If you could show numbers for phone with replaceable parts and show that it didn't sell, sure I would agree with you but since there's none on the market you just have no idea what the market is for those that want it, only the market for those that don't care. Sure it's popular but it do not mean that you're not missing out on even more. So no, not anything reliable. Personally, the only smartphone I bought had a replaceable battery, an SD card slot and a physical (landscape, sorry Blackberry) keyboard and of course it's old and I would like to change it but until someone offer an interesting product they just won't get my money. You're probably right that I'm alone in this but until you have real numbers to compare to you just don't know.
Sorry for the late reply, I thought slashdot would send me an email on reply (yes, the setting is still enabled, not sure what happened).
But no, the "walking space" argument do not work because there exists cubicle with wall on just the desk area - it do not takes any walkway space, and otherwise you could still have 3 walls but have it stop at the back of your butt when you're sat at your desk, and the space saved would be pretty small. Even in a high rent city, how much would you be saving, really?
Yes, you save on the furniture cost by having a huge table vs individual desk, but that is a fixed cost and not a recurring one. Same with the "reconfiguration" cost, it should really not happen frequently, so is not an argument either.
The gain of having the wall is of course to stop noise and visual distraction and I'm pretty sure it's well worth the minimal saving you're getting with open space office.
I call bullshit on your "Open plan offices are far more space efficient than cubes", cubicle walls basically takes no space so how can open office be "far more" efficient than cubicles. Seems like it's just slightly so.
Do you mean on windows? You know you can disable this behavior right? Can't be bothered to find where the option is right now but a quick google search should solve your problem. But yes, what an awful feature.
Never said they still did. See this post https://forums.adobe.com/threa... from 2013. It did install just like I said (in 2013). So it has, do not anymore, and I can't speak for the future but it would not suprise me if they do it again.
Not java but it was (is?) installed with flash player if you don't uncheck that box FROM THE DOWNLOAD PAGE (it do not ask if you want it when installing - it just install chrome without asking). WTF? Normal google/adobe behavior I guess but I found it pretty dirty from them.
I think you missed the part where some number of the old opera guys started a new browser called Vivaldi. Opera wasn't really the same opera since a little while. It's not that surprising they're selling it I guess.
Vivaldi was still pretty "beta" until recently but now it's getting pretty stable and include a lot of must have feature from old opera. Vivaldi is pretty much the replacement for old opera, not the browser being sold. It already has a lot, if not most, features from old opera (including speed dial) so you should probably check it out. The thing I miss the most right now is having access to my bookmark from the menu (there is no bookmark entry in the menu) but it's not the end of the world (it will probably be there eventually). Really, most of it is already there.
Yup, just disabled it in Vivaldi and (old) opera, thanks Chrome for reminding me to turn that awful binding off. There's already much better binding for that (usually mouse gestures for me) but you can configure them like you want in any sane browser.
Opera (old one I assume since you used "was") compared to Apple??? What might make you say that? Did you ever use it for more than 5 minutes?
To the contrary, (old) Opera was more like the old (XP-days) Microsoft with relatively lots of options and easy to use.
The *new* opera is a lot more like Apple (or modern Microsoft, or Google): Here is the new "correct", and *only*, way to use our product. Don't like it? Too bad, get another browser (they're all copying each others and won't have what you're looking for anyway). What do you mean different people might have different preferences/optimal usage? Insanity!
The link you posted do not debunk anything at all, just that they did not literally built only 6 houses. Don't you think the title is clickbait a little? I don't think I read any of the 2 articles but I read one yesterday about this and yes, seems like they had paid about 50 (?) millions in food and related things and built temporary shelter but appart from that there is still a long way to go to the 500 millions. Similar groups seemed to have done a lot more with a lot less, so we're still waiting for the Red Cross to tell us what it did with the money.
Nice to see someone who at least partially agree with me.
I don't care about gaining height space though, I'm not on a tiny ass screen. Also, most of the pros I said like having a menu is optional - if you care about the space, you can disable it (or not do anything at all since it's the default).
Personnally, I think having a flat UI or not should be controlled by the OS. If you want a flat look, ok, but you probably want it for all your application, and the reverse if you don't like it. Application should not force it to you.
But at the same time, I understand it is a free browser and I guess it is less costly to be multi-platform if you don't care about looking like a native application, so I guess I might get over it, but for now I still prefer the old version of Opera until it get problematic security or site-compatibility wise.
