Re: 2% of activations?
No wonder... the z3 compact is a bloody good phone, still amazes me every day. Value for money Apple buyers can only dream of.
Sony showed the rest that making your smaller model also slower/cheaper is a biiiig mistake
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I'm talking about one filemanager having no clue how to open a file because the tool is part of another DE - best they can do is let you hunt for the correct binary in /usr/bin
I'm talking about each DE picking a different place to mount network locations
A nice examples: AcetoneISO - a GUI for easy ISO mounting. It even offers a selection to pick your filemanager (fixed selection, too bad if you use another one), this causes the ISO to mount in a different location to try to fix this confusion of end users.
If we're going to talk 'year of the desktop', stuff should work together.
All systems I have setup for linux newbies, I have made sure NOT to mix DE apps
Go ahead, ignore the issues and downvote some more. You downvoters clearly are not using linux everyday :/
"But I still can run Gnome application in KDE and vice versa... so You choose your environment but it does not limit your choice of applications."
I'm amazed by the downvotes...
And mixing the environments isn't as nice as you think, some stuff works, but the mix of client side decorations and server side decorations results in a horrible experience.
Opening a reference to a file from an application build for one environment to another one? No go.You might as well run two VMs next to each other....
Still have to encounter a person who, upon hearing them the first time, doesn't go looking in the room where the real speakers are.
Bloody expensive and a shame you can't get two do play stereo, and use micro-usb to charge. But otherwise it's a investment you won't regret.
Listen to this youtube clip of the Bose side by side with a JBL charge. The recording was done with proper audio recording gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369O58SIyFo
Yes. It's a great little phone. As a moderately heavy user, with all options on and no stamina-modes, it still manages 2 days (still 30% after >6 hours of screen time), a coworker who only uses it for chat and mail manages to recharge every 4 days.
I read somewhere that the glass isn't maybe as good as Gorilla glass, so I went for a thin case + screen protector. I would have taken the latter anyway since I hate reflective screens.
The top 'article' (current one looks like Canon ad to me) takes waaaay too much space, I have to scroll down half a page to get to the list of articles (and that's on a big display). Same for the articles themselves.
Are you trying to copy the ugly and inefficient layouts of other sites? Please don't.
Why are new website designs going for bigger layouts - surely that's not the best way to handle big displays (which I got because I want to have multiple windows open - not easy when the websites start to scale too)
Another problem (that was mentioned way too briefly in the article) is ambient light.
If I'm watching in a dark room, blacks will need to be black and white should not be full power 1000 nit. When there is more light (daytime,...) the blacks don't matter much but you do need the high output on white. So it's maybe better to shift around a bit within the light output.
And I don't buy it that ambilight alone will solve this. If TV is going to output 1000 nits, ambient light sensors are going to be a must.
I'm very fond of these rules and laws, because we seem to have become a very self-centred society where nobody cares about the rest if they can get their things done.
So if my neighbour starts drilling and hammering in the middle of the night, or mowing the lawn on that sunny and quiet Sunday afternoon, I can tell him to stop or face uniforms.
I also believe that shops can close on Sunday. The old 'no time during the week' makes no sense because the 'I need to work until 6' was how they managed to get shops to stay open late. Either open late or on Sunday, both is just for spoiled morons...
Maybe Google can attach age weights to stuff their crawlers come up with. So older info becomes less relevant and drops to page 84765478
And not only the personal information stuff... also tech searches could do with age relevance, getting sick of Google turning up 10 year old links when searching tech related stuff
Just do it...
I haven't touched my dropbox and box accounts in more than a year, the Gdrive as little as possible.
The only limit is uplink bandwidth, which here in Belgium is pretty limited either by technology (Belgacom, copper) or corporate idiots (Telenet, cable), the latter trying if they can charge you an arm and a leg for 10mbps....
So if I have to pass a huge file to several people, I upload it to a webserver I have an account on (yes, cheating, I know, but my ISP also limits me to 100GB)
When I was studying electronics engineering (no sign of IT focus back then, but electronics did have programming courses), there were maybe 3 or 4 girls in a group of a few hundred, so < 5%.
Things have gotten better since then, but not so much, so I'm not surprised of the imbalance.
If the facts were to show that there is an imbalance of unemployed IT workers (lots of unemployed female and less or none male), THAT would be an interesting fact.
Want more female in IT? Get them interested and in the schools. But maybe you need to face the fact that males and females are DIFFERENT and have different interests.
Thorium reactors have more disadvantages than not being usable for weapons.
Please put an end to this myth.Read up on the subject before posting.
Thorium reactors are being investigated for a long time already, if they were the ideal solution, there would be many of them in use, because governments are looking for cheap/safe energy, regardless of what the paranoid people claim.
Thorium is still in experimental stage and I hope they can work around most issues one day as it does look promising.
The fact that Iceland has usable geothermal energy has some adverse effects:
Since energy is quite cheap, a lot of energy-hungry industries (aluminium,...) went there, causing the power requirements to rise quite high.
So now they are not only using geothermal, but wasting a big part of nature, building a dam + hydroelectric plant to make more electricity.
...but I said no!
I bring my own device but have to give some dodge exchange server full wipe control over my stuff? No Way.
I'm still using it for work, using less convenient sideroads to get to the calendar and email, but unless they can come up with a clean separated use they will not get the rights they want on my phone.
Yes, by all means just drop all ZIP files, also drop DOC(X), PDF,... because you never know it might be an unknown attack vector.
You sound like the IT guys at a customer site I work right now.
We're running around with USB sticks to move files around because that's the only thing that seems to work (*). Personal USB sticks, of course.
Yes, what could possibly go wrong?
(*) given that contractors are not allowed on the customer network, I have to do with a separate ADSL for my connectivity (which is a blessing because there's no firewall).
I was surprised that the craft went into orbit around a bit of rock with an estimated gravity of 10−3 m/s2. This is so far out of my usual calculation area that I cannot even estimate what forces are playing :/
Gut feeling would have been you aim to fly next to it and fight the weak gravity with occasional thruster. Obviously I need to do some more math :)
Would be great if they would manage to only have the HW-specific bits fixed for the device (HAL, BSP, whatever you want to call it), and have the rest of the OS upgradable so that a security issue is the OS can get fixed.
By now it is clear that handset vendors are not the party to look at for updates.
Another reason why this gets urgent: just like happened with PC and laptop, the phone and tablet category is reaching a maturity where a current device will have enough horsepower for several iterations in the coming years. So more and more people will find out that their phone or tablet is just as usable in 5 years (if they have a user-upgradeable battery), and having them buy a new one just for the OS is bad for this planet.
Not only designers...
I bet this will somehow fly back into their face in another way.
Knowing the issue, and in need of a USB to Serial, will you take the risk of getting an FTDI based one (with the risk that it is a fake one), or go for another one that doesn't have this risk?
I'm sorry but although I try hard not to buy fake versions, I'm going to play safe and avoid FTDI completely.
Watch sales drop through the floor. This is image damage that will last a long time.