Now, if half the population starts using "equipt" to mean "equipped", then it will be added to the dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/equipt
See also:
Burnt,
Learnt,
Earnt,
Slept,
Spelt
Smelt,
Dreamt.
Equipt probably isn't exactly standard these days (I use all those other -t words, but would still use equipped), but it's hardly "newspeak ebonification".
I suspect they're as international as the "World Series".
In fact, Wikipedia says they only exist in the Americas (USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands).
Yes, that's technically "Multinational". But it's definitely no McDonalds
That is not Facebook deliberately selling personal information to advertisers.
That was a security flaw in their application API that may have, in the case where application developers did something wrong, resulted in an access key being logged in an advertiser's logs. It is also not Facebook passing that information on to its advertisers, it's the application developer passing it on to _their_ advertisers. It was a limited life access key which only provided access to the information that the user had authorised the application to have access to.
If you didn't use applications, then you had zero chance of that happening to you, and if you did use applications, it's still not a guarantee that it happened. (Though to be safe you have to assume it did).
Using an application is always a risk, and when you grant access to parts of your profile to an application, you are placing your trust in them to not do such things. Some of the most successful application developers proudly admit to being scam artists (Zynga for example), so trusting an application is inherently a silly thing to do.
So in short, that link does not in any way refute my statement. Facebook does not sell your personal information.
Once Google has apps for Google+ (which they will, eventually), the same potential issues will happen there.
One major difference between Google and facebook is that Google sells your eyeballs to advertisers, facebook sells your information
Show me evidence that Facebook sells your information.
Facebook sells eyeballs just like Google does. Facebook does not give advertisers your information.
well done. I haven't been suckered into a goatse link in years.
It didn't, and the police even said they have no real problem with it, but would appreciate being told about caches in urban areas so as to avoid this sort of misunderstanding in the future.
Most atheists
...who make themselves known to you as atheists - ie. a self selecting sample of activist atheists.
I think you'll find most atheists just don't care.
Yet it works fine in Australia, and has done since 1999....
That's not true - I'm using KeepassDroid with a version 2 Keepass database fine...
The Win7 Gui is the Vista gui with a less intuitive, more click requiring taskbar.
The only reason Win7 got the glowing reviews it did, is because by the time it came out, computers finally had the power to run Vista.
..Unity/gnome 3 suck on a large screen.
And a small screen (at least in Unity's case - Gnome 3 isn't too bad on a netbook).
Unity and Gnome3 especially seem aimed at smaller screens operating in full screen for applications
The worst thing is that if you actually try it on a small screen, it becomes clear that the developers have never actually used a computer with a resolution lower than 1680x1050. That screen hogging side panel hurts your brain when it starts collapsing and you find yourself having to chase icons around.
For small screens the old Ubuntu Netbook launcher was perfect - I even use it on a desktop (1366x768 - so still fairly low res), and it was touch friendly too. I don't know why they abandoned it so quickly
Your user-agent solution: So you're saying that my smart phone, which is on a slower network connection, with a lower usage quota should receive both the mobile page AND the multimedia heavy regular page, and then choose which to render? That's massively inefficient and will clog low-power, bandwidth restricted devices. Also, it's stupid.
That would be why he suggested the other option - a capabilities field.
It amazes me that there still is no capabilities header, despite similar existing for mimetypes and languages....
As a New Zealander living in Austria that still visits New Zealand, I'd say New Zealand hasn't had a sane government for years.
Australia's is still pretty sensible (the internet filter stuff makes a lot of headlines, but no one seriously expects it to ever pass - and even Conroy seems to have given up on it now) for now.
At least our state abbreviations are a consistent number of letters. I'm looking at you, Australian.
at least our software can handle variable length strings.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