Interesting browser for those who are fan of the "old" Opera (like me):
Pros: has a lot of feature the "old" Opera has but not the "new": -Tab stacking (but they don't work as well than old Opera) -"trash" (to bring back old tab that you closed in the current session - although it looks like Vivaldi do not work per session so it looks more like just a shortcut to the history) -separate search and adress bar -a fucking menu (even if it look weird without a title bar) -mouse gesture (ok the "new" opera has them too but they're so useful)
Cons: -no disabling of javascript/plugin -no per-site preference -ugly UI, no native look -no title bar -still in pretty early state
Interesting but I'll stay on Opera 12.x for now. It's still seem pretty "alpha" and the ugly UI do not make me want to beta test it at all. Feature-wise it seems already better than the "new" opera though.
I don't understand. Are you saying that border agent should have the right to search your phone for proof of you telling the truth or not when crossing border? This seems a big invasion of privacy to me - you surely need a specific warrant, no?
Like the OP said, what is the border agent trying to find on a phone, pirated good? Who tell the border agent the guy have his email on his phone anyway? I don't see that much thing a border agent should think he can find on a phone. Appart if this is related to an actual ongoing illegal activity at the border it would seems like a job for the regular police, if you really suspect the guy of something illegal and want to search his phone.
Well this is one of the things I do everytime I log on a new Windows (like unhiding those damn extensions!) but it's not working very well since all instance of the same app are still grouped, just with separate entries.
i.e. if I have 2 or whatever instance of whatever app I use, I can't just put one at the top of my taskbar, and the other on the bottom or wherever I want it - they always stay together but with 2 entries in the taskbar instead of one.
Oh well, guess it could be worse - they could have forced the default options and I would be stuck with both grouped taskbar entries and have it icon-only (just can't find myself with those meaningless icons. Text please! I have the screen space, thank you. No my taskbar is not at the bottom, stop assuming everyone use the same settings).
Of course you will have copy/pasted the test too so half the chance that your test won't even find the bug. Also the pain of maintaining all that.
Seriously who tests their getter/setter? They're already tested by your other (useful) tests that use them to do more complex stuff. Writing unit tests is a trade off between the chances to catch a bug vs the pain of writing and maintaining them and writing tests for all your getter/setter just don't give much ROI.
I'm currently pondering about what I would hate less; having to unit tests for all my getters/setters... or having no unit tests at all. I'm still not sure.
Yeah you're right, I actually looked into that somewhat recently and totally forgot. Like you said, they didn't seems to be better than the (customized) default one so I didn't even try. Still, looks at linux, how much shells/UIs is there for it but none that seems to fit the (my) bill correctly. I'm not sure if I have much hope.
I don't know but this is a question I'm actually asking myself. Win8 looked to be continuing in the same trend (catering to the lowest common denominator) so I don't know what OS will be left for people who actually want to get things done. Linux is not really ready and the UIs do not seems to be what I want either from what I heard (the only one I tried personally was the one from ubuntu from last year or so but it seems it was all the same Mac-like stuff everywhere from what I heard). Am I the only one who want a better and refined XP? (say, something like a mix of Win7 and XP). I am a developer and I know I'm not the target market but why is it not customizable for the user? Why cater ONLY to the lowest denominator? What OS will developers (not-hardcore-enough-to-use-linux-yet I guess, I'm still pretty young) use to get things done when MS stop being that one? I wish I knew.
You can put back quicklaunch in Win7 easily (just google win7 quicklaunch). It's about the first thing I do in a Win7 install (while installing updates, say). That and removing about everything "Win7" like pinned tasks, grouped instances of the same application and the annoying maximize on moving the application to top of the screen and other idiocies. I still use the Win7 theme but it's about only for seeing the application when hovering it in the taskbar, which IS at least useful. I think I hated all those other changes that seems to be there just to be Mac-like. Hey MS if I liked the Mac UI, I would be on MacOS, not Windows, no?
"The point of every modern university is to create a workforce (and make money doing it), not educate its students."
Isn't that the whole point of the parent though? Personally I'm not sure I really see the value of the whole modern system which seem to favor growth (of the business) for the sake of growth. This all seems like favoring waste in my view. Business lack any vision to do the right things and personally I would love this new system that favor learning over being a good worker bee.
