Lots has changed in calibre-land in the last year and a half.A beefed up e-book viewer. Support for Android phones and tablets. A new modern look for the calibre user interface. A portable version of calibre that you can carry around on a USB stick.
Fuck this guy.
It's a fucking 50 dollar computer. Remember OLPC and the effort to spread computers far and wide for the goal of 100 bux each? So it has some compromises because it's a 50 dollar computer. So did OLPC.
Seeing drivel like this come from someone with a relatively low UID is painful. I will try to spell it out for you in small words so you can understand:
A beefed up e-book viewer.
Windows ebook viewer. NOT Android ebook viewer.
Support for Android phones and tablets.
This is HOW THE OP PUT EBOOKS ON HIS _ANDROID TABLET SDCARD_
It's a fucking 50 dollar computer. Remember OLPC and the effort to spread computers far and wide for the goal of 100 bux each? So it has some compromises because it's a 50 dollar computer. So did OLPC
meaningless drivel that has nothing at all to do with the current topic thread.
If carrying guns was illegal, people would be arrested and banged up just for possession. Push guns underground, and they become much more expensive and risky to buy. Why not just divert all the money and resources in the "war on drugs" into the "war on guns", and it'd be won inside a decade, I reckon.
Yeah, just like the war on drugs was won.... oh wait, that's what gave rise to the cartels in Mexico, and contributes to much of the violence due to drug trafficking in the U.S. in the last few decades.
Maybe Prohibition would be another good example... ban alcohol so we can give rise to bootleggers and the mafia, with the bootleggers having gangland wars in the streets....
One of THE key tests of a scientific theorem is that it can predict..
Ummm, you might want to go back and review the Scientific Method again. Science doesn't PREDICT anything, Science EXPLAINS OBSERVATIONS. You can use a well tested Theory to predict how you think something will work, but this is actually a test of the Theory at the time of testing, after which the Theory may need to be tweaked after further observations are made. This is basic Science 101.
If something in Science never changes there are two possibilities: 1 - We have a deep understanding of what we are observing, and haven't observed anything differing from past observations that needs to be explained. Or 2 - it is not really Science.
So tweaks and modifications to AGW Theory, OR any other Scientific Theory are a "Good Thing(TM)". Changes to a Theory shows that Science, and the Scientific Method are actually working.
And for those who say "it's only a Theory", so is the Germ Theory of Disease... since it is "only a Theory" they should have no problems sticking themselves with a needle contaminated with Ebola infected blood right?
What's the difference? Watching a TED talk or reading a technical article doesn't imply that any understanding, retention, or learning has occurred between the ears of the content consumer.
Sadly neither does a college degree. In most schools it is something like 60-70% of the classes you take for a B.S. are filler classes ( usually something around 30-40 of the 120 required credits ) with the remaining percentage actually applying for your degree. Students know this, and know how to get around it... cram and dump, then forget.
Even then, many degrees are so broad that students only remember things from classes that pertain to what area of the field they are interested in. The honest professors in any school will even admit to doing this as well, especially in undergraduate studies.
Haven't you been reading the LKML? There is a bug in the 3.x kernel code that makes booting Linux on dogs fail, and Linus dropped support.
I personally would go for a security Badger, preferably a dead one so as not to have to feed it. The old install method found here can still be adapted to a modern kernel and userland with a few easy compiles, with several open source drivers available for modern networking hardware as well.
Badgers are also much more vicious than non specialized dogs.
I agree that it won't be from the kinetic impact but......
Two things you are not taking into consideration:
1: to person firing the projectile is - hopefully - braced* so that the energy is spread over a much wider area than the usually small caliber area of a bullet strike which leads to... 2: the person being hit is not expecting the strike AND not braced and won't have anything to spread the impact area, will flinch, and it is probably quite easy to "knock them down" due to plain old equilibrium loss. See funny videos of people being taken out by low energy balls hitting them unexpectedly, if the flinch reflex from an unexpected strike can take down a person standing / sitting in one place it can and will take down a person who is evading while being actively pursued.
*reports of people falling down due to accidental discharge events really would not surprise me, but the person going down would still be due to flinch and over compensation, not from the force of the discharge.
