Comment retro systems option missing (Score 1) 86
I only played games on C64/Amiga (I'm old). I just don't care anymore.
Also the "I don't play games you insensitive clod" is missing.
Comment EMUI is crap (Score 2) 148
I have been using android and custom ROMs since the HTC magic (the first android device you could buy here).
I have a P20 pro, bought it because you could unlock it, and lineage OS would run on it, and on top you could still use the stock Huawei camera app. This gives me best of both worlds, the device and the camera is fantastic, but the software is horrible (I tried to use it for 1 week before giving up):
* they implemented some kind of process freezing that makes you lose notifications (I had this with hangouts, google photos, facebook messenger and more). Major dealbrearker, you can somehow exempt some apps from the freezing but that's very involved
* I got a call from my girlfriend with phone in priority only. Phone din't ring. She was not amused (we have twins and needed to come asap)
* you can not set the SMS ringtone to something else than the default notification sound (mind, this is with google's messages app, somehow they didn't implement the notification channels correctly)
* bluetooth is buggy, strangely works better in custom ROMs
* it's slow
* contains lots of bloatware
* if you want to use Google apps like calendar and contacts, you get lots of duplication, and confusion resulting from that (it will always open Huawei calendar)
Now running a project treble ROM and loving it. There are a few drawbacks, IR doesn't work, USB audio doesn't work, in call mute doesn't work, no notch support, but none of these are bigger issues than their own EMUI rubbish.
And as stated already here, people often come to me for buying advice for android phones, I will NOT recommend Huawei ever.
Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538
artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"
Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered 95
grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."
Comment Lamarck revisited (Score 1) 216
Lately there have been examples of Lamarck-like 'evolution'. It's clear now the base-pair order is not the whole picture. To some extend acquired features (in particular, methylation of DNA) can be passed on to offspring.
see http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026845.000-memories-may-be-stored-on-your-dna.html
Comment Rootkits run as system (Score 1) 835
Rootkits can run in kernel space, and can fool process explorer/task manager that they are there: they don't show up in the process table. Some of these things are really nasty. I always recommend complete reinstall if the computer 'suddenly' becomes slow. (Of course, reinstall with the network unplugged until you can install all the service packs, and install antivirus/FW, or better, behind a REAL (hardware) firewall). After that, everything is smooth again.
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