|
Does anyone else find it ironic that that Mozilla is delivering content as a PDF not html? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
pdf doesn't necessarily mean "adobe"  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
I never said it was adobe.
What it is is not html, and something that you either have to read in outside the browser, or with an in browser viewer that performs far worse than in browser html.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: It's sad that Uncle Ben had to die to teach us all this.
(that's a comic reference to those few who might not get it)
... and there I was thinking it was a rice reference.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. Just the thing for dipping in the Milky Way
|
|
|
|
|
Well, if they'd cooked them at 175-180 degrees, like you're supposed to, it might have been a mite quicker.
What's their next experiment? Seeing how long it takes to cook spaghetti* in a fridge?
* Italian food selected in honour of Chillo, the ice-cream you cook in da fridge![^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
They should've just laid them out on the solar panels to cook.
|
|
|
|
|
If they timed it right, they could cook them outside and bring them in while on the dark side of the Earth, so they'd be cooked and then frozen, ready for transport back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
There won't be a fee any longer associated with purchasing Komodo, the multilanguage IDE for Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Node.js, Golang, Ruby, Perl, and a variety of other languages and frameworks. "If you love something, let it go."
|
|
|
|
|
Black windows and multicoloured text as default?
Pass.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
You're such an old fart... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
|
|
|
|
|
I thought it was #OkBoomer
|
|
|
|
|
Hey!
Less of the "old!" 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Users of Google search on desktops may have noticed a slight change over the last week and that change is affecting what they perceive as an ad. This represents a further blurring of the lines between ads and organic sources in search. All of them?
|
|
|
|
|
DigiDay said: after Google made its mobile search changes, mobile click-through rates increased 17% to 18% for two companies
They probably see this as a great triumph, but it's still a scum-sucking scam, and pure misrepresentation.
This is something where the Advertising Standards Authority should get involved.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
The authors present a coating for electronics that releases water vapor to dissipate heat from running devices -- a new thermal management method that could prevent electronics from overheating and keep them cooler compared to existing strategies. Smells like high performance computing
I'm sure that extra water around the devices will have no bad effects.
|
|
|
|
|
Jeeze, I thought the article would be about water-cooling for power tools, heavy stuff in well-ventilated environments, or something, but it starts right in talking about phones!
Great, yeah, I really want a sweaty phone in my pocket.
Besides, mammals don't only sweat, to regulate body temperature; the vast majority of them express excess heat by changing their breathing patterns -- so why not use something that gets rid of excess heat by increasing air convection, like, I dunno, a fan, or something?
Creating conduction patterns, so that heat could be "guided" out through earphone sockets, or other highly conductive elements on a phone's exterior, would be a trivial design matter -- if phones still had earphone sockets, that is. Guiding heat out through a charging port would be as ill-advised as letting the phone sweat all over the charging port.
But the best way to keep your phone cool is by not playing games on it for five minutes, ya lazy buggers! Put the damned things down and get some work done!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Other animals, like iguanas, regular their heat with fins. Little razor blades that spring out of the side of the phone would help restrict usage to a reasonable length of time.
|
|
|
|
|
That would also make a good spectator sport.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Modern 'smart' hardware now comes with hidden expiration dates that encourage waste, piss off consumers, and put the entire internet at risk. This blurb will no longer be available after June 6, 2079
Unless Chris renews his subscription to the blurbbot 3000.
|
|
|
|
|
MB wrote: for a program Sonos claims was designed to minimize environmental impact.
Actively bricking a working (and paid for) product does not yell "minimizing environmental impact"; it will mean more dumping of e-waste in Africa.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
|
|
|
|
|
It also looks like a lawsuit waiting begging to happen.
Any lawyers out there? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
There are two odd things here
If an update is sent to enter recycle mode, then they sent will be sending updates.
But if the code already exists in the software, then that is planned obsolescence, which is kinda illegal is a bunch of places.
Either way, the email should not have included "This will affect your listening experience".
How exactly will not getting updates affect listening experience? Sure if I get a new phone and is not compatable. Gosh, here i was wonder why analogue audio jack lasted so long when we have had optical audio for decades?
|
|
|
|
|
If I, as the manufacturer, say that "You can have 30% discount on the new stuff if you let me wipe out the flash memory holding all the software in your old stuff, making it ready for recycling", is that "planned obsolence" as well - the ability to wipe out your flash? If any device allowing the flash to be wiped out is "illegal", then the great majority of all modern devices are illegal.
When you connect to the internet (or the mobile network, or whatever) to have your smartphone updated, or your camera lens, or your TV set, that is a flash update. (Strictly speaking it may be another technology that behaves similar to flash.) The updated code may very well be that which disables your device, by wiping out all or parts of the flash, or disabling some functions. No earlier preparations for is is required, beyond providing the ability to accept software updates.
|
|
|
|
|
Disclaimer: I never owned any Sonos product, so my understanding of how they operate is based on what I have heard from others.
If I got it right:
There is nothing whatsoever that forces you to "brick" your Sonos gear. You may continue to use it for as long as you like; it will continue to operate as it does today. Certainly, it won't have regular upgrades forever - nor does my lawn mower, my hammer or my bathroom mirror. I am not ditching those.
If what you want is to get yourself a new and exiting this year's model with all the new bells and whistles, there is nothing whatsoever forbidding you to do that. You can put your old Sonos into a box in the attic, or maybe continue using it in the den in your basement.
If you want to cover part of the cost of a new system by selling you old Sonos to someone else, you can do that, too. The new owner can continue using it just the way you would have done if you hadn't been insisting on new bells & whistles.
At least here in Norway, all of that was fully accepted. The problem is that Sonos said: We will give you a 30% discount on the new system if you send your old one to a recycling center. But the customers screamed out: We want those 30% discount without having to recycle anything! If we want to sell the old stuff at 20% of the cost of the new one, so that we get the new stuff at half price, all in all! If we want to stuff it away without recycling it, we still want that 30% discount! (Well, Sonos are not demanding that we recycle, but we want that stuff in our attic to be fully usable at any time, and Sonos won't let us.)
For the envionmental impact: I believe that Norway is in the forefront with regard to recycling. For at least 25 years, any store selling electric and electronic products are by law required to accept the return, at no cost to the customer, of the same group of product as they sell. If you sell radios and TVs, anyone may leave their old TV set at your store. The amount of electric/electronic waste recycled is on the average around 30 kg (60 ponds) per person per year. (For the USA, that would be ten million tons of electric/electronic waste a year).
In our homes, we have a separate box for used batteries, lightbulbs and other kinds of "special handling" waste. We have three garbage bins: For plastics, for paper and "the rest". The return percentage of (all!) plastic bottles are in the mid nineties, and the same for aluminum cans. You can fill up your car with all sorts of waste and drive it to the dump: There, experts will help you find the right on of the 12-15 bins for your waste: Metals, glass, pure wood, paper, organic garden waste, ... For a few things requiring special manual handling, there is a small fee (like chemicals, plastic wrapped(!) asbestos etc.), but we are talking about maybe ten USD, maybe twenty. You won't be ruined by it.
And we do not ship e-waste to Africa. Statistics show that 62% of it was processed here in Norway, another 32% in our neighbour country Sweden, 4% in Germany.
The "e-waste problem" is found in the basements and attics of people. In one survey, about 70% of those asked confirm that they have non-functioning electronics (phones, PCs, ...) laying around that they just haven't gotten around to return for recycling. (And I suspect that 30% are in the same situation without knowing/admitting it...)
So if you just get your old Sonos to a recycling station, and get the new stuff at 30% discount, I don't think the situation is that bad, neither for your bank account nor for the environment.
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
