Of greater concern
...is that this suggests it was very possibly *built by* /b/tards.
Then again, some might argue that FB's corporate ethos and attitude to their audience has always suggested as much.
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I'm doing a special right now on Satanic Horde Repellent. Four cans for a fiver, ten for a tenner. Lifetime guarantee!
Also whether intentional or not, the phrase "up the heaven" is full of win. I just have an image stuck in my head now of Jesus turning up in a rickety Routemaster with a fag hanging out his mouth, saying: 'Op in then.
Will Paris be "taken up the heaven"?
>>>Oh my god, that's so innovative that I'm flabbergasted. You can actually remove covers and CHANGE the hard disc and the ram? And furthermore, there's a PIECE OF PAPER that tells you how to do it? Perhaps it even has a diagram showing you which end of the screwdriver to hold?
Well, personally I've never come across a laptop that came with teardown instructions. Is that common?
As far as I'm concerned, we cannot call ourselves an advanced civilisation until everything is soft and wobbly enough that we can all just throw ourselves around the place with gay abandon while engaged in any other activity, without getting hurt. We can spend all day zorbing without the big polythene ball, and amidst such mass ecstasy man will never care to make war again.
It was a real Heartbreaker when Zeppelins fell out of favour as mass transport. Like a Custard Pie in the face, really, and left me with a Black Dog upon me for a long time, as I'd had a Whole Lotta Love for them. Even so, I couldn't help thinking: Your Time Is Gonna Come. And now, just when that belief had almost been Trampled Under Foot forever, You Shook Me with this news. Hot Dog! I can hardly believe it, I thought I must be Dazed And Confused for a moment, but after chewing through Four Sticks of gum I accept that this is no Communication Breakdown. This is a real Celebration Day for Darlene and I, and though our Dancing Days Are Over, I suspect We're Gonna Groove tonight. I look forward immensely to the future, Good Times, Bad Times or whatever may come, and the first Night Flight will be exciting (as long as they don't fly it into The Ocean or a Black Mountain Side, and it doesn't Rock And Roll too much). Will one be Going To California? I'm Gonna Crawl to see one In My Time Of Dying if necessary, or more likely drive out to the airfield in The Rover, even if it's Over The Hills And Far Away - hell, Kashmir wouldn't be too far for me. Anyway, I could Ramble On all day in this fashion, but I expect it's becoming Wearing And Tearing, and I'll get No Quarter if I don't pack it in soon. Good article, Reg. Thank You.
This development seems much like a retread of what's happened with OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice so far: Larry gets heavy, the community forks taking everything but the name, gains momentum rapidly, then Larry panics and sticks the original out on the porch.
The OpenOffice U-turn happened weeks ago, and we've heard sod all to suggest any reunification is likely (please correct me if you know better, I'm not widely read). The forkers seem quite happy with the new position they've arrived at, and probably aren't ready to believe that Larry's shenanigans are at an end yet.
I'd be happy enough to see OOo/LibO reunify (make life a lot easier from the advocacy point of view), but only on the Document Foundation's terms, not Larry's. LibO is already benefiting from its escape from corporate heavy-handedness in the development process, and I'd hate to see them backslide on that.
Although I haven't used and know little about Hudson/Jenkins, I hope the same for them too.
Not convinced this is going to change anything much tbh. It might be "one in the eye" for al-Qaeda but I'm sure they have equally clever types waiting in the wings.
Unfortunate that they couldn't take him alive ... that, and chucking his body overboard hours later, are sure to delight the conspiracy theorists and could even add a new dimension to his "legend".
Now's when I need that :| icon.
"Saor Alba"?
If you must spout Gaidhlig in these pairts, do try to get it right, tapadh leibh awfully. That percussive sound you just heard was a million^H^H^H^Hhundred^H^H^H^Hdozen^H^H^H^Hcouple of teuchters facepalming.
(I agree with your post though. Apologies if the mangling was deliberate)
"This is a problem because (for example) I still cannot set the task bar to be a nice easy to read low key non-shiny light grey color with black font. I find the KDE4 black task bar hard to read - which genius dictated that such ergonomic details were not important to end-users?"
What distro are you using? The default KDE theme (I assume it's default, I'm on Gentoo and haven't changed anything) has had a pale-grey (or translucent) taskbar with black text for the last couple of versions (currently on 4.6.2).
Article seems to suggest you get no data access at all on the basic tariffs, which isn't true: you get metered data usage with the cost capped at £1 a day. Worth being aware of for those who only occasionally need/want access to t'internet via the phone.
And tethering? Meh, JoikuSpot always worked for me ;)
"After finding the enrichment-inducing 69p that someone dropped on the floor, the bored till-jockey stuffs it into his pocket and continues watching pr0n."