In the end, why is the point of every modern university to create a workforce anyway. We needs good worker bees, yes. We also need good thinker to see through all the bullshit that only lead to waste. Why isn't this a good idea again? We don't need to replace the current system, just supplement it.
We're not in the medieval ages. We need to stop breeding like rabbits and actually start to think by ourselves. We seems to want more workforce to be able to keep up with more people so we can grow and grow (where the only point I seem to see is for people to try to be better than the average so they can be "well-off"). In my view this is not the right way. Where are we going with all of this anyway? I personally want more quality (read: intelligent) people, not more quantity (read: dumb) ones.
I also think that this attitude in academia is a good possible cause of the problem. Somewhat like trying to gauge programmer's productivity by the line of code or student with their GPA. When your treshold is low it work fine - it keeps the really bad guy away - but if you try to set it higher and higher in the hopes that it will improve the productivity of your business or whatever you are the manager of, it run down into all sort of problems like cheating and the like which I think you perfectly described.
I think this is mostly a management problem personnaly.
All I'm saying is that his joke was more than changing alcohol to marijuana. That was my first post. If we back up from there the joke was pretty funny.
Lol what?
The joke is what you told yes, that he feels bad for people who don't get high because they don't get high.
That your joke what originally about a more complex joke is indeed good for comedy but I though his joke was equally funny in the current context (has I had not seen your joke previously).
I also think your answer is pretty funny since it just reinforce his joke that those who smoke feels bad for those who don't smoke because they're too uptight or at least they can't feel as good.
Seriously I feel bad why you take the original Frank Sinatra joke so funny as to defend it like that on slashdot. I don't know maybe I don't understand it totally but it seems that the joke is just a pretty standard joke, nothing earth shattering.
And now you just make his joke way better than your was so this is just really funny.
Read the fixed sentence again. The joke is that marijuana will make you more happy (he changed alcohol for marijuana AND reversed the happy/unhappy thing). If it will really makes you more happy is open to debate but the joke is still pretty good.
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Actually, the bookmark menu was added a couple versions ago (it took a while though). Seems to be pretty similar to what it was in opera 12.x.
If you could show numbers for phone with replaceable parts and show that it didn't sell, sure I would agree with you but since there's none on the market you just have no idea what the market is for those that want it, only the market for those that don't care. Sure it's popular but it do not mean that you're not missing out on even more. So no, not anything reliable. Personally, the only smartphone I bought had a replaceable battery, an SD card slot and a physical (landscape, sorry Blackberry) keyboard and of course it's old and I would like to change it but until someone offer an interesting product they just won't get my money. You're probably right that I'm alone in this but until you have real numbers to compare to you just don't know.
Sorry for the late reply, I thought slashdot would send me an email on reply (yes, the setting is still enabled, not sure what happened).
But no, the "walking space" argument do not work because there exists cubicle with wall on just the desk area - it do not takes any walkway space, and otherwise you could still have 3 walls but have it stop at the back of your butt when you're sat at your desk, and the space saved would be pretty small. Even in a high rent city, how much would you be saving, really?
Yes, you save on the furniture cost by having a huge table vs individual desk, but that is a fixed cost and not a recurring one. Same with the "reconfiguration" cost, it should really not happen frequently, so is not an argument either.
The gain of having the wall is of course to stop noise and visual distraction and I'm pretty sure it's well worth the minimal saving you're getting with open space office.
I call bullshit on your "Open plan offices are far more space efficient than cubes", cubicle walls basically takes no space so how can open office be "far more" efficient than cubicles. Seems like it's just slightly so.
Just use the basic html version (or use an external client that connect to gmail through POP3 or IMAP). Problem solved and works much better.
But yeah, not sure why you would use chrome in the first place though.
Do you mean on windows? You know you can disable this behavior right? Can't be bothered to find where the option is right now but a quick google search should solve your problem. But yes, what an awful feature.
Never said they still did. See this post https://forums.adobe.com/threa... from 2013. It did install just like I said (in 2013). So it has, do not anymore, and I can't speak for the future but it would not suprise me if they do it again.
Not java but it was (is?) installed with flash player if you don't uncheck that box FROM THE DOWNLOAD PAGE (it do not ask if you want it when installing - it just install chrome without asking). WTF? Normal google/adobe behavior I guess but I found it pretty dirty from them.
