I gotta start reading those Monday morning emails.
I had a look in the trusty OED, and the earliest listed usage of literally in that sense was actually 1769. Who would've thunk?
The movie on the other hand, is pretty forgettable... its very much a 70s movie.
It's all taste, I suppose, but the '70s was a fantastic film era IMO. It was the era where Hollywood embraced subversion to government and corporations, encapsulated by such films as Network, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, MASH, Dog Day Afternoon, and, of course, The Life Of Brian.
I haven't seen Charly, but calling it "very much a 70s movie" is high praise indeed!
Ex-audio engineer here. As far as we can get away with it, audio engineers never let (artists|A and R|managers) mix anything. I've heard of engineers giving them a dummy fader, which controls "compression", and letting them play with that placebo.
No, sorry, I didn't mean to suggest the devs were unethical. And yes, it seems that we both define "unethical" as "pro-privacy":)
You might be right that it's a bug. However, in this case, it still polls extremely regularly even if I *don't* restrict the permissions. So I think that even if it gets the location, it still polls this frequently.
Okay, thanks for the response and candidness. Despite the brain drain, I suppose Swype is fairly mature anyway.
Since I have a rooted phone, I can deny Swype internet access and be comfortable that I'm not being tracked, but I was more concerned that I was supporting an unethical company. However, I've already paid, so I suppose it doesn't make any difference.
Good luck with Dryft. I don't have a tablet, but it looks pretty nifty!
Yes, I get the same looking at those permissions. I'm not sure why the disparity with App ops. Unless it's because I have Privacy Guard "Enabled by default" for new apps, which means that those permissions are automatically denied whether they are requested or not.
Disclosure: I worked at Swype 2 years ago. I left 6 months after the buyout. At that time we didn't make any requests for location.
I'm not sure how much you can disclose, but there seems to be a general discontent with Nuance and their level of competence since the takeover. I was wondering if you can shed any light on this, and the future development of Swype.
I think Android in general needs to be more granular with permissions- I should be able to turn on and off permissions by app, and the OS should return a reasonable default or throw an exception if the permission isn't granted.
That's one of the advantages of Cyanogenmod (and presumably other custom ROMs). Hopefully this feature will roll out into most ROMs one day.
Thanks for the tip. I just installed Multiling Keyboard, and it looks like it is similarly invasive in terms of permissions, but since it doesn't need network permissions, I guess it should be okay.
Good points. I'm from Australia, and AFAIK we don't tend to use CGNAT. (Is that common in the US?)
Also, I'm not sure if they'd consider a private home server to be a "publicly visible" servers. Probably, if they can charge you business-plan rates instead.
With all the NSA revelations, I have a prediction that one day we'll be able to buy pre-built Pi-esqe home servers to use as an email server, cloud storage, etc., in a bid to totally de-centralise it all. Or maybe people just won't care, like most do now.:/
FWIW I use a (very cheap) raspberry pi as my home server. A stock standard internet access plan does fine, although doesn't give me static IP. That's not a big deal, as I just run a cron job to email me when it changes.
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GIMP is very feature-rich already and to me seems to be in the stage where change is more incremental.
The single feature that prevents my wife from moving from Mac/Photoshop to Linux/GIMP is the lack of adjustment layers. This is the ability to non-destructively modify brightness/contrast/colour/etc. In GIMP, if you edit the contrast, then edit in another way, there is no way to re-manipulate the contrast again without losing information. As per the summary, Krita does have this capability. Apperently it's in development for GIMP.
It's really a logical conclusion of capitalism. We throw money at these corporations, and their amount of representation is proportional to our monetary endorsement.
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Slashdot sig boxes are far too short.
Nice sig.
I need a new phone. :/
My Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod loses about 30% of battery in an hour using GPS guidance.
on the street a smartphone can do what no fitness tracker can: track how far you are walking/running
Because GPS is a massive battery suck?
FWIW KDE does this out of the box too.
I gotta start reading those Monday morning emails. I had a look in the trusty OED, and the earliest listed usage of literally in that sense was actually 1769. Who would've thunk?
Oh. Well, that was a little too sophisticated for me.
Now I can literally watch another formerly decent channel turn to shit.
"Literally." I don't think that word means what you think it does.
