I can only imagine all the white-out carefully painted on your cathode ray tube ascii terminals.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net>wrote: > Well, ok then: a synopsis: Google has by now pissed off enough people by > their lethargic, lackluster attention to serious bugs that were introduced > into Android by them (they own Android, of course the introduced the bugs, > duh) back in November last year. > > What's the bid deal? wifi either doesn't work in many Android devices > running 4.2, or it works very poorly: packet loss, inability to connect to > different routers. > > Bluetooth doesn't work. > > Why is it important? Because lots of Android devices turned into bricks > when they upgraded to 4.2, that's why. Want to to know more? Do your > quaint, archaic copy/paste url browser thing. > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net>wrote: > >> Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by dinosaurs. >> Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ. Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail. >> Or do you just do "more" on /var/spool/mail? >> >> :) >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Russell Standish >> <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>wrote: >> >>> Think of the people who do not read their email in a web browser. I'm >>> one of those, and I have my reasons (over and above just being a >>> curmudgeon, of course). The procedure here is: >>> >>> 1. copy the link, >>> 2. start a text editor >>> 3. paste it into a text editor, >>> 4. remove spurious line feeds and continuation characters from the URL >>> 5. copy the URL again >>> 6. open a web browser >>> 7. select "open web location" >>> 8. paste the URL >>> 9. press return >>> >>> As Glen says, unless there is a brief summary of what the link is >>> about *in the email text*, one just won't follow the link. >>> >>> Even worse are those emails that say "click here". Supposedly, the >>> "here" is rendered as a hyperlink, but one doesn't even have a URL to >>> begin with. >>> >>> :). >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:03:42PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote: >>> > </smartass-mode> >>> > >>> > >>> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net >>> >wrote: >>> > >>> > > Well yes, but I'm afraid one, or at most two clicks are required. >>> Here's >>> > > the procedure: >>> > > >>> > > 1) Click on the link (I know, you wanted to avoid that, but...) >>> > > 2) Squint at just the first sentence or two. If >>> > > 2) a. the article looks like something you might be interested in >>> reading, >>> > > open your eyes more fully and scan to the bottom. Alternatively, if >>> > > 2) b. the article looks completely unappealing, click the little "x" >>> > > symbol in the browser tab containing the offending verbiage. >>> > > 3) Proceed on as you were. >>> > > 4) #endif >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:38 PM, glen e. p. ropella < >>> g...@tempusdictum.com>wrote: >>> > > >>> > >> >>> > >> Is there any chance you could post a little blurb to go with these >>> links >>> > >> so that we don't have to click the link in order to find out >>> whether or >>> > >> not we want[ed] to click the link? >>> > >> >>> > >> I've been rick-rolled enough to avoid clicking links with no >>> blurbs. 8^) >>> > >> >>> > >> Douglas Roberts wrote at 02/01/2013 01:35 PM: >>> > >> > Two of them, actually. >>> > >> > >>> > >> > http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/epic-fail.html >>> > >> > >>> > >> >>> http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-natives-are-getting-restless.html >>> > >> >>> > >> -- >>> > >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> ============================================================ >>> > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> > >> to unsubscribe >>> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> > >> >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > *Doug Roberts >>> > > d...@parrot-farm.net* >>> > > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*< >>> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >>> > > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >>> > > 505-455-7333 - Office >>> > > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > *Doug Roberts >>> > d...@parrot-farm.net* >>> > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*< >>> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >>> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >>> > 505-455-7333 - Office >>> > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >>> >>> > ============================================================ >>> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >>> Principal, High Performance Coders >>> Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au >>> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Doug Roberts >> d...@parrot-farm.net* >> *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> > > > > -- > *Doug Roberts > d...@parrot-farm.net* > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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