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The company has also come up with a great counter-example of intuitive UI by presenting a confirmatory dialogue that makes it unclear whether you should click Accept or Decline to disable the feature.
It seems this is official confirmation if any were needed that designing an understandable useful UI is an now a lost art down at Redmond.
Instead of this dialog up being waved through in review, What should have happened was the person responsible should have been immediately strung up by the balls by Mark Russinovich from the highest lamppost outside One Microsoft Way while Redmond Chen stood next to them shouting, "and if the rest of you fuckers don't fucking learn Microsoft Windows User Experience book which was published in 2002 inside out then you're fucking next".
I don't think anything I said about Schengen and FoM contradict anything you said about the games French and Spanish police play 1km from the border. In fact I did mention more stop and search within countries.
I've never been stopped and asked for ID anywhere in the Schengen area, and I live within it. I guess I must look too inoffensive.
The Schengen area does not allow passportless (or ID-less) travel, it's borderless travel, there's a difference.
Residency cards aren't valid for travel in other EU countries, you need your own ID for identifying yourself, although residency cards help explain extended stays in the Schengen area or why you're bringing other non-EU family members with you.
But then security authentication is one of those functions whose philosophical concept is hampered by self-contradictory details of its own design. To pick a topical example, it is the right of European Union citizens to enjoy free movement between EU countries without being stopped by border controls. However, how can the border controls know whether you are an EU citizen or not unless they stop you to ask for your EU identification? So it's only by presenting your passport or ID card that you can exercise your right not to have to present your passport or ID card.
FoM is more about having the right to live and work on equal terms in other EU countries.
Schengen is the right to not be stopped by border controls. If you fly from a Schengen country to a Schengen country, you won't have to present your passport/ID card in the destination country. If you go by car, you won't get stopped at the border, you just pass the country's roadsign (if there is any) and be happy you've taken back control.
The counterpoint to FoM and Schengen is having to register your residency and having to possibly put up with more stop and search.
Silly rEU countries, if they didn't have FoM (the UK is about to get rid of it) and didn't have Schengen they could have intra-EU border controls and stop and search just like the UK... all the responsibilities, none of the rights. Who'd vote for that? Oh.
Do you really think Apple have created this beautiful object of desire to allow it to be sullied with something so base as a VESA mount and screws in the back? Of course not, you need the magnetic adaptor (dongle).
If Apple's still going in 100 years, we'll have monitors held in place by antigravity, just because.
YouTube copyright claims are broken anyway. It works something like this:
1. Bigcorp dings a video with a copyright claim.
2. Channel owner appeals and says no because four seconds of song is fair use or an audience booing doesn't fall copyright or whatever.
3. Bigcorp handles the appeal and has the final say.
Hence the likes of Nintendo (or Apple) just rampaging round YouTube taking down stuff.
I know what you're thinking. "Does the stand use six magnets or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, while reading the description on Alibaba, I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a Pro Display XDR, the most expensive display in the world, and would blow your budget if it fell off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
You get nothing extra, you have to choose whether you're going to add $/€/£200 to the price or $/€/£1000 or prop it against the wall.
The mount and stand use some special magnetic gubbins to attach to the back of the monitor which is probably patented so you won't be getting a third party one, or if you do Apple's PR will make sure you know that the guarantee for the screen is voided if was attached to a Lucky Rainbow Dragon stand when it fell off.
There are a whole series of interesting digestive disorders (Chron, LGS, IBS, etc...) which feature things passing through the digestive wall lining that in theory shouldn't.
I don't think enough studies have been done on the effect of microplastics on the digestive system or after passing through the digestive wall and ending up in other places in the body to be claim that they have no effect. Microplastics on the 130µm scale are about the same size as human cells (up to 100µm).
I think number of particles is an entirely reasonable measure. If you were to ingest one small piece of plastic it would probably appear out the other end a day or two later. But what's your body going to do against the same weight of plastic delivered in micrometer-sized bits?
... is it allows any idiot to respond to a fact-checked article by bleating a two word response, the hard of thinking stay in their comfort zone and blindly believe them, and it means a reasoned argument is no better or worse than an opinion or just some made-up shit. It's the worst thing that's happened in the past decade, it's rolling back evidence-based decision-making and debate which is responsible for most advances over the past 500 years.
So Nominet deserve it with both barrels.
Your iMac is still going strong after 12 years? Wow; and you wouldn't call that exceptional ROI?
It's only the old iMacs which can do this, my mid-2007 iMac has new memory, hard drive (SSD), WiFi, Bluetooth, CPU, and GPU. Now find me a new iMac which a) can do this or b) can even last 5 years without e.g. the dust getting trapped behind the sealed screen.
There are these alternatives but the list is about a decade old. Then again I guess classic iPods haven't changed much in the past decade either.
Same here, but live is not restful background red hue, it's bright red. Something to give you that adrenaline rush before you hit the enter key, not after.
I'm also thankful that MobaXterm notices you're trying to paste more than one line and pops up a dialogue box asking confirmation instead of e.g. obediently pasting 20 lines which could be deadly.
What Wardle found was that Apple's whitelisting mechanism only checks the cryptographic signatures of applications' executables, not every piece of additional code that they load and run, such as plugins.
Which is exactly the same well-known problem that Gatekeeper has.
Presumably in any dev meeting about this feature someone should have piped up with this problem. Were they dragged away for re-education?
In the UK I vaguely remember there was a time where some 'free' ISPs had dial-up software or browsers with built-in banner ads, but that came to an end with broadband.
The Grauniad also mentions it so it must be true.
Also notice that even with a free ISP you'd get some webspace. Not any more, we're all supposed to consume or go to Facebook.
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