I hate Steam for doing this. All those fucking cards and coupons in my inventory and no option to just delete them.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/trashbot
The movie on the other hand, is pretty forgettable... its very much a 70s movie.
It's all taste, I suppose, but the '70s was a fantastic film era IMO. It was the era where Hollywood embraced subversion to government and corporations, encapsulated by such films as Network, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, MASH, Dog Day Afternoon, and, of course, The Life Of Brian.
I haven't seen Charly, but calling it "very much a 70s movie" is high praise indeed!
Ex-audio engineer here. As far as we can get away with it, audio engineers never let (artists|A and R|managers) mix anything. I've heard of engineers giving them a dummy fader, which controls "compression", and letting them play with that placebo.
No, sorry, I didn't mean to suggest the devs were unethical. And yes, it seems that we both define "unethical" as "pro-privacy" :)
You might be right that it's a bug. However, in this case, it still polls extremely regularly even if I *don't* restrict the permissions. So I think that even if it gets the location, it still polls this frequently.
Okay, thanks for the response and candidness. Despite the brain drain, I suppose Swype is fairly mature anyway.
Since I have a rooted phone, I can deny Swype internet access and be comfortable that I'm not being tracked, but I was more concerned that I was supporting an unethical company. However, I've already paid, so I suppose it doesn't make any difference.
Good luck with Dryft. I don't have a tablet, but it looks pretty nifty!
Yes, I get the same looking at those permissions. I'm not sure why the disparity with App ops. Unless it's because I have Privacy Guard "Enabled by default" for new apps, which means that those permissions are automatically denied whether they are requested or not.
Disclosure: I worked at Swype 2 years ago. I left 6 months after the buyout. At that time we didn't make any requests for location.
I'm not sure how much you can disclose, but there seems to be a general discontent with Nuance and their level of competence since the takeover. I was wondering if you can shed any light on this, and the future development of Swype.
I think Android in general needs to be more granular with permissions- I should be able to turn on and off permissions by app, and the OS should return a reasonable default or throw an exception if the permission isn't granted.
That's one of the advantages of Cyanogenmod (and presumably other custom ROMs). Hopefully this feature will roll out into most ROMs one day.
No worries. I'm glad I could help.
Thanks for the tip. I just installed Multiling Keyboard, and it looks like it is similarly invasive in terms of permissions, but since it doesn't need network permissions, I guess it should be okay.
Yes, sorry, a few people picked up on this. I just got that info from the Wikipedia page. I should have checked the source.
Yes, sorry, you are absolutely right. I just got that info from the Wikipedia page. I should have checked the source.
Unlike what the summary claims, Swype is not available on Windows Phone.
Sorry, you are absolutely right. I just got that info from the Wikipedia page. I should have checked the source.
I just went through the Swype settings to see where "Regional Dialects" is configured, and I don't see it.
It's actually called "Living Language". It's under "My Words" in the settings.
Good points. I'm from Australia, and AFAIK we don't tend to use CGNAT. (Is that common in the US?)
Also, I'm not sure if they'd consider a private home server to be a "publicly visible" servers. Probably, if they can charge you business-plan rates instead.
With all the NSA revelations, I have a prediction that one day we'll be able to buy pre-built Pi-esqe home servers to use as an email server, cloud storage, etc., in a bid to totally de-centralise it all. Or maybe people just won't care, like most do now. :/
FWIW I use a (very cheap) raspberry pi as my home server. A stock standard internet access plan does fine, although doesn't give me static IP. That's not a big deal, as I just run a cron job to email me when it changes.
GIMP is very feature-rich already and to me seems to be in the stage where change is more incremental.
The single feature that prevents my wife from moving from Mac/Photoshop to Linux/GIMP is the lack of adjustment layers. This is the ability to non-destructively modify brightness/contrast/colour/etc. In GIMP, if you edit the contrast, then edit in another way, there is no way to re-manipulate the contrast again without losing information. As per the summary, Krita does have this capability. Apperently it's in development for GIMP.
It's really a logical conclusion of capitalism. We throw money at these corporations, and their amount of representation is proportional to our monetary endorsement.
Sorry, I was being unclear. I was implying that the Slashdot summary was incorrect. (Which is probably no news.)