OS X doesn't suffer from the 'mobilization' of the desktop.
Bullshit! There are some things Mac does quite well ( having quick look would be awesome on my Windows / Linux machines ), and others that suck. It is no different than any other OS.
I started to use a Mac at OS/X 10.9 since they are so heavily used in academia. 10.10.x switched over to the iOS shit-tastic flat look on everything. It is atrocious to try and differentiate between UI elements now on a default install. Thankfully there are more than a few UI enhancements ( free even ) that can be installed to make it not look like a flat sheet of paper on the screen.
I won't even get into the blur crap they slapped all over the UI after they copied it from iOS land either....
Windows 8 - all you need to do is install classic shell and it is as usable as Windows 7 was.
Gnome3 - Get a lobotomy and you can maybe be happy using it, but it still isn't anywhere near as efficient as Gnome2 was ( nor anywhere near as configurable as KDE ). Unity was made as an experiment to see how far users can be tortured before lobotomizing themselves and going to Gnome3...
I would ( and do ) use Debian STABLE for servers. I would NOT use Debian UNSTABLE or TESTING on anything other than a test server. Ubuntu is based on snapshots of Debian UNSTABLE that Ubuntu devs try to bug fix. Like all bugfixing, introduction of more and new bugs is inevitable, and to date the quality control track record in Ubuntu hasn't been near as reliable as Debians stringent rules for UNSTABLE > TESTING > STABLE migration. Probably because of Debian being upstream and having more Dev manpower, as well as Ubuntu deciding to release every six months no matter what. This is fine for a DESKTOP, where newer kernel and hardware support may be needed, but isn't a very good idea for servers.
As far as I know, even the LTS versions of Ubuntu are based on snapshots of TESTING. Still not something I would want to run on any servers that uptime is critical on.
If you ONLY want "hosts file" you search with ""hosts" "file"".
At least the first five pages of results will only return sites with / about EXACT "hosts file" in matches. No hostsfile, no hosts_file, no hosts/file, or any other combination, and no synonyms results.
Ugh, why, oh WHY is everyone going to the butt ugly super flat look with kindergarten color icons that seem to only have 6 different colors over the whole color scheme? A desktop doesn't have to be 100% eye candy, but going to 100% stripped bare with no real recognizable differentiation between elements is just as bad.
So, IOW, you have to submit to a "Walled Garden", right?
Ummm, no? You have to actively turn off known app vulnerability scans when you sideload. Even if Joe Shmoe user finds out how to sideload, most will just tap on the big OK let google scan this app for vulnerabilities.
Plus this is about unrooted phones. Hows that sideloading going for non jail-broken iOS devices?
And tell me truthfully, if this Article was about iOS instead of Android, would you REALLY be downplaying the danger here?
Nope, since everything on iOS _has_ to go through the app store, and can't be sideloaded ( unless you jailbreak... meaning there was ALREADY a security vulnerability ) it wouldn't be downplayed since the app was ALREADY said to be safe from a security scan / audit. If iOS allowed sideloading, AND Apple scanned sideloaded apps like Google, then it would be no different.
In some ways it's better than the old way. Here's how it works( same type deal from US cellular ) with US Cellular:
Want phone X which is $700 > Pay $700 OR pay $700 / #months in contract per month. Flagship phones like galaxy S6 are ~$40/ month + data package ( unlimited text, MMS, and voice included ). It turns out to be about the same, or cheaper than the old voice + text + data packages usually, then cheaper once the phone is paid for.
Oh, and with US Cellular ( probably verizon too) you can pay the phone off earlier, meaning plans are actually quite a bit cheaper... for the same amount of data on these new plans, after paying off a phone ( say after 3 months or so ) I save $45, and gain unlimited voice ( not that I ever came NEAR using what I had before but still... ).
Apparently you didn't read the summary let alone RTFA - they are talking about injectable venom, like a snake.
Umm, maybe you should go re-read TFA before pointing fingers.
There are no injectors on these frogs, they secrete venom ON THEIR SKIN then flail their spines to open and get venom into a wound. It would be perfectly feasible to harvest venom from these as if they had been typical poison dart frogs.
