THIS! Oh god this! I hate this "feature" so much. You can even get angry at people IMing you for not allowing you to open a menu before a message arrives. (angry only relatively, that is. Never told them about my frustration.) It's really annoying and unnecessary. Fortunately I am mostly using kupfer for launching stuff (I still find it really superior to krunner) Is this even reported?
Very true. Google and the rest has never, ever manage to offer anything of interest. Despite having datamined all my email that clearly identifies my tastes and needs. They just keep offering me dedicated servers. All the time. Or some sort of cloud rental service stuff. I don't get it, and I don't want it either. I don't even talk about servers or anything...And I am definitely not a webdev.
One country blocks PB, and a lot follow. It's like they can't think by themselves so they need others to make way for their stupid decisions, so they are encouraged to censor and butch the world in the name of "piracy".
It's like my country that started a CISPA-like law before the US did, and then the US did, infallibly, after a few weeks. Best thing. We got the highest unemployment rate in Europe, with numbers that are ridiculous. Yet, they worry about piracy instead.
I bet India's mid/low-class suffering is also ignored in behalf of "entertainment" as well (when was the last time those companies managed to entertain me, I don't know). Entertainment makes us happier (at times) and gives us things to talk about. But it's definitely not what matters in the big picture. I'd rather be able to feed myself than to watch a new Hollywood hit, or play a fucking EA game. At what point in time we gave extreme priority to Big Media so they have the power to actually affect our freedom? Because people (in suits) spewing out movies and music and videogames should not have this kind of power. They should only need to entertain us. Yet, they command more than governments.
Actually, one of the splash screens of the 2.7.x branch did actually put the GIMP mascot into a gimp suit. Which bothers me, because they are aware of the connotations but still adhering to it like kids who think they are funny.
I had issues with Pulseaudio on default Ubuntu installs...2-3 years ago. Seriously, it got much better and latency is much lower now. Never had a sound issue since Ubuntu 10.4 or so.
Actually I'd feel less horrified about a robot (an inert machine) patting down the kid. Kids find robots cool*, and robots can't get a boner from touching my girl. Not saying that TSA screeners are pedos, but I have no warrant of the opposite either. I'd be suspicious of someone so eager to touch a kid, for sure. Specially when there are alternatives.
God d*mn, man. That DOES suck, a lot. For the record, I *can* think of a lot of uses for such a board (I want to power-mod my cheap android WM8650 tablet, and that's exactly what I need!). I would have donated. I'd love to know if you are able to get it up. I am not in a position for hefty donations but I sure will try to help, or purchase the end product.
Do you realize that a warning is for average users to ignore? "Oh, wow. I should upgrade as soon as I get the opportunity" only works for people like us. Most people will do "CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL".
The 2-years requisite existed for at least a decade, it's not new. Apple was not complying with the law until forced. For the rest of the world that usually means breaking the law.
Either way, smartphones, specially Apple's smartphones, are already quite expensive. Besides, doesn't Apple go with the promise of "better quality"? I assumed that was why the premium price.
I think the news, more than "Apple complies with the law" is more like "Apple just started to comply with the law". Which considering their age as manufacturers, it's horribly high.
It's like if a serial killer just promised to stop killing people. He shouldn't have begun on the first place.
So are you saying that because I don't like it (I certainly didn't purchase any game this latest generation), I should make an one-man-war to fix it? Am I really to blame, knowing I boycotted these guys actively since they started doing this crap? (And I mean real boycott, that is, not purchasing their stuff, not pirating their stuff, not even wanting their stuff) Am I really to blame knowing that arcade-style games of old are dead forever and thus the industry has nothing that interests me at all? Hence receives zero money from me? Or are you telling me that I should be educating the younger generations? Fuck that. And then I realize your post is rubbish because of the use of "war against the working class".
The working class can very well self-destroy it itself. There is no war, there are only greedy companies ready to harvest the fruits of our collective stupidity. I wonder, why can't people do the same thing I did? It's not hard. In fact, because you save your hard-earned cash and time, it's easier on the long run. I have been playing games all my life, but I just can't see the appeal of newer games since the PS3 times, so I don't pay for them (And I don't pirate them either, because why should I waste bandwidth downloading something that is not interesting, not to mention humongous in size?)
If people are freaking addicts that can't resist to throw money at a Mass Effect (You might say it's a great game. But any game that puts a final boss battle like that, just doesn't deserve my respect.) so be it. I just can't consider me a gamer anymore. Not even "hardcore". Bah.
Greed will be the ultimate downfall of gaming. We are heading there quick.
The only bad thing about those things is that they only "refund" you. That is, you need to pay first. If the amount happened to be bigger than what you can pay... I am not risking having a phone operator charge me something I can't pay. I'll stick to prepaid.
Well, Europe and SOPA can be easily related. We got a SOPA-prototype in Spain, the "Sinde Law". It was approved and started during a change of government, in a very sneaky fashion and after initial resistance when it was attempted to pass for the first time. Some other reply says that Europeans submit to tyranny...nope, it's imposed on us, that's why it's tyranny! It might be the US pressuring EU to do this, but I feel like I can rightly blame EU politicians because their will was weak and they submitted way too easily.