I think you missed the part where some number of the old opera guys started a new browser called Vivaldi. Opera wasn't really the same opera since a little while. It's not that surprising they're selling it I guess.
Vivaldi was still pretty "beta" until recently but now it's getting pretty stable and include a lot of must have feature from old opera. Vivaldi is pretty much the replacement for old opera, not the browser being sold. It already has a lot, if not most, features from old opera (including speed dial) so you should probably check it out. The thing I miss the most right now is having access to my bookmark from the menu (there is no bookmark entry in the menu) but it's not the end of the world (it will probably be there eventually). Really, most of it is already there.
Yup, just disabled it in Vivaldi and (old) opera, thanks Chrome for reminding me to turn that awful binding off. There's already much better binding for that (usually mouse gestures for me) but you can configure them like you want in any sane browser.
Obvious troll but I'll bite.
Opera (old one I assume since you used "was") compared to Apple??? What might make you say that? Did you ever use it for more than 5 minutes?
To the contrary, (old) Opera was more like the old (XP-days) Microsoft with relatively lots of options and easy to use.
The *new* opera is a lot more like Apple (or modern Microsoft, or Google): Here is the new "correct", and *only*, way to use our product. Don't like it? Too bad, get another browser (they're all copying each others and won't have what you're looking for anyway). What do you mean different people might have different preferences/optimal usage? Insanity!
The link you posted do not debunk anything at all, just that they did not literally built only 6 houses. Don't you think the title is clickbait a little? I don't think I read any of the 2 articles but I read one yesterday about this and yes, seems like they had paid about 50 (?) millions in food and related things and built temporary shelter but appart from that there is still a long way to go to the 500 millions. Similar groups seemed to have done a lot more with a lot less, so we're still waiting for the Red Cross to tell us what it did with the money.
Nice to see someone who at least partially agree with me.
I don't care about gaining height space though, I'm not on a tiny ass screen. Also, most of the pros I said like having a menu is optional - if you care about the space, you can disable it (or not do anything at all since it's the default).
Personnally, I think having a flat UI or not should be controlled by the OS. If you want a flat look, ok, but you probably want it for all your application, and the reverse if you don't like it. Application should not force it to you.
But at the same time, I understand it is a free browser and I guess it is less costly to be multi-platform if you don't care about looking like a native application, so I guess I might get over it, but for now I still prefer the old version of Opera until it get problematic security or site-compatibility wise.
Interesting browser for those who are fan of the "old" Opera (like me):
Pros:
has a lot of feature the "old" Opera has but not the "new":
-Tab stacking (but they don't work as well than old Opera)
-"trash" (to bring back old tab that you closed in the current session - although it looks like Vivaldi do not work per session so it looks more like just a shortcut to the history)
-separate search and adress bar
-a fucking menu (even if it look weird without a title bar)
-mouse gesture (ok the "new" opera has them too but they're so useful)
Cons:
-no disabling of javascript/plugin
-no per-site preference
-ugly UI, no native look
-no title bar
-still in pretty early state
Interesting but I'll stay on Opera 12.x for now. It's still seem pretty "alpha" and the ugly UI do not make me want to beta test it at all. Feature-wise it seems already better than the "new" opera though.
I don't understand. Are you saying that border agent should have the right to search your phone for proof of you telling the truth or not when crossing border? This seems a big invasion of privacy to me - you surely need a specific warrant, no?
Like the OP said, what is the border agent trying to find on a phone, pirated good? Who tell the border agent the guy have his email on his phone anyway? I don't see that much thing a border agent should think he can find on a phone. Appart if this is related to an actual ongoing illegal activity at the border it would seems like a job for the regular police, if you really suspect the guy of something illegal and want to search his phone.
Well this is one of the things I do everytime I log on a new Windows (like unhiding those damn extensions!) but it's not working very well since all instance of the same app are still grouped, just with separate entries.
i.e. if I have 2 or whatever instance of whatever app I use, I can't just put one at the top of my taskbar, and the other on the bottom or wherever I want it - they always stay together but with 2 entries in the taskbar instead of one.
Oh well, guess it could be worse - they could have forced the default options and I would be stuck with both grouped taskbar entries and have it icon-only (just can't find myself with those meaningless icons. Text please! I have the screen space, thank you. No my taskbar is not at the bottom, stop assuming everyone use the same settings).