Apparently it's too hard for a CEO to parse the upgrade page where it asks "Do you want to use the windows defaults or your old defaults for opening programs?". I wasn't paying the most attention to the part after, but I vaguely recall maybe even a mini tutorial on rightclick > open with > set as default from the list after clicking OK from the keep my default settings page.
Not saying there is nothing wrong with Windows 10, the start menu for instance is NOT worth a shit.... it is just a list in alphabetical order of programs with no sane grouping. Thankfully classic shell has a build that works with 10. Other than the one 8.1 laptop I upgraded I think I will keep my win7 machines for a while.
I receive mail on two different accounts from different addresses, with several hundred mail messages in the one account and several thousand in the other sitting in my inbox. As of last week messages started to go into the spam folder on both accounts until flagged as not spam.
As an added bonus to stupidity, one of the addresses marked as spam is a prominent.edu address.
Congratulations, you can read! Now go practice reading the rest of the post, it describes how the "software" is not faulty yet gives an unwanted outcome due to command timing.
Actually, since it doesn't make the distinction as to the medium said music is delivered in it actually invalidates your point instead of supporting it.
You will note that your quote also does not specify that an audience even be present, or even that it has to be in the audible range, just that the sounds must be produced by voice or instruments. This means that a computer with no persistent storage can make music, if it is played to an empty area. It also means a computer with no speakers can make music as long as it is recorded onto storage media that is capable to be played back at a later time ( and note that playback is NOT a requirement, it would still be music even if never heard ).
That's the thing about Dictionaries, if it ISN'T in the definition, I.E. specifying the medium be live for music, it by definition isn't a requirement.
Try it out, one really good thing about KDE is that you can set just about anything to be the default program quite easily through systemsettings, the KDE "control center".
For example; if you like Firefox, Thunar, and Gnome terminal you can easily set all of them to be the default programs used for internet / file browsing / and terminal emulators. Same for PDF readers ETC.
That said Dolphin / Konqueror, and Konsole are really quite full featured programs. Especially the file browsers, using KIOSlaves for input / output to practically everything is really awesome.
He's saying the truth. 8-9 / 10 asshats on bikes don't follow the rules of the road that they are legally required to. Just a few things:
1: don't stop for stop signs... many times not even slowing down, then expecting traffic to magically not hit them. I have personally witnessed several tickets being handed out to them since my city is FINALLY starting to crack down on them, they will even do it right in front of a cop.... 2: riding on sidewalks instead of using the apparently wasted bike lanes, and hitting people walking ( you know the ones that belong on the sidewalks ). Happens with different asshats several times a month in my city alone, and I doubt it is a fluke since you see all the other asshattery anywhere you go. Hell because of #1 I have been hit by a stupid ass biker in a fucking crosswalk with the light in MY favor. 3: they observe speed limits worse than 4-wheel car drivers. School zone? Still going as fast as possible, on the sidewalk where they don't belong. They should be ticketed just as if a car was speeding ( this does occasionally happen, just needs to more often).
There you go, took mere minutes to come up with just a few things that 80% of the observed bike riders do to make everyone look down on bike riders. Sucks for the last 10-20% that actually are courteous, but then maybe THEY should start bashing heads of the rest if they want their image to look better.
Not only that, but they polished the test plate down. What happens when you use a nasty low grit number sandpaper that will leave behind gauges and scratches?
Not only that, but: What happens when water gets in the crystal structure? It may take weeks+ but water can and will diffuse into the material. What happens after firing? It doesn't take extreme amounts of heat to alter the crystal structure of steels... you can change the structure of regular / high carbon steel with a home oven quite easily, and destroy the properties of stainless readily to boot.
Typically, if a firearm will be used in a crime the serial number will either be 1: on a stolen weapon, or 2: ground off, not polished off.
If I remember correctly a Japanese geologist also used Muons or some other high speed particle to map out the insides of a volcano, letting everyone see the vent plug and vent path in 3D.
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That still has shit-all to do with having the "calibre ebook reader" on Android like you originally claimed.
Ya fucking idiot.
Lots has changed in calibre-land in the last year and a half.A beefed up e-book viewer. Support for Android phones and tablets. A new modern look for the calibre user interface. A portable version of calibre that you can carry around on a USB stick.
Fuck this guy.
