacks into their own districts and whites into another, our state is showing it's old southern colors again.
Oh and blah blah incarceration rates, mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes that disproportionately affect minorities, lack of rehabilitation programs to help those in prison or with drug issues if they don't have money, and terrible public education, even for schools in the nicer neighborhoods here, because anyone with money and a stake in their child's education sends them to private school.
Finally, find your "black friend" and ask them if they think racism is on the downswing of things or suffering from a "case of terminal neglect." Racism doesn't just mean pointy sheets and flaming crosses, or segregated facilities.
When the people who are complaining in the context of the links in the summaries are owners of various groups, who see large amounts of traffic and administer the moderation roles in their groups, it is important to listen. It's even better if you consult with the active and large group leaders before making huge changes to functionality.
btw, not trying to be mean, I sympathize with you - I have complained many a-time about summaries - from grammar, to misleading headlines, to outright incorrect summaries (even cases of the headline being contradictory to content in the summary right below it - wtf, is this Gawker??)
That's the fault of a bad DJ - the order wasn't wrong, the DJ was wrong in picking that order and not having the skill to make it work. Take a look at Flying Lotus' face when he's playing live - from interviews, he claims his tracks are all disorganized, and in the heat of the moment he often can't find what he was looking for and just grabs whatever is there. When you see his face, though, you see that look of "Yes!" because he's managed to work it into the current groove and keep the crowd moving.
Your "wrong order" could be the "right order" in the hands of the right DJ.
LOL if the DJ plays the songs in the wrong order? Sorry, but a DJ's job partly includes being able to play tracks in just about any order - there is no "wrong" order unless the DJ has a set prepared, and even then, the disorganization that accompanies being a party DJ means you're getting requests, missing LPs/CDs/MP3s, deciding that the mood doesn't fit what you prepared, etc. There generally isn't a "right" order, and like a violinist who misses a note, a good DJ will keep going and the audience will never know the difference.
Sorry for all the hate but...SO is generally useful for very specific questions. Some answers apply to general 'how do you do X with Y' but most are "Hi, I have this ton of code and for some reason it's not doing what I thought it would, why not?" That's the point. Many of the 'how do you do X with Y' questions can readily be answered by the documentation for Y, but the first choice for some is to have others just tell them b/c idk - I'd say out of laziness, but creating an account on a website, asking a question, and waiting and sifting through answers seems like more work than just going to jQuery.com and using that little search box.
In the other case, you might glean something useful out of the answer if you aren't the asker, but the problem is likely specific to an application they are developing and you have no context to the code around it. An answer may not look great to you, but it may be just what the asker wanted. If it's the accepted answer, accept it and move along to something that fits what you're trying to do - and if you're just perusing, expect much of what you come across to be "meh" material. If you have a better solution, post it, but don't be upset if it doesn't get accepted over some POS code - know that your answer may help someone else who ends up at that question, but the accepted answer doesn't fit for them. Upvote for you. Yay.
I've hit this so many times...I go back to documentation after I've made substantial changes to a class and test the documentation - often it breaks, and either the docs get updated or the class gets fixed. Caught many-a-bug just doublechecking my work against how I thought it should work.
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What iPhone are you and your friends running? Model makes a big difference - for instance, I'm on the 4. My performance is somewhat choppy at key animation points in the OS, but that's expected. So?
I tried a good 10 times on my 4 before I got it to work - it's not mentioned and an easy bit to miss in the video: as soon as you tap close you have to do the double-tap on the home button and hold the second tap a little longer than a second maybe. The key though is to do this AS SOON as you hit "Cancel." How this person ever came across the flaw is beyond me, but good poking. Someone should hire her for a QA team.
No, if you're hooking up the laptop then you shouldn't be paying for Hulu - just go free. + is for people who want to use an app or non-browser means of watching Hulu.
Hulu+ offers the ability to watch Hulu in places other than the browser. You might get a little head start on new stuff compared to plain 'ol Hulu too. I paid for it for a while - between that and Netflix, and "finding" whatever else I was missing, it was a good deal. I don't mind an ad here and there, and I don't mind paying a monthly fee to make sure there's an app for my Xbox, my phone, etc. The margins are insanely slim for Hulu, and I wouldn't expect any decent quality in their apps (oh, they have to pay to be on some of those devices, too), from just ads.
with the founder of Boost Mobile as the CEO
WHERE YOU AT, DOG? The whole city's behind you!