Of course you will have copy/pasted the test too so half the chance that your test won't even find the bug. Also the pain of maintaining all that.
Seriously who tests their getter/setter? They're already tested by your other (useful) tests that use them to do more complex stuff. Writing unit tests is a trade off between the chances to catch a bug vs the pain of writing and maintaining them and writing tests for all your getter/setter just don't give much ROI.
I'm currently pondering about what I would hate less; having to unit tests for all my getters/setters ... or having no unit tests at all. I'm still not sure.
Yeah you're right, I actually looked into that somewhat recently and totally forgot. Like you said, they didn't seems to be better than the (customized) default one so I didn't even try. Still, looks at linux, how much shells/UIs is there for it but none that seems to fit the (my) bill correctly. I'm not sure if I have much hope.
I don't know but this is a question I'm actually asking myself. Win8 looked to be continuing in the same trend (catering to the lowest common denominator) so I don't know what OS will be left for people who actually want to get things done. Linux is not really ready and the UIs do not seems to be what I want either from what I heard (the only one I tried personally was the one from ubuntu from last year or so but it seems it was all the same Mac-like stuff everywhere from what I heard). Am I the only one who want a better and refined XP? (say, something like a mix of Win7 and XP). I am a developer and I know I'm not the target market but why is it not customizable for the user? Why cater ONLY to the lowest denominator? What OS will developers (not-hardcore-enough-to-use-linux-yet I guess, I'm still pretty young) use to get things done when MS stop being that one? I wish I knew.
You can put back quicklaunch in Win7 easily (just google win7 quicklaunch). It's about the first thing I do in a Win7 install (while installing updates, say). That and removing about everything "Win7" like pinned tasks, grouped instances of the same application and the annoying maximize on moving the application to top of the screen and other idiocies. I still use the Win7 theme but it's about only for seeing the application when hovering it in the taskbar, which IS at least useful. I think I hated all those other changes that seems to be there just to be Mac-like. Hey MS if I liked the Mac UI, I would be on MacOS, not Windows, no?
"The point of every modern university is to create a workforce (and make money doing it), not educate its students."
Isn't that the whole point of the parent though? Personally I'm not sure I really see the value of the whole modern system which seem to favor growth (of the business) for the sake of growth. This all seems like favoring waste in my view. Business lack any vision to do the right things and personally I would love this new system that favor learning over being a good worker bee.
In the end, why is the point of every modern university to create a workforce anyway. We needs good worker bees, yes. We also need good thinker to see through all the bullshit that only lead to waste. Why isn't this a good idea again? We don't need to replace the current system, just supplement it.
We're not in the medieval ages. We need to stop breeding like rabbits and actually start to think by ourselves. We seems to want more workforce to be able to keep up with more people so we can grow and grow (where the only point I seem to see is for people to try to be better than the average so they can be "well-off"). In my view this is not the right way. Where are we going with all of this anyway? I personally want more quality (read: intelligent) people, not more quantity (read: dumb) ones.
Well at least that's my optimistic view on this.
I also think that this attitude in academia is a good possible cause of the problem. Somewhat like trying to gauge programmer's productivity by the line of code or student with their GPA. When your treshold is low it work fine - it keeps the really bad guy away - but if you try to set it higher and higher in the hopes that it will improve the productivity of your business or whatever you are the manager of, it run down into all sort of problems like cheating and the like which I think you perfectly described.
I think this is mostly a management problem personnaly.
All I'm saying is that his joke was more than changing alcohol to marijuana. That was my first post. If we back up from there the joke was pretty funny.
Lol what? The joke is what you told yes, that he feels bad for people who don't get high because they don't get high. That your joke what originally about a more complex joke is indeed good for comedy but I though his joke was equally funny in the current context (has I had not seen your joke previously). I also think your answer is pretty funny since it just reinforce his joke that those who smoke feels bad for those who don't smoke because they're too uptight or at least they can't feel as good. Seriously I feel bad why you take the original Frank Sinatra joke so funny as to defend it like that on slashdot. I don't know maybe I don't understand it totally but it seems that the joke is just a pretty standard joke, nothing earth shattering. And now you just make his joke way better than your was so this is just really funny.
Read the fixed sentence again. The joke is that marijuana will make you more happy (he changed alcohol for marijuana AND reversed the happy/unhappy thing). If it will really makes you more happy is open to debate but the joke is still pretty good.