I can only speak for Android, since I don't own an iDevice, but the market is so saturated with ad-driven apps that it reminds me of windows some years ago, where everything was adware or shareware. Being from a Linux world where you get pretty much free (in both meanings) access to tools and programs, check/edit the source and other things, Android feels like a wild jungle, so closed and just feels like it's kind of hostile to the user, somehow. Besides, you are getting ad-based versions of paid apps as "FREE" most of the time. So you are paying with ad revenue and purchases. I bet there are paid apps with ads as well.
So in your ideal world, AppleTV is a console capable of moving state-of-the-art (or at least PS3-quality) games and the Raspberry PI is not a complete product...yeah, right.
Entropy-powered LEDs? from TFA: [...]instead took advantage of small amounts of excess heat to emit more power than consumed. This heat arises from vibrations in the deviceâ(TM)s atomic lattice, which occur due to entropy.
I only remember one crash myself, and that was in early 2005-2006 or somewhere around there, the crash was actually a recognized bug that was fixed the day after. Other than that, my experience is the same as yours, never had any issue with the binary blobs at all, and my computer is a messy overheated piece of junk made with scrap parts over time, so yeah.
Just for the record, I usually jump to text mode regularly when I screw up programming and I get X unresponsive, and going to term (tty terms not xterms, of course) and killing the wild app and returning to X always works as expected (which is correctly). I remember it caused issues on gentoo circa 2007-8 if you had the X drivers and the framebuffer drivers active at a time, and it could sort of corrupt output when going back and forth from console to X, but that was already labeled as not safe in the config files anyway...
An IM client such as pidgin that I can trust to not passing my messages to some third server would be awesome. All the current Android IM options feel kind of dubious somehow, I am using Meebo because it's at least familiar-sounding and used them in the past without getting loads of spam or something. I'd love pidgin...even Finch would do.
I know libpurple has been ported, but nobody has stepped forward to write an interface to it (or an OTR plugin)
I doubt the jammer device would be considerate enough to restrict its area of effect to the bus. There might be people you don't see being affected by the jammer, people using their phones silently, people using their phones for actual important stuff.
Someone with a jammer is just a little delinquent with too much self-entitlement. Pretty much the radio equivalent of a script kid.
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Wait, you mean all those news about his death, claiming he was the inventor of computing, are not to be believed!? (/sarcasm)
The story talks about a long game. Not a good game.
THIS! Oh god this! I hate this "feature" so much. You can even get angry at people IMing you for not allowing you to open a menu before a message arrives. (angry only relatively, that is. Never told them about my frustration.)
It's really annoying and unnecessary. Fortunately I am mostly using kupfer for launching stuff (I still find it really superior to krunner)
Is this even reported?
Very true. Google and the rest has never, ever manage to offer anything of interest. Despite having datamined all my email that clearly identifies my tastes and needs.
They just keep offering me dedicated servers. All the time. Or some sort of cloud rental service stuff. I don't get it, and I don't want it either. I don't even talk about servers or anything...And I am definitely not a webdev.
One country blocks PB, and a lot follow. It's like they can't think by themselves so they need others to make way for their stupid decisions, so they are encouraged to censor and butch the world in the name of "piracy".
It's like my country that started a CISPA-like law before the US did, and then the US did, infallibly, after a few weeks.
Best thing. We got the highest unemployment rate in Europe, with numbers that are ridiculous. Yet, they worry about piracy instead.
I bet India's mid/low-class suffering is also ignored in behalf of "entertainment" as well (when was the last time those companies managed to entertain me, I don't know).
Entertainment makes us happier (at times) and gives us things to talk about. But it's definitely not what matters in the big picture. I'd rather be able to feed myself than to watch a new Hollywood hit, or play a fucking EA game.
At what point in time we gave extreme priority to Big Media so they have the power to actually affect our freedom? Because people (in suits) spewing out movies and music and videogames should not have this kind of power. They should only need to entertain us. Yet, they command more than governments.
Actually, one of the splash screens of the 2.7.x branch did actually put the GIMP mascot into a gimp suit.
Which bothers me, because they are aware of the connotations but still adhering to it like kids who think they are funny.
I had issues with Pulseaudio on default Ubuntu installs...2-3 years ago.
Seriously, it got much better and latency is much lower now. Never had a sound issue since Ubuntu 10.4 or so.
The more things away from Google, the better.
Actually I'd feel less horrified about a robot (an inert machine) patting down the kid. Kids find robots cool*, and robots can't get a boner from touching my girl. Not saying that TSA screeners are pedos, but I have no warrant of the opposite either.
I'd be suspicious of someone so eager to touch a kid, for sure. Specially when there are alternatives.
God d*mn, man. That DOES suck, a lot.
For the record, I *can* think of a lot of uses for such a board (I want to power-mod my cheap android WM8650 tablet, and that's exactly what I need!). I would have donated. I'd love to know if you are able to get it up. I am not in a position for hefty donations but I sure will try to help, or purchase the end product.
