Comment Re:Business leaders vs a 9yo? (Score 1) 245
Exactly this. Why present the right to repair as a fringe subject instead of something *everyone* should want.
Comment Re:make it dumb (Score 2) 262
Far easier, report the IMEI as stolen to your mobile provider.
Comment Re:Should be Easy to Build Fast Python Compiler (Score 2) 72
They already did. Pypy is a well supported, highly compatible, JIT enabled, open source Python engine. It's still slow compared to statically typed languages, but it's a lot faster than CPython.
Python is very statically typed, more so than any other language. There is only one type, "pointer to an object". What makes compiling/speed-up tough are the mutable objects. You can add/change methods and properties after an object is instantiated.
Comment Re:Prove it (Score 1) 87
No so bold.
From the announcement: "of any phone in their possession". I understand this to mean they can read already received messages, not intercept messages "in flight".
I don't quite know what's special about it.
Submission + - Google down....! (bbc.co.uk)
owlseeker writes: Who turned off "the internet"....???
Comment Re:So much for IBM not messing with RedHat! (Score 1) 136
Well no, but actually yes.
Having people use and being accustomed to your product, even 2nd tier such as CentOS always was, will help your sales in the long run.
The rational move would have been to open the RHEL distro and provide an easy migration path to it from CentOS, doing away with the extra work of rebuilding and the associated delay and just charging for support, more or less how Oracle is now trying to poach RHEL/CentOS users. If it was any other company besides Oracle I might even be tempted.
Comment Re:Yeah, don't understand why anyone buys HP (Score 3, Informative) 193
With Epson ECO Tank, it's not the ink that is the problem, when the printer deems the waste ink sponge full it stops printing, at all. Without recourse. All official doc's you can find will tell you, you cannot replace and you'll risk spilling ink and just buy a new printer. The sponge was completely dry BTW, it's a counter not a sensor.
For me this happened halfway through the second ink bottle.
Not going to buy an Epson printer anytime soon.
Got a Kyocera laser printer instead. Reconciled myself with the fact it will last only 100k prints, replacing all the parts who need replacing after 100k prints cost 5 times the price of the printer.
Comment Re:More Expensive than Windows (Score 1) 80
I tried CentOS 8 on my laptop, I welcomed not having to upgrade to ~ 10 years. I reverted to Fedora within a month.
The experience made me fully understand why they went with Fedora. Lots of packages a laptop/desktop user would want are not available for CentOS 8 even a year after release repo's are seriously lacking.
Comment Should Perl 7 Be (Score 1) 128
Should Perl 7 Be.
Or should it have been put out of its misery somewhere around version 3~4.
Ask Slashdot: Is it Time To Call Time on Time Zones? (ft.com) 408
An anonymous reader shares a report [may be paywalled]: Anyone who has struggled to schedule a conference call across multiple time zones should pity the poor residents of Indiana. For decades, the Midwestern US state has been in flux over whether to observe Central or Eastern time. Some counties even switched time zones twice in as many years during the mid-2000s. This situation must be particularly baffling to the people of India and China, whose countries span thousands of miles yet obey a single time zone -- whatever the cost to their citizens' Circadian rhythms. Today's time zones are a 19th-century invention, driven by railway engineers' desire to harmonise schedules across states and countries. Now that we travel at internet speed, the system is breaking down.
[...] One of the first modern-day attempts to disrupt time zones came, counter-intuitively, from a watchmaker. In 1998, as dotcom hype was crescendoing, Swatch tried to divide the day into 1,000 ".beats," each lasting one minute and 26.4 seconds. "Internet Time exists so that we do not have to think about time zones," Swatch declared. Swatch no longer produces .beats watches and the idea has been largely forgotten. In 2011, economist Steve Hanke and physicist Richard Conn Henry suggested a slightly less radical version of the same idea. Instead of replacing the current 24-hour system of timekeeping altogether, they argued for replacing the "cacophony of time zones" globally with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), sometimes also known as Greenwich Mean Time. "The readings on the clocks . . . would be the same for all," they wrote, while office hours or shop opening times would be adapted locally. This seems even more feasible today, in a world when the nine to five has been replaced by gig-economy jobs and homeworking parents spend their evenings with laptops on their knees.
But such a change to global UTC would create new headaches of co-ordination. We would no longer be able to ask, "What time is it there?" to understand when it might be appropriate to call someone. Assuming our calendars tracked UTC in the same way they do local time today, days of the week would become a confusing concept for many parts of the world. When the clock passes what we now call midnight, Monday would tick into Tuesday at lunchtime in some places and breakfast in others. No amount of fiddling with the numbers on the clock can change the fact most people will want to work when it's light and sleep when it's dark. Your thoughts?
[...] One of the first modern-day attempts to disrupt time zones came, counter-intuitively, from a watchmaker. In 1998, as dotcom hype was crescendoing, Swatch tried to divide the day into 1,000 ".beats," each lasting one minute and 26.4 seconds. "Internet Time exists so that we do not have to think about time zones," Swatch declared. Swatch no longer produces .beats watches and the idea has been largely forgotten. In 2011, economist Steve Hanke and physicist Richard Conn Henry suggested a slightly less radical version of the same idea. Instead of replacing the current 24-hour system of timekeeping altogether, they argued for replacing the "cacophony of time zones" globally with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), sometimes also known as Greenwich Mean Time. "The readings on the clocks . . . would be the same for all," they wrote, while office hours or shop opening times would be adapted locally. This seems even more feasible today, in a world when the nine to five has been replaced by gig-economy jobs and homeworking parents spend their evenings with laptops on their knees.
But such a change to global UTC would create new headaches of co-ordination. We would no longer be able to ask, "What time is it there?" to understand when it might be appropriate to call someone. Assuming our calendars tracked UTC in the same way they do local time today, days of the week would become a confusing concept for many parts of the world. When the clock passes what we now call midnight, Monday would tick into Tuesday at lunchtime in some places and breakfast in others. No amount of fiddling with the numbers on the clock can change the fact most people will want to work when it's light and sleep when it's dark. Your thoughts?
Comment Highly unlikely (Score 4, Informative) 148
Well, movie studio's van prove highly successful movies were loosing money so Apple can prove the're loosing money on repairs.
Just so long it's just numbers on a page anything is possible.
Comment Maybe too little, surely too late. (Score 1) 115
Maybe too little, surely too late. I'me more or less done migrating away from Thunderbird, which I have used for more than a decade.
Thunderbird has been getting steadily worse for some time now but the last few releases made me seriously reconsider.
Notable problems are the massive memory leaks and god only knows what it is doing instead of responding to the user.
I've deleted ~/.thunderbird and recreated all my accounts en the problems immediately reappeared. It has become completely unusable at this point.
Leave it running for a day and what started with 300-400Mb of resident memory is now a 1.5Gb process and when you are using it the UI is stalling with one core pegged at a 100% for dozens of seconds at a time while consuming multiple gigabytes of memory. If it is not stalling it is as slow as molasses.
Comment Re:Thunderbird or AlPine (Score 1) 406
Switch Thunderbird into off-line mode before starting to set up a new account, the auto-configure has to be designed to dissuade people from using Thunderbird, I cannot think of any other reason why it would be so excruciatingly unusable in an otherwise decent mail client.
Comment Re:Thunderbird or AlPine (Score 1) 406
Thunderbird is a passable imap4 client, all mail should be on the server. For a reinstall only the credentials should be needed.
Comment Where are the released data (Score 4, Interesting) 309
The article is just fluff we all already knew. Show me a link to the actual ads.