There, fixed that for ya.
If you have (a) wifi turned on at all on a machine that lives "in the back room", (b) a fucking LAPTOP in this role to begin with, and (c) employees you characterise as so untrustworthy yet still allow them unfettered and unmonitored read, let alone write, access to any sensitive data whatsoever, then you may as well pack it in now.
By now even the most piddling of small businesses (the kind I'm sure you are stereotyping here, for whom IT is a burden and nobody cares as long as it "just works" or they can call someone when it doesn't) have had PCI DSS rammed up their arses to such extent that pleading ignorance of the concepts of data security just will not wash any more.
If I were working at a nuke plant I'd have drained them and frozen some long ago, just in case.
True sentiment though. Even back when I was a kid and the Kobe quake happened, I remember thinking "The Japanese have been through more apocalyptic shit than pretty much any country/area their size - they must be the hard(i)est bastards around by now." After this week I think that lead is unassailable.
Plenty of existing watches are powered by regular bodily movement; I'm sure the form-factor could support a 3G wifi router, groupware server and streaming media centre with realtime video chat.
You'd just need to remember to oscillate your wrist vigorously every couple of minutes, which shouldn't be an issue for anyone who actually wants one of the things.
Icon: I'm now blind
If it were silver not gold, it'd be pretty close to a Cylon tin-can. And the glowing finger-joints: Electro-nux(TM)? The Spartan-looking helmet and white (otherwise rather pointless shurely) space-jerkin do make it look kinda heroic though, so fingers crossed.
Also, is this the last Discovery mission or the last Shuttle mission full-stop? Request for clarification.
Not sure why the "box" has to be part of the offering TBH. I suppose it's nice (and probably necessary for most of the technofear crowd) to get the whole thing as a turnkey appliance, but I'd hope that the software will be readily available for install on other hardware. Some of us already have always-on devices that would do the job just as well. As others have mentioned, this is pretty much what Diaspora, and that Peerbook thing that sadly sank without trace were getting at.
I guess there'd be a homogeneity angle: one user, one box, with the same spec in capacity and grunt, contributing the same and getting the same in return. But then again, parity in connectivity is impossible (for the foreseeable future in the current consumer comms world) so all boxes cannot be equal anyway. What if the peer (or, I assume, peers) housing your data nuggets all happen to be housed on boxes that are on dialup, or in the home of a massive bandwidth-hog?
Dr Moglen, if you can pull it off, this pint's for you.
I'd have thought the point here is that the noise-reduction doesn't have to be done by the hardware, but rather takes advantage of a natural phenomenon so that work is done for it. That has to be an economical approach, dunnit?
As for receiver positioning, the unit's own receiver has to be precisely positioned (at the, uh, nexus(?) of the two signals) to take advantage of the destructive interference, so surely that's true throughout the broadcast area: there's just a precise beam (or is it a plane?) in either direction perpendicular to the two transmit antennae where the same effect occurs (i.e. where the wavefronts hit each other). Much easier to avoid than to hit, I would think, but I took 2 years to get my Higher Physics, so I'm ready to be re-educated ;)
I dearly hope they don't go down the same road with the PHP support, which has really flourished in a short period and made NB my PHP editor of choice. It's the only one I've tried yet that handles a script containing PHP, HTML, JS and CSS without the features you want from a full-fat editor (completion, folding, syntax highlighting) crapping out on one or all of the above. Autoformat templates are dead easy to hack on too, to accommodate my personal style quirks. It's also faster than anything else I've used on find-in-files and class/namespace completion in large projects, even on a measly 1st-gen Atom.
I tried to like Eclipse, but it was too much effort just to glue together the right grab-bag of components for my desired workflow (and keep them glued through upgrades) - life's too short.
If this behaviour starts to look like snowballing, I sincerely hope there will be enough committed developers to fork it. Oracle must be getting used to it by now ;)
Dude, you had "some what", "tounge", "arguement", "destrying", "industies", "completly" and "in the vain of..." to choose from and you singled that out?
@ph0b0s, no offense; I don't grammar-Nazi any more (well, only at the Reg journos and copy-editors who are paid for their command of language) but I hate to see someone else doing a half-hearted job of it ;)
Gets closer to the real detail than any of the other articles I've seen this morning. Well done on not just parroting the press-release.
Still two questions though:
(A) Will the spamming be in the form of SMS/MMS to the authed phone, or injected into web content via the inevitable proxy that your wifi traffic will go through?
(B) How easy will it be to reassign your number to a different device? (It must be possible, what with mobes being short-lived things.)