yurik - Slashdot User

Comment Verizon+Motorola Response (Score 1) 364

by yurik on Friday December 16, 2011 @07:23PM (#38404772) Attached to: Android Update Alliance Already Struggling

Just spent an hour on the phone with Verizon, speaking with

Verizon Wireless - Katie (refused to give either last name or her employee ID)
Katie had absolutely no information on the next version releases, nor did she have any way to send request for this to be implemented. She called Motorola support @ 800-734-5870 with me on the line:

@Motorola: Kent, employee #352669 created a case ref # 111217-009859
No information yet except for the models provided, supervisor refused to speak with me on the phone.

Apparently just a run-around, without any info. I'm thinking of switching to another carrier/manufacturer.

Comment There, fixed it for you... (Score 1) 450

by yurik on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @10:26AM (#32810572) Attached to: Prince Says Internet Is Over

At one time Prince was hip and suddenly he became outdated...

Submission + - No more sublets through craigslist in New York

Submitted by yurik on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @04:45PM

yurik writes: No more craigslist. No more AirBnB. Soon if you visit New York, hotel may be your only lodging option. NY state bills A10008 / S6873 sponsored by hotel lobby seek to outlaw individuals renting out our apartments for less than a month.

From http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/06/new-york-considers-ban-on-vacation-rentals/98153/1 — "New York state senators vote on a bill that would make it illegal for any homeowner or renter to sublet for less than a month. The new law would be a blanket ban on short-term rentals no matter how ethical the renter is."

Another ref http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/06/new_york_controversy_a_crackdo.html

Comment Re:Similar setup as me. (Score 2, Interesting) 951

by yurik on Monday March 01, 2010 @11:12AM (#31316406) Attached to: How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages?

There is a similar approach I once heard: Use 4 well-defined icons to encode any 32-bit value. You would only need 256 distinct icons to have a complete coverage. Remembering 4 icons like that is fairly easy. Plus if your application only uses 256 or 65K errors, you can reduce the number of icons to 1-2.

Comment Advertising compaign? Or...? (Score 2, Interesting) 437

by yurik on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @03:49PM (#27926791) Attached to: Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale

I can see a few alternatives:

* Advertising
"Windows better than everything..." advertising campaign might be one. Massive consumer bombardment with "Windows 7" ads similar to what they did with Windows 95.

* Hardware
Microsoft might follow Apple and Oracle, and start making their own hardware. Massively parallel chips geared towards both the vector and regular computations would be one idea.

Alternatively, their own servers (totally not their market segment, plus they will aggravate their relationship with Dell and others, so this is less likely.

* M & A...
Buying Yahoo? Or better yet - Novel? That would be an interesting development. Novel has very little influence compared to their former glory, yet some of their technology (Moonlight?) might be valuable to MS. So instead of discrediting Mono project, MS might simply jump on it and start offering various open source solutions ... I know I'm daydreaming...

Comment Use wiki API as the guide (Score 3, Interesting) 121

by yurik on Friday March 06, 2009 @12:06PM (#27092181) Attached to: Congress Mulls API For Congressional Data

The process of the bill writing seems to me to be very similar with how the Wikipedia articles get started / mature. Wikipedia API was designed specifically to work with the bulk data (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ) - we can just adapt a similar approach.

(Shameless plug: I was the dev who implemented the original wiki api)

Dutch City Fears Loss of Pornography Archive 61

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 13, 2009 @05:03PM from the oh-the-humnaity dept.

The Dutch city of Leeuwarden has lost the municipal pornography archive and officials fear it may be gone forever. A spokesman for the city said the collection may have been taken home "accidentally" by an employee or visitor. "We're hoping that someone will say 'Hey, I have that in my attic' and bring it back," he said Thursday. "No questions asked." Leeuwarden shouldn't be too upset. I've found it a good practice to get rid of your porn archive and rebuild every 6 months or so.

6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive 504

Posted by timothy on Friday January 09, 2009 @12:24AM from the buck-beats-scapegoat dept.

nandemoari writes "A six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game has been criticized by parent groups and crusaders (or in the eyes of gamers, nincompoops) like former lawyer Jack Thompson for years (Thompson once tried to link the Virginia Tech slayings to late-night Counterstrike sessions. He's since been disbarred). However, not as of yet has anyone under the age of, oh, ten, blamed the game for a car theft."

Submission + - Microsoft pushed Desktop Search as auto-update

Submitted by yurik on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @11:53AM

yurik writes: Microsoft has pushed Windows Desktop Search through the automatic update:

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 helps you to find, preview, and use your documents, e-mail, music, photos, and other items. On an upgrade from previous versions, you may need to rebuild your index. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. More information for this update can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917013

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by

Dave Coffin

on Monday April 02, 2007 @01:05PM

Dave Coffin writes: "In Windows Vista, applications that don't link the Win32 API cannot use more than 32 MB of RAM. This affects all executables generated by GNU compilers. No such limit exists in earlier versions of Windows, and no work-around has yet been found. See http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html for details."

EU May Force iTunes Store To Accept Returns 252

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 12, 2007 @02:42PM from the putting-a-dent-in-the-bottom-line dept.

Sweet Harmony writes "ArsTechnica is reporting that the European Union may soon require online music stores to accept returns. A review of European consumer protection laws has highlighted online sales of 'digital content services' as an area where existing consumer protection laws need to be harmonized. 'The EC would like to standardize cooling-off periods along with other aspects of the EU's consumer protection laws. One of the issues being considered is whether the rules on consumer sales should apply to 'digital content services' like music.'"

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