I struggled a lot with whether to mod you up or reply in hopes of my karma boosting your post up some - someone please mod this up! Unfortunately, you can't count on many a /. reader going to your link, and all you did was dump it - but it is of value:
As Bier put it, "The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports defines a ‘violent crime’ as one of four specific offenses: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault." By contrast, "the British definition includes all ‘crimes against the person,’ including simple assaults, all robberies, and all ‘sexual offenses,’ as opposed to the FBI, which only counts aggravated assaults and ‘forcible rapes.’ "
While the rate is still higher when comparing similar categories (around ~700 some odd in the UK vs 340-ish in the US), even this comparison is riddled with holes. In summation, getting an "apples to apples" comparison of the crime rates in both countries is damn near impossible, and the idea that the UK's crime rate is orders of magnitude higher is simply wrong.
The bases and burning had no place, he was just pointing out the error in the original post. Chill.
Somewhat misleading - I listened to this topic on NPR for the past week (first heard about it Monday - yay /.!). 50% of test cases were successful, so while the vaccine is a good thing to continue to investigate, "very promising" is a bit off as it needs more work. Although, it should also be noted that SIV is a much much more deadly disease than HIV/AIDS.
You do realize that the update also includes patches that never seem to install and continue to try to install until you disable automatic updates, don't you?
Exactly - I got an e Cig, not because I wanted to quit, but because I wanted to quit cigarettes. Nicotine is fantastic for me - I take it with my caffeine and my alcohol, and an eCig makes this a much more viable addiction in the long run.
Mod up - the fancier Blu packs even have a "social" component that makes the pack light up and alert you to other Blu smokers in your general area. Pretty silly, but it does build a "brand" for those that want to use them. I have a regular Blu pack, and it's pretty recognizable.
Patches and gum tend to be a more expensive alternative to cigarettes
Partly true - patches and gum are meant as cessation tools - the initial dosage is meant to meet the smoker with their nicotine intake from cigs, and is generally high. The higher dose gum and patches are quite expensive. However, as you taper off, the price drops accordingly. I've seen local drug stores carrying patches and gum around $20 for a month supply on the lower levels - that's much cheaper than smoking. Also, quitting smoking via these alternatives may match price for a time, but if you successfully quit then you aren't paying for anything, especially health costs later (which are the largest cost to smoking).
Exactly - it's a much cheaper alternative to regular smokes. Here in my state, it's average about $5 a pack. A Blu eCig "starter kit" costs about $70, and comes with a recharging pack (which mimics a real cig pack and has a built-in battery and slots to hold cartridges and an extra battery). It comes with 5 cartridges and two batteries, plus a USB charger and a wall charger, as well as a USB adapter for charging the battery directly as opposed to using the pack. Refills are about $15 for 4 or 5, and each cartridge is roughly 250 puffs. Fairly cheap, especially when considering that you get around 10-12 puffs in an average cig * 20 = 200-240 puffs, while only paying around $3 a "pack" - then total the healthcare costs of smoking long-term and you save a ton.
And we still have the issue of just how complicit the companies were - just b/c the slides mention many a big-name company as being sourced, does not mean they willingly said "Here, have our data." I think we should probably treat it as if they had cooperated until we have evidence that suggests otherwise (beyond them saying "We didn't"). Still, most of what we've heard implies that the NSA planted capture devices on or near-site and captured whether the companies wanted them to or not.
I already know what they're gonna say:
Here was a block of asterisks in the shape of a piece of paper, but the junk filter got me. So, visual funny gone, stupid rant added. Anyways, the whole thing will be mostly black lines and some page numbers, maybe part of some letterhead.
and so on
* Hopefully this will get around the "junk" filter - I mean, I'm displaying a visual representation here, /.. Alas, the technology to differentiate between meaningless spam and an approximation of what a gov't document will look like isn't there yet. Maybe a linked image would do? But no one follows the links
1 & 3, I agree, but based on #2, I'm going to bet that you're white? Don't worry, I am too - it's much easier for us to say we don't see racism as much because we don't have to deal with being judged. I can say, though, that in my state it is alive and well. Our legislature recently enacted many new voting laws that particularly affect the poor and, in our state, the poor mostly means black. We're talking somewhere around three times the unemployment rate of whites as of 2011 (or 12, I can't recall). The new laws include ID laws (IDs aren't necessarily cheap, when it's between that and dinner, and people like a friend of mine were worried about the DMV pulling his record even though you can only be flagged in our state for felonies when you go to get a license), restrictions on early voting hours, closing polling places which feeds into the next one: if you are in line before the polls close, but don't make it into the building when they do, then too bad, no voting for you today.
