Posts by fandom 973 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2010
Disabling Nepomuk is about the first thing I do after an install, but it isn't that hard "System settings->Desktop search" and you see the tick to disable it.
As for adding an icon I right-click on the desktop to get the context menu and then "Add New->Application Shortcut". I have to admit though, that I have the desktop set to 'folder view', which should be default but isn't.
I guess they are hoping to have it work like gold ETFs.
In ETFs, the market maker, that would be the twins, sells the shares and then uses the money, minus commissions, to buy the underling assets, shares of S&P 500 companies, gold or even bitcoins.
When there are more buyers than sellers, the market maker keeps selling shares and buying the asset, when there are more sellers than buyers, the market maker buys the shares and liquidates the asset.
At least, that how I think ETFs work, feel free to laugh at me if I got it ridiculously wrong.
Anyway, I don't ever intend to get into bitcoins
"But what happens when the (for example) the NYT gets to hear that you read it and then offers you a subscription bypassing FB?"
You just wrote the reason why Facebook won't sell the data to marketing droids, so why are you pretty sure they will do it?
Facebook, and Google and the rest, are not in the business of selling data, they are in the business of telling ad agencies 'sure, we will show the ad to someone who will be interested, trust us"
Acer was going to release a phone with an Android fork until Google reminded that being part of the Open Handset Alliance they had agreed no to do that.
Amazon is not a member of the Alliance so they can do that and then some.
"I would imagine that a Nokia Android handset would sell well, probably better than their Windows phones, so why don't they produce one?"
"If you have a rope, however ultra, you are limited to one lift per shaft."
Not really, I think it is in the Petronas Towers where they have two lifts per shaft, one of top of the other, one for the even numbered floors and one for the odd numbered ones.
In the lobby there are mechanical stairs that they people to the first floor so they can get to the odd numbered floors.
"I think he just meant that the average amount of time an iPhone user uses his or her device for is 50% greater than that an Android owner does."
So, it only takes ios users double the time to do something compared to Android users?
Hey! Those fanboys are getting better at using computers, next time they may even be capable of preordering online instead of queuing.
"[1] It never came to court so we don't *know* the details"
Suing Tom Tom and Barnes & Noble doesn't count?
"[4] I then point out that after the legal threats, the KDE team caved & signed"
The KDE team? Are you sure?
"Sorry if this was too complex for you. Try Computer Active instead."
But you are good at self-deprecating humor, that's something, I guess
That depends on the story you are trying to tell, if you want to tell a story about how mankind has risen above difficulties to create a kind of utopia, it makes perfect sense to have people from all over the world, that's what the original Star Trek series did, as unbelievable as it may have been at the time, they even had a Scottish character.
But if the story you are telling doesn't require foreign characters adding them just because it is politically correct is wrong, not as wrong a writing some words in capital letters for no reason, but pretty wrong anyway.
And besides, it's not like Asian and African people need western help to make movies or tv series, they are quite capable people.
"They are toast once they stop getting the credit paid to them by other car makers"
You know it is kind of sad that your political views make you want for companies to fail so you can be proven to be right.
But that's politics, proudly rotting brains for millennia.
Yes, they got some money selling pollution tax credits but you know, that's what happens when you start up a business, it grows little by little, you can't expect to make billions by the first year. In fact, pretty much nobody was expecting them to turn a profit so soon, tax credits or not.
As for the current quarter, they have already said they won't be making a profit. They are going to start sending cars to Europe and therefore won't be getting the revenue as quickly as with those sold within Norh America.
By the way, that Schulz reminds me of the RIM guys who, after the iPhone was first announced, accused Apple of lying as it was impossible for phone with such a large screen to have a battery that lasted more than a few minutes.
About half of the taxis in my town are prius, the first time I took a taxi after noticing it I asked the driver "How come? is it the mileage, the low maintenance, something else?"
He answered that the mileage is great of course, but that it was definitely the low maintenance.
He also told me that he was one of the first to get a Prius and how the other drivers had laughed at him but "who is laughing now?"
Indeed they can sell them in their own site like Baen does, but still it is better for them to keep selling at Amazon too.
Amazon give them access to millions of potential customers that may not even know they exist, specially thanks to the 'you may also like' recommendations.
Also asking potential customers to register at you site to buy a book is a good way to lose the sale.
Since Neil Gaiman is mentioned in the article I took the time to check the prices for his upcoming book at amazon.co.uk:
Hardback: £16.99, although amazon sells it for £10.99
Kindle: £16.99, although amazon sells it for £8.49
It's funny, you are both right and wrong at the same time.
"Jobs had character defects, but at least the company didn't have a near permanent presence in the courts."
Not for lack of trying, after all he was the one who was going to go thermonuclear on Android and the one who let slip in his memoirs that he had colluded with publishers to increase the price of ebooks.
In Spain Telefonica (O2 mother company) together with Vodafone stopped giving 'free' handsets a few months ago, they may be preparing to do the same thing in the UK by letting customers know that free handsets are anything but.
Orange have been making fun of them running ads in which they show people carrying their own bed linen when booking into a hotel, but the strategy seems to be working for Telefonica and Vodafone.
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