"I don't think I want my refrigerator talking to some food police."
Oh God, it's an unstoppable force... it's the rise of the stupid.
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Where I work there are probably over a hundred hand-tailered slightly different versions of the same 20 year old software for each customer installation. It's a mess and it's becoming unmaintainable.
There's a new platform which is supposed to save everything, however it's Java and it's not high transaction so customers are rejecting it. They probably went with Java because of Java schools producing Java devs by the bucketload. Again, low dev costs and whatever problems come up will be fixed in the future (except they won't).
Agile promotes this, "just do enough now to get it out the door" instead of writing quality code now which can cope with future use cases. Layer on layer, over years, until you're stuck. It's shit.
Here's a link someone else has dredged up to show us the full horror of EFL... Custom button style with "press" effect and changable color
That's one button.
If you dive into the wormhole it turns out it's because Unity 3D starts up a fraction of a millisecond faster under Enlightenment than it does under Qt. So that's why they decided to go for Enlightenment which is a horrendous toolkit to develop for instead of Qt where you can bang out an app in an afternoon.
I believe updates tried to address them but I never ended up with a reliable compass on my Storm.
Also the Storm's autofocus can be quite slow. Again, updates tried to fix it but they didn't seem successful.
And now with Cyanogen Inc having problems I don't think they'll ever be properly fixed.
So if if something isn't working on purchase I wouldn't hope too much for an update to sort it out later.
It's an OS problem, not a phone problem. CM13 doesn't have dual SIM switches.
This law is probably came about because of a website satirising the PP's electoral programme which popped up during the last elections. It was done by El Mundo Today (the equivalent of The Onion or The Daily Mash) so you can tell exactly how much Rajoy's honour was slighted.
It took all of a day for a legal demand to be written and go to court where it jumped to the front of the queue and was rubber stamp and the website was removed. Long live the separation of powers.
Other parties also had satricial websites made about their programmes. They didn't go to court.
Oh but it was government as usual, except when it was inconvenient, and then it was "oh, we can't do that, we're the interim government". Inconvenient means running their budget past the EU, debates or question time in Parliament, and so on.
Not that any weighty issues were tackled before. Like the good funcionario that Rajoy is, most things were just ignored and hopefully they'd go away and stop bothering him. He did this with the election results as well and it worked - he just waited while the opposition parties, incapable of coming to agreement on anything, disintegrated around him.
While South European engineering is generally excellent (both Italian and Spanish produce some really cool stuff), South European maintenance...
Config file wipe blunder caused deadly Airbus A400M crash – claim?
Am I to understand we're supposed to get excited about a management solution for shiny non-maintainable non-upgradable devices?
I'm not talking about iDevices but what Macs have become. They made a concious decision to glue up and limit the hardware in 2012. Four years later they're unsuitable for corporates.
If I came across books like those (not that I actually know the titles of known terrorism books you understand, except those listed in the article), the first thing I'd assume is that Smiths were listing them on their website to catch out Four Lions style jihadists and tipping plod off if someone tries to buy them.
But no, it seems that the man from Hermes would actually rock up and deliver it to you if you ordered it.
Not sure what to say. Is this a terrible lack of joined up thinking or oddly reassuring that the panopticon still isn't here yet?
As a curmudgeon, may I be the first to say... I told you so.
Following the infinite monkeys theory it had to happen sometime.
I can only pray that the US doesn't experience the same upswing in racism the UK has since June 23 (*). These guys have guns. Lots of them.
Did you mean the police who will now be busy making America great again? Wouldn't like to be black while living in some* US states at the moment.
*some means most or all.