Comment Re:Stop Auto-Refresh. (Score 1) 1839
Seconded. The only practical use I have for auto-refresh is to know if my connection failed while I was away.
Comment Re: The Commit Message (Score 1) 572
Which company would that be?
Comment Re:I wondered about this (Score 1) 220
You missed a turn. Development of the FHS passed into the hands of the Linux Foundation, and it became part of the LSB. That's to say, they did pick it up and use it, and then continued to develop it.
HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids 46
An anonymous reader writes: The latest high-profile show to join one of the major streaming services probably isn't one you watch: Sesame Street. However, it's a clear signal for a growing trend: these services desperately want to corner the market on kid's shows. Netflix has gotten tons of praise for its original series, and it's been quietly putting that production power behind new shows aimed at children. They've also made deals with Disney and Dreamworks to get movies onto the service as quickly as possible. Amazon has been debuting series after series as well, with six pilots for new children's shows landing last month alone. "The battle for kids, at bottom, is about keeping their parents around even when a favorite show about a murderous politician is on hiatus. Streaming services are far easier to cancel and resubscribe than cable-TV ... so the goal is to make that decision harder." Now that HBO is starting to commit to streaming, it's faced with the same problems. By deriving their funding through subscriptions, these companies can avoid the flak YouTube and Hulu are getting for targeting kids with advertisements.
Comment Re:A month with a Ubuntu phone (Score 1) 118
IIRC Ubuntu Phone hasn't switched to systemd.
Comment What about apps like Uber's? (Score 1) 96
Uber usually turns off surge pricing in extreme situations. Say they didn't for some occasion - will Google kick them off?
Comment Re:But Google Code? (Score 1) 44
The problem, IIRC, was containing spam. Since Github and others now offered full-functional alternatives, the fight against spam wasn't worth it.
Comment Not compatible with my Nexus 5 (Lollipop 5.1) (Score 2) 173
... Oddly enough. At least, that's what the Play Store says. Maybe some other restriction in place.
Comment Re: Odd thoughts: (Score 1) 285
Didn't Windows drop the Unix subsystem in recent versions (SUA or whatever it was called)?
Comment Re:Document your Easter eggs (Score 1) 290
Even when the documentation contains the egg?
Comment Re:The future of console games (Score 1) 249
How long is this "finite time"? My Windows Steam client has been offline for months - I'm behind a campus proxy and can't be arsed to use a proxifier or VPN on Windows. I use Wine + redsocks + tor on Linux to update the SteamApps directory as and when needed, but otherwise there's no connection between the Wine Steam and Windows Steam.
Comment Re:It is a start (Score 1) 233
Comment Re:NetworkManager (Score 1) 164
nmcli, nmtui, nm-tool all use small letters.
Comment Re:What's the Difference? (Score 1) 102
Did you really just say that Oracle fixing "what" you told it do makes it better at SQL, because SQL is about the engine figuring out the "how"?
Comment Re:But... the children!? (Score 1) 195
you only have to worry about family members..
Like spouses?
