Say goodbye to standard battery sizes like AA or AAA or D or even the rectangular 9v. In the future, everything will have a custom made battery, that you have to replace regularly, and will only be available from the original supplier.
I already have. Nothing in my apartment uses these battery sizes anymore. I have a watch and a remote which run on a button-cell battery (and I always have a hard time finding replacements), but apart from that all my gadgets already have a proprietary battery. And thank God for the EU and standard USB chargers, or I'd be drowning in different kinds of cables, too.
Smart move. Laying off unknown niche products such as Thunderbird, and focusing on widely used projects such as Firefox OS. Way to go, Mozilla, I am sure that's the road to success.
Au contraire, to me it feels a lot like Matlab re-done from scratch, but getting it right this time. The language is as pleasant as Python to work with, and it has none of the Matlab syntax abominations and unexpected performance bottlenecks.
You'd be mostly benchmarking the quality of the underlying BLAS implementation. All these languages call the same blobs of Fortran and assembler code, and the performance of the glue part is insignificant once you have a matrix larger than 100x100.
The same reason why you can't steal an already-published idea: your paper is publicly available and timestamped on arxiv, so everyone provably knows that it was your idea first. Moreover, a google search will likely reveal your previous contribution.
I have never heard of this, and I am interested. Can you name an example of a respectable scientist (not a "fringe" controversial person, I mean) who has been banned?
In my eyes, this is great advertising for Protonmail. If someone that powerful couldn't hack or social-engineer their way into their server, it speaks volume about the quality of their security.
In case you are also wondering, MST3k stands for Mystery Science Theater 3000, an American comedy science fiction television series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000).
It would have been good to see the acronym expanded at least once in TFS...
The problem is that mr. Joe User cannot (and shouldn't need to) verify whether a website is legal or not. How am I supposed to tell? "Hey, mr. Apple iTunes, could you please provide me a signed notarized copy of your agreement with Katy Perry to prove that you are selling her music legally?"
Yeah, this! Who could imagine, for instance, a leading commercial search engine replacing their logo with playful images and games every few days, to celebrate past events?
because they turn off A/C over weekends and whatnot to "save money" where it's probably cheaper to just maintain the temperature rather than start having to cool everything again.
Is it? I am not a physicist, but from a quick energy balance it looks like it should never be cheaper to maintain a low temperature (rather than let it get hot for a while and then cool it down again).
shortcuts contain a lot more information than just a path: they include the path to the destination file, an icon, the set of command-line arguments to pass, and some other flags. For example, I used to have a load of different shortcuts to the WinQuake (and, later, GLQuake) executable that all had different -game flags, for launching different mods. Many of them also had different icons, if the mod came with its own icon. You can't do that with symlinks.
Wrong. You can. Several UNIX executables change their behaviour at runtime depending on the filename of the symlink they are being called from. For instance, in a normal installation of Busybox, many system commands such as ls, mv, cd, cat... are symlinked to the same busybox binary.
You are ignoring a factor: UI. Jolla has a very characteristic UI look and design, based on swipes and gestures more than on button, and quite different from the one of Android. Jolla users look for native apps when they are available and they don't suck, so developers have an incentive in writing them.
And, also, people don't choose a Jolla phone for the apps. It's *mostly* the freedom. So your argument "oh, yes, and there's the freedom too" does not apply.
A successful crowdfunded campaign has started shipping N900-style keyboard add-ons for Jolla, so you may finally have found a decent alternative. If you are waiting for an official successor from Nokia, well, good luck with that...
Any particular reason why they should get different answers than their usual ones? (sorry, can't find the official responses published on their website atm, but they used to have a full list of snarky answers like these).
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I already have. Nothing in my apartment uses these battery sizes anymore. I have a watch and a remote which run on a button-cell battery (and I always have a hard time finding replacements), but apart from that all my gadgets already have a proprietary battery. And thank God for the EU and standard USB chargers, or I'd be drowning in different kinds of cables, too.
The rest of the world, where internet providers and tv networks have been separate entities forever, says hi.
Smart move. Laying off unknown niche products such as Thunderbird, and focusing on widely used projects such as Firefox OS. Way to go, Mozilla, I am sure that's the road to success.
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Au contraire, to me it feels a lot like Matlab re-done from scratch, but getting it right this time. The language is as pleasant as Python to work with, and it has none of the Matlab syntax abominations and unexpected performance bottlenecks.
You'd be mostly benchmarking the quality of the underlying BLAS implementation. All these languages call the same blobs of Fortran and assembler code, and the performance of the glue part is insignificant once you have a matrix larger than 100x100.
The same reason why you can't steal an already-published idea: your paper is publicly available and timestamped on arxiv, so everyone provably knows that it was your idea first. Moreover, a google search will likely reveal your previous contribution.
I have never heard of this, and I am interested. Can you name an example of a respectable scientist (not a "fringe" controversial person, I mean) who has been banned?
In my eyes, this is great advertising for Protonmail. If someone that powerful couldn't hack or social-engineer their way into their server, it speaks volume about the quality of their security.
It would have been good to see the acronym expanded at least once in TFS...
Emacs with vi keybindings? Clearly they just like to watch people argue...
As far as I know, Alpini have a specific training only for drinking grappa.
What about making the humans who are piloting them self-aware?
The problem is that mr. Joe User cannot (and shouldn't need to) verify whether a website is legal or not. How am I supposed to tell? "Hey, mr. Apple iTunes, could you please provide me a signed notarized copy of your agreement with Katy Perry to prove that you are selling her music legally?"
Two very good reasons: because they didn't tell their users, and because there is no way to disable it.
Can they do it also when they are running in background? (honest question: I am not an Android expert, I am just curious).
Sorry for the stats nazi thing, but 50% are below median. For the mean, it can be any percentage in the range 0% < x < 100%
Yeah, this! Who could imagine, for instance, a leading commercial search engine replacing their logo with playful images and games every few days, to celebrate past events?
Is it? I am not a physicist, but from a quick energy balance it looks like it should never be cheaper to maintain a low temperature (rather than let it get hot for a while and then cool it down again).
Wrong. You can. Several UNIX executables change their behaviour at runtime depending on the filename of the symlink they are being called from. For instance, in a normal installation of Busybox, many system commands such as ls, mv, cd, cat... are symlinked to the same busybox binary.
You are ignoring a factor: UI. Jolla has a very characteristic UI look and design, based on swipes and gestures more than on button, and quite different from the one of Android. Jolla users look for native apps when they are available and they don't suck, so developers have an incentive in writing them.
And, also, people don't choose a Jolla phone for the apps. It's *mostly* the freedom. So your argument "oh, yes, and there's the freedom too" does not apply.
A successful crowdfunded campaign has started shipping N900-style keyboard add-ons for Jolla, so you may finally have found a decent alternative. If you are waiting for an official successor from Nokia, well, good luck with that...
Found them!
Any particular reason why they should get different answers than their usual ones? (sorry, can't find the official responses published on their website atm, but they used to have a full list of snarky answers like these).