On top of the redistricting that pretty much lumps blacks into their own districts and whites into another, our state is showing it's old southern colors again.
Oh and blah blah incarceration rates, mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes that disproportionately affect minorities, lack of rehabilitation programs to help those in prison or with drug issues if they don't have money, and terrible public education, even for schools in the nicer neighborhoods here, because anyone with money and a stake in their child's education sends them to private school.
Finally, find your "black friend" and ask them if they think racism is on the downswing of things or suffering from a "case of terminal neglect." Racism doesn't just mean pointy sheets and flaming crosses, or segregated facilities.
When the people who are complaining in the context of the links in the summaries are owners of various groups, who see large amounts of traffic and administer the moderation roles in their groups, it is important to listen. It's even better if you consult with the active and large group leaders before making huge changes to functionality.
btw, not trying to be mean, I sympathize with you - I have complained many a-time about summaries - from grammar, to misleading headlines, to outright incorrect summaries (even cases of the headline being contradictory to content in the summary right below it - wtf, is this Gawker??)
Breaking: Slashdot summary doesn't tell the whole story!
News at 11
That's the fault of a bad DJ - the order wasn't wrong, the DJ was wrong in picking that order and not having the skill to make it work. Take a look at Flying Lotus' face when he's playing live - from interviews, he claims his tracks are all disorganized, and in the heat of the moment he often can't find what he was looking for and just grabs whatever is there. When you see his face, though, you see that look of "Yes!" because he's managed to work it into the current groove and keep the crowd moving.
Your "wrong order" could be the "right order" in the hands of the right DJ.
Then there's the Microsoft release cycle:
- Crap
- Alpha
- Crap
- Alpha
- Crap
- Alpha
- Crap
Wrong, it's
- Crap
- Production
- Crap
- Production
- Crap
- Production
- Crap
- Production
- Crap
- Production
You can actually use the two interchangeably, or just replace them both with "Polished Turd" in most cases
LOL if the DJ plays the songs in the wrong order? Sorry, but a DJ's job partly includes being able to play tracks in just about any order - there is no "wrong" order unless the DJ has a set prepared, and even then, the disorganization that accompanies being a party DJ means you're getting requests, missing LPs/CDs/MP3s, deciding that the mood doesn't fit what you prepared, etc. There generally isn't a "right" order, and like a violinist who misses a note, a good DJ will keep going and the audience will never know the difference.
Or The Smiths, Stone Roses, Depeche Mode...ok, really just Morrissey.
Sorry for all the hate but...SO is generally useful for very specific questions. Some answers apply to general 'how do you do X with Y' but most are "Hi, I have this ton of code and for some reason it's not doing what I thought it would, why not?" That's the point. Many of the 'how do you do X with Y' questions can readily be answered by the documentation for Y, but the first choice for some is to have others just tell them b/c idk - I'd say out of laziness, but creating an account on a website, asking a question, and waiting and sifting through answers seems like more work than just going to jQuery.com and using that little search box.
In the other case, you might glean something useful out of the answer if you aren't the asker, but the problem is likely specific to an application they are developing and you have no context to the code around it. An answer may not look great to you, but it may be just what the asker wanted. If it's the accepted answer, accept it and move along to something that fits what you're trying to do - and if you're just perusing, expect much of what you come across to be "meh" material. If you have a better solution, post it, but don't be upset if it doesn't get accepted over some POS code - know that your answer may help someone else who ends up at that question, but the accepted answer doesn't fit for them. Upvote for you. Yay.
plus you know your examples actually work.
I've hit this so many times...I go back to documentation after I've made substantial changes to a class and test the documentation - often it breaks, and either the docs get updated or the class gets fixed. Caught many-a-bug just doublechecking my work against how I thought it should work.