It's a fucking 50 dollar computer. Remember OLPC and the effort to spread computers far and wide for the goal of 100 bux each? So it has some compromises because it's a 50 dollar computer. So did OLPC.
Seeing drivel like this come from someone with a relatively low UID is painful. I will try to spell it out for you in small words so you can understand:
A beefed up e-book viewer.
Windows ebook viewer. NOT Android ebook viewer.
Support for Android phones and tablets.
This is HOW THE OP PUT EBOOKS ON HIS _ANDROID TABLET SDCARD_
It's a fucking 50 dollar computer. Remember OLPC and the effort to spread computers far and wide for the goal of 100 bux each? So it has some compromises because it's a 50 dollar computer. So did OLPC
meaningless drivel that has nothing at all to do with the current topic thread.
If carrying guns was illegal, people would be arrested and banged up just for possession. Push guns underground, and they become much more expensive and risky to buy. Why not just divert all the money and resources in the "war on drugs" into the "war on guns", and it'd be won inside a decade, I reckon.
Yeah, just like the war on drugs was won.... oh wait, that's what gave rise to the cartels in Mexico, and contributes to much of the violence due to drug trafficking in the U.S. in the last few decades.
Maybe Prohibition would be another good example... ban alcohol so we can give rise to bootleggers and the mafia, with the bootleggers having gangland wars in the streets....
One of THE key tests of a scientific theorem is that it can predict..
Ummm, you might want to go back and review the Scientific Method again. Science doesn't PREDICT anything, Science EXPLAINS OBSERVATIONS. You can use a well tested Theory to predict how you think something will work, but this is actually a test of the Theory at the time of testing, after which the Theory may need to be tweaked after further observations are made. This is basic Science 101.
If something in Science never changes there are two possibilities: 1 - We have a deep understanding of what we are observing, and haven't observed anything differing from past observations that needs to be explained. Or 2 - it is not really Science.
So tweaks and modifications to AGW Theory, OR any other Scientific Theory are a "Good Thing(TM)". Changes to a Theory shows that Science, and the Scientific Method are actually working.
And for those who say "it's only a Theory", so is the Germ Theory of Disease... since it is "only a Theory" they should have no problems sticking themselves with a needle contaminated with Ebola infected blood right?
What's the difference? Watching a TED talk or reading a technical article doesn't imply that any understanding, retention, or learning has occurred between the ears of the content consumer.
Sadly neither does a college degree. In most schools it is something like 60-70% of the classes you take for a B.S. are filler classes ( usually something around 30-40 of the 120 required credits ) with the remaining percentage actually applying for your degree. Students know this, and know how to get around it... cram and dump, then forget.
Even then, many degrees are so broad that students only remember things from classes that pertain to what area of the field they are interested in. The honest professors in any school will even admit to doing this as well, especially in undergraduate studies.
Haven't you been reading the LKML? There is a bug in the 3.x kernel code that makes booting Linux on dogs fail, and Linus dropped support.
I personally would go for a security Badger, preferably a dead one so as not to have to feed it. The old install method found here can still be adapted to a modern kernel and userland with a few easy compiles, with several open source drivers available for modern networking hardware as well.
Badgers are also much more vicious than non specialized dogs.
I agree that it won't be from the kinetic impact but......
Two things you are not taking into consideration:
1: to person firing the projectile is - hopefully - braced* so that the energy is spread over a much wider area than the usually small caliber area of a bullet strike which leads to...
2: the person being hit is not expecting the strike AND not braced and won't have anything to spread the impact area, will flinch, and it is probably quite easy to "knock them down" due to plain old equilibrium loss. See funny videos of people being taken out by low energy balls hitting them unexpectedly, if the flinch reflex from an unexpected strike can take down a person standing / sitting in one place it can and will take down a person who is evading while being actively pursued.
*reports of people falling down due to accidental discharge events really would not surprise me, but the person going down would still be due to flinch and over compensation, not from the force of the discharge.
OS X doesn't suffer from the 'mobilization' of the desktop.
Bullshit! There are some things Mac does quite well ( having quick look would be awesome on my Windows / Linux machines ), and others that suck. It is no different than any other OS.
