Holy cow, I clicked "reply to this" and I got a textarea I can type in!
Not sure if that's a joke, but I've had that for a year or more. Maybe because I chose to use the Beta interface in preferences, then forgot I'd done it.
In hindsight, Bill and Ted 3 really should have given it away as fake, but I thought perhaps he'd mellowed in his disgust that it's often what people associate him with the most.
He also has more money than pretty much anyone else in the world. It's good he's doing those things, but he is very much a businessman, one who created and ran a company using anti-competitive practices and locking people into some really shitty software. I approve of any charity work he does, but I still think he's a douche. And when are that mega-rich, it's easy to give even billions to charity and not feel that your wallet is any lighter.
I still stand by what I said. If I wanted to be extremely cynical, I could say that Bill Gates needs all the positive publicity, not to mention customers, that he can get.. though I'd hope that he feels rich enough by now and doesn't feel the need to save third world countries just so that he can suck money out of them.
Possibly. Many people are too stupid to even find Facebook though, so if all the games moved they might be unable to find them. There was a hilarious incident a couple of years ago where the number 1 Google result for "Facebook" was a news article about Facebook. The comments were littered with thousands of comments saying stuff like "the new Facebook login screen sucks, bring back the old one!".
Imagine if you could design a computer where you didn't have to worry about losing power for a short period of time because once the power returned, the entire contents of RAM would still be there and you could just resume where it left off.
I have one of those at work, I call it a laptop (well, a netbook). We had a power cut for a while last week, some of the UPSes ran out, but my netbook was fine:)
And it would mean you didn't have to ensure that your laptop was suspended before battery runs out, and you don't lose what you were working on in case the battery does run out while suspended.
Use hibernate instead of suspend. Admittedly hibernation has been pretty buggy on some of the OS/laptop combinations I've had over the years.
I do think this stuff would be very cool for power savings when the machine is in use though.
Eh, I'm not going to try and quit while it's still serving a useful purpose. I should probably cut down my frequency of checking for messages though, or just enable Facebook notifications on my phone so that I can just glance at it instead of visiting Facebook.com. I already found out what time we're out training tonight, so I probably won't visit so much this afternoon.
I understand these games would not have had the success they are enjoying without Facebook
I think that is the key point. Facebook needs to be able to turn a decent profit to survive, and they are the ones providing the users for these games. If the developers don't like the 30% policy, they're free to go elsewhere.. and have no players.
I'm addicted to Facebook without playing the games. You could say I'm addicted despite the games and apps. The last time I clicked on an app, it seemed to be malware, constantly reloading, presumably posting lots of crap on my friends' walls or something. I'm happy with just the ability to send messages/organise events, share links and photos.
I honestly can't think of any time I have thought 'I wish I had faster broadband'. In fact, I could upgrade to fibre for not much extra but I don't feel the need.
My flatmate upgraded us to a 16Mb-down/8Mb-up line and still talks of improving the speed. I don't see the point right now. He says stuff like "but what if you're streaming a movie and I'm playing Warcraft while also downloading shows on iTunes" type of thing, but I'm happy with our current speeds for my own usage.
I can imagine future MMOs and better quality video streaming would be good uses of fast connections, but right now I think a lot of people will feel the same as us, that online services still need to catch up to the capabilities of our connection speeds before there's any point in upgrading further. I'm happy for early adopters to keep driving connection speeds up, and pay a premium for it, but right now I'm happy with a connection that's fast enough to stream an HD movie or two.
I think due to its vast size and rural areas the US is always going to be lagging behind smaller countries in the latest network technology.
I'd much rather see a comparison and insight into why Asian countries are so far ahead of the relatively small and well off European nations. There must be some key cultural differences.
Isn't the whole point that the earth in general is warming? One country getting colder while the rest of the earth gets warmer is not 'balance'.
The UK is predicted to initially get much colder winters with global warmng, due to disruption of the Gulf Stream (which is a warm current that comes past the UK from warmer southern waters).