"Slashdot hates Java because they hate anything that isn't Pure GNU open source."
So how do you explain the massive influx of Apple lovers?
Do you realize that a warning is for average users to ignore? "Oh, wow. I should upgrade as soon as I get the opportunity" only works for people like us. Most people will do "CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL".
The 2-years requisite existed for at least a decade, it's not new. Apple was not complying with the law until forced. For the rest of the world that usually means breaking the law.
Either way, smartphones, specially Apple's smartphones, are already quite expensive. Besides, doesn't Apple go with the promise of "better quality"? I assumed that was why the premium price.
I think the news, more than "Apple complies with the law" is more like "Apple just started to comply with the law". Which considering their age as manufacturers, it's horribly high.
It's like if a serial killer just promised to stop killing people. He shouldn't have begun on the first place.
So are you saying that because I don't like it (I certainly didn't purchase any game this latest generation), I should make an one-man-war to fix it? Am I really to blame, knowing I boycotted these guys actively since they started doing this crap? (And I mean real boycott, that is, not purchasing their stuff, not pirating their stuff, not even wanting their stuff)
Am I really to blame knowing that arcade-style games of old are dead forever and thus the industry has nothing that interests me at all? Hence receives zero money from me?
Or are you telling me that I should be educating the younger generations? Fuck that.
And then I realize your post is rubbish because of the use of "war against the working class".
The working class can very well self-destroy it itself. There is no war, there are only greedy companies ready to harvest the fruits of our collective stupidity.
I wonder, why can't people do the same thing I did? It's not hard. In fact, because you save your hard-earned cash and time, it's easier on the long run. I have been playing games all my life, but I just can't see the appeal of newer games since the PS3 times, so I don't pay for them (And I don't pirate them either, because why should I waste bandwidth downloading something that is not interesting, not to mention humongous in size?)
If people are freaking addicts that can't resist to throw money at a Mass Effect (You might say it's a great game. But any game that puts a final boss battle like that, just doesn't deserve my respect.) so be it. I just can't consider me a gamer anymore. Not even "hardcore". Bah.
Greed will be the ultimate downfall of gaming. We are heading there quick.
The only bad thing about those things is that they only "refund" you. That is, you need to pay first. If the amount happened to be bigger than what you can pay...
I am not risking having a phone operator charge me something I can't pay. I'll stick to prepaid.
Well, Europe and SOPA can be easily related. We got a SOPA-prototype in Spain, the "Sinde Law". It was approved and started during a change of government, in a very sneaky fashion and after initial resistance when it was attempted to pass for the first time.
Some other reply says that Europeans submit to tyranny...nope, it's imposed on us, that's why it's tyranny!
It might be the US pressuring EU to do this, but I feel like I can rightly blame EU politicians because their will was weak and they submitted way too easily.
I can only speak for Android, since I don't own an iDevice, but the market is so saturated with ad-driven apps that it reminds me of windows some years ago, where everything was adware or shareware.
Being from a Linux world where you get pretty much free (in both meanings) access to tools and programs, check/edit the source and other things, Android feels like a wild jungle, so closed and just feels like it's kind of hostile to the user, somehow.
Besides, you are getting ad-based versions of paid apps as "FREE" most of the time. So you are paying with ad revenue and purchases. I bet there are paid apps with ads as well.
So in your ideal world, AppleTV is a console capable of moving state-of-the-art (or at least PS3-quality) games and the Raspberry PI is not a complete product...yeah, right.
Entropy-powered LEDs?
from TFA:
[...]instead took advantage of small amounts of excess heat to emit more power than consumed. This heat arises from vibrations in the deviceâ(TM)s atomic lattice, which occur due to entropy.
I only remember one crash myself, and that was in early 2005-2006 or somewhere around there, the crash was actually a recognized bug that was fixed the day after.
Other than that, my experience is the same as yours, never had any issue with the binary blobs at all, and my computer is a messy overheated piece of junk made with scrap parts over time, so yeah.
Just for the record, I usually jump to text mode regularly when I screw up programming and I get X unresponsive, and going to term (tty terms not xterms, of course) and killing the wild app and returning to X always works as expected (which is correctly).
I remember it caused issues on gentoo circa 2007-8 if you had the X drivers and the framebuffer drivers active at a time, and it could sort of corrupt output when going back and forth from console to X, but that was already labeled as not safe in the config files anyway...
That is great. Oh, and good luck with that job!
I'd love you forever.
An IM client such as pidgin that I can trust to not passing my messages to some third server would be awesome. All the current Android IM options feel kind of dubious somehow, I am using Meebo because it's at least familiar-sounding and used them in the past without getting loads of spam or something. I'd love pidgin...even Finch would do.
I know libpurple has been ported, but nobody has stepped forward to write an interface to it (or an OTR plugin)
I doubt the jammer device would be considerate enough to restrict its area of effect to the bus. There might be people you don't see being affected by the jammer, people using their phones silently, people using their phones for actual important stuff.
Someone with a jammer is just a little delinquent with too much self-entitlement. Pretty much the radio equivalent of a script kid.