I started to use a Mac at OS/X 10.9 since they are so heavily used in academia. 10.10.x switched over to the iOS shit-tastic flat look on everything. It is atrocious to try and differentiate between UI elements now on a default install. Thankfully there are more than a few UI enhancements ( free even ) that can be installed to make it not look like a flat sheet of paper on the screen.
I won't even get into the blur crap they slapped all over the UI after they copied it from iOS land either....
"Climatologists have been warning that climate change may produce more extreme weather situations"
So what observations would make the climatologists question the basis for this prediction?
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Uhhmmm, this should be self-evident but: weather patterns globally decreasing in extremity or at the least not increasing.
You know, the opposite of what we have been observing to date.
Umm, no.
Windows 8 - all you need to do is install classic shell and it is as usable as Windows 7 was.
Gnome3 - Get a lobotomy and you can maybe be happy using it, but it still isn't anywhere near as efficient as Gnome2 was ( nor anywhere near as configurable as KDE ). Unity was made as an experiment to see how far users can be tortured before lobotomizing themselves and going to Gnome3...
I can:
I would ( and do ) use Debian STABLE for servers. I would NOT use Debian UNSTABLE or TESTING on anything other than a test server. Ubuntu is based on snapshots of Debian UNSTABLE that Ubuntu devs try to bug fix. Like all bugfixing, introduction of more and new bugs is inevitable, and to date the quality control track record in Ubuntu hasn't been near as reliable as Debians stringent rules for UNSTABLE > TESTING > STABLE migration. Probably because of Debian being upstream and having more Dev manpower, as well as Ubuntu deciding to release every six months no matter what. This is fine for a DESKTOP, where newer kernel and hardware support may be needed, but isn't a very good idea for servers.
As far as I know, even the LTS versions of Ubuntu are based on snapshots of TESTING. Still not something I would want to run on any servers that uptime is critical on.
Sharpen your google-fu grasshopper.
If you ONLY want "hosts file" you search with ""hosts" "file"".
At least the first five pages of results will only return sites with / about EXACT "hosts file" in matches. No hostsfile, no hosts_file, no hosts/file, or any other combination, and no synonyms results.
Ugh, why, oh WHY is everyone going to the butt ugly super flat look with kindergarten color icons that seem to only have 6 different colors over the whole color scheme?
A desktop doesn't have to be 100% eye candy, but going to 100% stripped bare with no real recognizable differentiation between elements is just as bad.
So, IOW, you have to submit to a "Walled Garden", right?
Ummm, no? You have to actively turn off known app vulnerability scans when you sideload. Even if Joe Shmoe user finds out how to sideload, most will just tap on the big OK let google scan this app for vulnerabilities.
Plus this is about unrooted phones. Hows that sideloading going for non jail-broken iOS devices?
And tell me truthfully, if this Article was about iOS instead of Android, would you REALLY be downplaying the danger here?
Nope, since everything on iOS _has_ to go through the app store, and can't be sideloaded ( unless you jailbreak... meaning there was ALREADY a security vulnerability ) it wouldn't be downplayed since the app was ALREADY said to be safe from a security scan / audit. If iOS allowed sideloading, AND Apple scanned sideloaded apps like Google, then it would be no different.
In some ways it's better than the old way. Here's how it works( same type deal from US cellular ) with US Cellular:
Want phone X which is $700 > Pay $700 OR pay $700 / #months in contract per month. Flagship phones like galaxy S6 are ~$40/ month + data package ( unlimited text, MMS, and voice included ). It turns out to be about the same, or cheaper than the old voice + text + data packages usually, then cheaper once the phone is paid for.
Oh, and with US Cellular ( probably verizon too) you can pay the phone off earlier, meaning plans are actually quite a bit cheaper... for the same amount of data on these new plans, after paying off a phone ( say after 3 months or so ) I save $45, and gain unlimited voice ( not that I ever came NEAR using what I had before but still... ).
Apparently you didn't read the summary let alone RTFA - they are talking about injectable venom, like a snake.
Umm, maybe you should go re-read TFA before pointing fingers.
There are no injectors on these frogs, they secrete venom ON THEIR SKIN then flail their spines to open and get venom into a wound. It would be perfectly feasible to harvest venom from these as if they had been typical poison dart frogs.