Ghost in the Shell is a lot more serious than the typical anime you see on American TV. My favourite TV show of all time is actually the first season of the Ghost in the Shell TV show. It's kind of like the X Files, but oriented around technology than paranormal activity, with a lot of politics and philosophical dialogue.
Definitely. If you don't watch The Matrix this year, we'll have to revoke your geek card;)
Thanks:) I noticed Henry's Crime in the cinema listings recently but didn't realise he was even in it, let alone wrote/produced it, will have to go see it this week.
As for him not being sad, it's good if he's not, though he certainly seems quite introspective and thoughtful, and there has been some heavy stuff in his life that would make anyone sad every now and then. Growing up without a dad, best friend dying, baby dying.. a lot of people have to deal with one or two of those things, but not many have to deal with it all. Considering how private he is, I don't think he's likely to talk about such things on a 2 bit news program.
The first movie was a lot more coherent and focused, no doubt about it. Many people still found it confusing, but I suspect most geeks "got it" the first time they saw it. It is worlds better than the sequels, and probably anyone who has seen it would tell you it's a must see. It really is very good.
I don't know if you consider Anime as a valid art form, but the The Matrix pays homage to the Ghost in the Shell universe, especially the first movie.
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Holy cow, I clicked "reply to this" and I got a textarea I can type in!
Not sure if that's a joke, but I've had that for a year or more. Maybe because I chose to use the Beta interface in preferences, then forgot I'd done it.
I was meaning "why you would actually want" as in a colloquial form of "why anybody would actually want", maybe I should be more explicit though..
Waaaaaaaaaaah. Like what? Curved corners? I like it. Seems much snappier on my phone than before. Yet to try it on a PC.
Wut? It always worked for me before.
On another note: Somersault likes this.
In hindsight, Bill and Ted 3 really should have given it away as fake, but I thought perhaps he'd mellowed in his disgust that it's often what people associate him with the most.
He also has more money than pretty much anyone else in the world. It's good he's doing those things, but he is very much a businessman, one who created and ran a company using anti-competitive practices and locking people into some really shitty software. I approve of any charity work he does, but I still think he's a douche. And when are that mega-rich, it's easy to give even billions to charity and not feel that your wallet is any lighter.
I still stand by what I said. If I wanted to be extremely cynical, I could say that Bill Gates needs all the positive publicity, not to mention customers, that he can get.. though I'd hope that he feels rich enough by now and doesn't feel the need to save third world countries just so that he can suck money out of them.
Yes, that was the whole point of the semantic nonsense of forking Oracle rather than forking OpenOffice :P
Well, it is a lot easier to lay a cable in a swamp than over or around mountains :P
Possibly. Many people are too stupid to even find Facebook though, so if all the games moved they might be unable to find them. There was a hilarious incident a couple of years ago where the number 1 Google result for "Facebook" was a news article about Facebook. The comments were littered with thousands of comments saying stuff like "the new Facebook login screen sucks, bring back the old one!".
A fork in this case is a wonderful solution to a death by stagnation caused by proprietary idiocy from Oracle.
Exactly. If the source was closed, we'd maybe have to find a whole new Office suite, but this way we can just fork Oracle and move on.
Imagine if you could design a computer where you didn't have to worry about losing power for a short period of time because once the power returned, the entire contents of RAM would still be there and you could just resume where it left off.
I have one of those at work, I call it a laptop (well, a netbook). We had a power cut for a while last week, some of the UPSes ran out, but my netbook was fine :)
And it would mean you didn't have to ensure that your laptop was suspended before battery runs out, and you don't lose what you were working on in case the battery does run out while suspended.
Use hibernate instead of suspend. Admittedly hibernation has been pretty buggy on some of the OS/laptop combinations I've had over the years.
I do think this stuff would be very cool for power savings when the machine is in use though.
Why you would actually want to use USB rather than SATA or eSATA is beyond me though. Maybe USB3 in the short term.
