Remember pointcast, the company whose business was advertising on screensavers, the thing that is displayed on your screen when you are not there? Now glance, the company that advertises on the lock screen, which activates when you're not using your phone...
My favourite variant of this was when a large tech company flew me from australia (where i was living at the time - I don't anymore, but that's irrelivant to the story) to san francisco for a two days of interviews, and then called me after I got home to say "you aced the tech interviews, however we're not going to consider you because most of your experience is in finance, and generally finance people aren't agile enough". It's a fine view, but it's also a view they could have had, you know, before flying me half way around the world - not only was that stuff on my resume, we even talked about it during the phone screens.
To be fair, given the intervening seven years, I dodged a serious bullet there anyhow.
In my day job, I work with Oracle ZFS Appliances as well as some FreeNAS ZFS devices. One important thing to note, is that Oracle/Solaris ZFS and Linux/FreeBSD ZFS have diverged greatly - most of the failings of Oracle/Solaris ZFS are fixed in the ZFS that linux/freebsd are using.
I wish I didn't have to know this, since like yourself I learned about that ZFS impl the hard way. In any case, the design of ZFS _is_ to protect the data via checksumming. Oracle ZFS.... has some bugs in this regard, however. Not that linux ZFS is bug free, far from it, just that it won't match the experience of using Oracle ZFS directly, at least this has been what I've found. YMMV, of course.
For our kid, we ended up installing youtube vanced on his device after he hated the vapid wasteland that is youtube kids (he'd used youtube on computers before, so he knew what he was missing). To be honest, I almost think (not seriously!) a filter which disallowed content that is allowed on youtube kids would be a more fulfilling experience - get rid of the hellscape.
To be fair, your mileage will absolutely vary - I assume most nine year olds don't like deep dives into electronics, phone tear downs, and people building retro lego sets, and also of course this does mean some supervision is required - but then, at that age, when isn't it? This works for us, might not work for you, etc. But, our experience is the current youtube kids is a worst-of-all-worlds compromise, and it's frustrating that google won't let us just say "actually, no, just let him use real youtube plz".
(We do also pay for premium youtube, so he doesn't see ads, which makes me somewhat more comfortable - again, though, supervision etc)
I'm pretty sure a solid million or so of these views are our 8 year old watching it on loop - and I'm pretty sure we can't be the only ones!
What I miss is phones that had actual batteries instead of the whole iSliver crap we have now. i don't know about the rest of you but I'd happily take a phone that's a little fatter that gives me 30% more time. I'd just rather not have the "thin is in" if its gonna make me carry around a damned charger all the time that takes up more space than if they'd just put a decent size battery on the damned phone!
At least we still have plenty of choice in that matter in the laptop/netbook arena but I wonder how long that will be the case, I just don't see what is the point of putting these ever more powerful CPU/GPU combos into phones if you are gonna cripple them with teeny tiny iSliver batteries just to rip off the iPhone look.
You can actually buy this for a lot of the HTC and Samsung android phones - there are battery kits which replace the back cover which something larger, in order to hold a larger battery. I have one of these for when I go away... I get a week on my mytouch 4g slide using it, vs a day with the stock battery.
At least, both Symantec Antivirus and CA ETrust have honest to god linux and mac os x versions - they both use kernel modules/kexts to do realtime scanning, and actually catch linux threats. Sophos does at least linux too.
Yes, but the c64 can't actually use that, for the most part, if you're also using a sprite multiplexer, which eliminates its use from almost every game since there is only eight hardware sprites and no hardware multiplexer like on the nes and friends, since the engineers assumed you could just do that in software (it's documented as such in the PRG, for example).
So most c64 games also suffer hitboxes.
3d Studio 4 (not max!) from thee same company would randomly corrupt your meshes in most cracked versions, but only if you had more than 500 vertices. So it would pass initial cracker tests, but fail for actual use by 3d artists. It was quite clever.
You could just, i dunno, not tell them...
This is not true. I actually worked for a couple of years in an Australian government department with a coleague who had a mononym name (i.e. only one name). Passport and everything. Caused no end of problems with some of the databases, though I believe she enjoyed that aspect...
Wait, if you hated FFM so much, why did you use it for a year and a half?
I'm an inhuman monster who things we should sterilize everyone at 12. If they want kids some time later, have them pass a simple parenting test, and the process is reversed.
Deal! You rush off and solve that little "And the process is reversed" impossibility, and then we will open discussions on the rest of your plan.
reversing both vasectomys and tubal ligations are solved problems
Didn't RMS come up with this idea about twelve years ago? It's basically the same thing...
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