Nope.
Apparently it's too hard for a CEO to parse the upgrade page where it asks "Do you want to use the windows defaults or your old defaults for opening programs?". I wasn't paying the most attention to the part after, but I vaguely recall maybe even a mini tutorial on rightclick > open with > set as default from the list after clicking OK from the keep my default settings page.
Not saying there is nothing wrong with Windows 10, the start menu for instance is NOT worth a shit.... it is just a list in alphabetical order of programs with no sane grouping. Thankfully classic shell has a build that works with 10. Other than the one 8.1 laptop I upgraded I think I will keep my win7 machines for a while.
So where can I buy these mythical Thunderbolt RAM modules then?
I sure as shit can't upgrade the RAM on board, not without a soldering iron anyways... since the shit is just soldered on the board and not in a slot.
I have. From this filter update no less.
I receive mail on two different accounts from different addresses, with several hundred mail messages in the one account and several thousand in the other sitting in my inbox. As of last week messages started to go into the spam folder on both accounts until flagged as not spam.
As an added bonus to stupidity, one of the addresses marked as spam is a prominent .edu address.
Congratulations, you can read! Now go practice reading the rest of the post, it describes how the "software" is not faulty yet gives an unwanted outcome due to command timing.
Actually, since it doesn't make the distinction as to the medium said music is delivered in it actually invalidates your point instead of supporting it.
You will note that your quote also does not specify that an audience even be present, or even that it has to be in the audible range, just that the sounds must be produced by voice or instruments. This means that a computer with no persistent storage can make music, if it is played to an empty area. It also means a computer with no speakers can make music as long as it is recorded onto storage media that is capable to be played back at a later time ( and note that playback is NOT a requirement, it would still be music even if never heard ).
That's the thing about Dictionaries, if it ISN'T in the definition, I.E. specifying the medium be live for music, it by definition isn't a requirement.
Try it out, one really good thing about KDE is that you can set just about anything to be the default program quite easily through systemsettings, the KDE "control center".
For example; if you like Firefox, Thunar, and Gnome terminal you can easily set all of them to be the default programs used for internet / file browsing / and terminal emulators. Same for PDF readers ETC.
That said Dolphin / Konqueror, and Konsole are really quite full featured programs. Especially the file browsers, using KIOSlaves for input / output to practically everything is really awesome.
He's saying the truth. 8-9 / 10 asshats on bikes don't follow the rules of the road that they are legally required to. Just a few things:
1: don't stop for stop signs... many times not even slowing down, then expecting traffic to magically not hit them. I have personally witnessed several tickets being handed out to them since my city is FINALLY starting to crack down on them, they will even do it right in front of a cop....
2: riding on sidewalks instead of using the apparently wasted bike lanes, and hitting people walking ( you know the ones that belong on the sidewalks ). Happens with different asshats several times a month in my city alone, and I doubt it is a fluke since you see all the other asshattery anywhere you go. Hell because of #1 I have been hit by a stupid ass biker in a fucking crosswalk with the light in MY favor.
3: they observe speed limits worse than 4-wheel car drivers. School zone? Still going as fast as possible, on the sidewalk where they don't belong. They should be ticketed just as if a car was speeding ( this does occasionally happen, just needs to more often).
There you go, took mere minutes to come up with just a few things that 80% of the observed bike riders do to make everyone look down on bike riders. Sucks for the last 10-20% that actually are courteous, but then maybe THEY should start bashing heads of the rest if they want their image to look better.
Not only that, but they polished the test plate down. What happens when you use a nasty low grit number sandpaper that will leave behind gauges and scratches?
Not only that, but:
What happens when water gets in the crystal structure? It may take weeks+ but water can and will diffuse into the material.
What happens after firing? It doesn't take extreme amounts of heat to alter the crystal structure of steels... you can change the structure of regular / high carbon steel with a home oven quite easily, and destroy the properties of stainless readily to boot.
Typically, if a firearm will be used in a crime the serial number will either be 1: on a stolen weapon, or 2: ground off, not polished off.
If I remember correctly a Japanese geologist also used Muons or some other high speed particle to map out the insides of a volcano, letting everyone see the vent plug and vent path in 3D.