Eh, I'm not going to try and quit while it's still serving a useful purpose. I should probably cut down my frequency of checking for messages though, or just enable Facebook notifications on my phone so that I can just glance at it instead of visiting Facebook.com. I already found out what time we're out training tonight, so I probably won't visit so much this afternoon.
I understand these games would not have had the success they are enjoying without Facebook
I think that is the key point. Facebook needs to be able to turn a decent profit to survive, and they are the ones providing the users for these games. If the developers don't like the 30% policy, they're free to go elsewhere.. and have no players.
I'm addicted to Facebook without playing the games. You could say I'm addicted despite the games and apps. The last time I clicked on an app, it seemed to be malware, constantly reloading, presumably posting lots of crap on my friends' walls or something. I'm happy with just the ability to send messages/organise events, share links and photos.
Again I wonder if that's due to cable installation being relatively easy and cheap due to the extremely flat landscape, or if it's driven by demand?
I honestly can't think of any time I have thought 'I wish I had faster broadband'. In fact, I could upgrade to fibre for not much extra but I don't feel the need.
My flatmate upgraded us to a 16Mb-down/8Mb-up line and still talks of improving the speed. I don't see the point right now. He says stuff like "but what if you're streaming a movie and I'm playing Warcraft while also downloading shows on iTunes" type of thing, but I'm happy with our current speeds for my own usage.
I can imagine future MMOs and better quality video streaming would be good uses of fast connections, but right now I think a lot of people will feel the same as us, that online services still need to catch up to the capabilities of our connection speeds before there's any point in upgrading further. I'm happy for early adopters to keep driving connection speeds up, and pay a premium for it, but right now I'm happy with a connection that's fast enough to stream an HD movie or two.
It's not that difficult, it's just expensive.
I like in the UK btw. Even in rural areas here connection speeds lag behind a lot, so it must be a nightmare in small towns in the US.
I think due to its vast size and rural areas the US is always going to be lagging behind smaller countries in the latest network technology.
I'd much rather see a comparison and insight into why Asian countries are so far ahead of the relatively small and well off European nations. There must be some key cultural differences.
Isn't the whole point that the earth in general is warming? One country getting colder while the rest of the earth gets warmer is not 'balance'.
The UK is predicted to initially get much colder winters with global warmng, due to disruption of the Gulf Stream (which is a warm current that comes past the UK from warmer southern waters).
Considering these guys think of suicide as a good thing, I don't see how they'd be that worried about their family dying as martyrs..
Ghost in the Shell is a lot more serious than the typical anime you see on American TV. My favourite TV show of all time is actually the first season of the Ghost in the Shell TV show. It's kind of like the X Files, but oriented around technology than paranormal activity, with a lot of politics and philosophical dialogue.
Definitely. If you don't watch The Matrix this year, we'll have to revoke your geek card ;)
Thanks :) I noticed Henry's Crime in the cinema listings recently but didn't realise he was even in it, let alone wrote/produced it, will have to go see it this week.
As for him not being sad, it's good if he's not, though he certainly seems quite introspective and thoughtful, and there has been some heavy stuff in his life that would make anyone sad every now and then. Growing up without a dad, best friend dying, baby dying.. a lot of people have to deal with one or two of those things, but not many have to deal with it all. Considering how private he is, I don't think he's likely to talk about such things on a 2 bit news program.
Someone should do something about these trees stealing all our carbon dioxides.
The first movie was a lot more coherent and focused, no doubt about it. Many people still found it confusing, but I suspect most geeks "got it" the first time they saw it. It is worlds better than the sequels, and probably anyone who has seen it would tell you it's a must see. It really is very good.
I don't know if you consider Anime as a valid art form, but the The Matrix pays homage to the Ghost in the Shell universe, especially the first movie.
Okie dokie. I was just making a joke. I am pretty hopeless when it comes to news, let alone international news.
For future reference I think you meant "casualty", rather than "causality"