Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Pete Svarrior

Pages: < Back  1 ... 302 303 [304] 305 306 ... 349  Next >
6061
Technology & Information / Re: Getting a new smartphone
« on: August 04, 2014, 09:48:52 AM »
How much did it cost? It looks pretty decent.
Off the top of my head it was under $300, but I honestly don't remember exactly. Fasttech have it for $300 right now, and they're fairly reliable when it comes to not scamming people.

6062
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: On the notion of FES reunification
« on: August 04, 2014, 09:47:29 AM »
If I'm understanding PP's post this forum will be the official one and the other forum will be merged into here.
That's the hope. It's not final yet.

6063
Technology & Information / Re: Getting a new smartphone
« on: August 04, 2014, 08:31:28 AM »
I (and Blanko) have a ThL W11, an off-brand Chinese smartphone. It's got a huge, beautiful 1080p screen, two 13MP cameras (front and back), a good enough (but certainly not excellent) build, and despite being a brand that no one fucking heard of, it's easy to get replacement parts for it. For its price, it's really good, and the price is pretty damn low.

Full disclosure: I recently fucked up the screen on mine, so it's currently out of commission. Make fun and claim that it must be flimsy all you want, but it was genuinely my fault that I broke it. The display and the touchscreen are the same part, so I'm going to have to dump some $80 on a replacement (about a 3rd of the phone's price, at least when I paid for it). It's something to be aware of, but if you're not a retard like myself, you won't have to worry about it.

Oh, and Thork hates it, so welcome to Thork Thread Town >o<


6064
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: On the notion of FES reunification
« on: August 03, 2014, 09:40:54 PM »
Can you bring discussions about T-shirts and membership?
Sure.

I support reunification as long as we keep Tapatalk support.
Assuming we carry on with the idea to use this forum as the base for reunification, we wouldn't be losing anything from the technical POV.

6065
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: On the notion of FES reunification
« on: August 03, 2014, 07:07:35 AM »
Just for the sake of transparency: we're still exchanging e-mails at a fairly leisurely pace. It seems like trust/personality issues have been put aside, since the discussion mostly deals with technical details (such as how DNS would be managed, how we'd merge the two sites' databases, etc.).

There are a few things I feel comfortable saying by now, but please don't take any of this as promises or declarations. Things might change, they might change suddenly, and they might change drastically. But here's where we are for now:
  • We will probably be reuniting.
  • Our forum will most likely inherit the other forum's database, bringing all posts, users, etc. here.
    • This will be a time-consuming task.
    • In principle, we could merge people's accounts, so that all their posts and stats from both sites are taken into account. We intend to at least try this, and I see no reason why we wouldn't succeed.
    • We intend for forum.tfes.org and other subdomains to redirect to their respective theflatearthsociety.org domains so that either can be used to access the site
  • We also hope to continue using our current Wiki.
  • theflatearthsociety.org's homepage will stay as it is, and ours will likely be retired.

Again, none of that is final. It's an educated guess on my part based on the direction the conversation has been taking so far. It's been going pretty smoothly thus far.

How about Wilmore, Jroa and Roundy from the other site?
As far as I'm concerned, that sounds sensible. We haven't discussed the details of the moderation team yet, but if I'm reading Daniel's messages right, we shouldn't have much trouble reaching an agreement there.

6066
Arts & Entertainment / Re: Sonic games are literally the worst
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:20:56 AM »
I dunno, man, they were pretty smug.

6067
Well, I just ordered one for myself. £2.80 with free one-day delivery (thanks, free Amazon Prime trial!)

I'm going to forget to cancel all those free trials, aren't I?

6068
What makes you think so?

6069
Why is there a piece of paper covering the acquitted and discharged column by Hampden's name?
Probably the Conspiracy trying to cover up some important details. On a more serious note, the first word looks a bit like "recogniz[ance?]", and then there's something about "2 ye[ars?]". Perhaps it's a note of the recognizance as mentioned in the last sentence of the Times article?

6070
Okay, well, I went and grabbed the prison records.

2nd March 1875, Essex. John Hampden, imprisoned for libel. He's #8 on the list.


6071
Thork, the "released after one week" quote seems to talk about something that happened before 1875. Your source suggests that says that Wallace sued for libel after that imprisonment. We're talking about different incidents.

Despite being sent to prison for a week and  ordered by the court not to bother Wallace or his family for three months, Hampden wasn't stopped for long.  As soon as the three months were over, the harassment began again.  Hampden was careful not to make any further violent threats against Wallace but he continued to send letters and pamphlets to every professional organization in the country.  By 1871, Wallace had enough of the harassment and sued for libel.

6072
Okay, here we go. Apologies for the poor quality, that's what I got from The Times' archive:



You can read the whole page here. I'll update our Wiki and the library at some point soon.

6073
Okay, yeah, the article's legit, he did go to jail. I'll post it momentarily.

6074
Hmm, it looks like The Times have an extensive archive for subscribers, and a 30-day trial is just £1. I'll sign up and see if I can find it.

6075
So you're arguing that the absence of jail record in one record proof is proof that he was never in jail?
Well, if the reference used to substantiate a claim doesn't have any references to the claim, it's a poor reference and shouldn't be considered valid. If no valid references exist, then the claim should be marked as unreferenced or removed. I think that's common sense.

6076
Hampden got sued multiple times for his libel. Generally not the best way to go about things.

http://wiki.tfes.org/John_Hampden

EDIT: And, according to Wikipedia, he also got jailed for it. Yeah, definitely not the best way to go about things.

6077
That's exactly the type of thing that would make me think they wouldn't want to do this with Facebook.
And why would they want to use G+? It's literally the same thing, only less popular.

6078
So if we are just talking about the hangouts app then that means nothing really
I agree, but that was your original claim. Perhaps now you understand why we thought it was dumb.

I don't see how that helps xmpp be a standard.
Well, I'm tired of explaining words to you.

Do you want to add random FE people to your personal friends list.
Yup, done it many times, loads of people here have me on FB.

Is this something anyone wants to do.
Yes.

Like I said earlier when I brought up fb. People treat it like a silo. They are choosy about their friend lists.
And like I said before, and as is usually the case with your random allegations about what people do on Facebook, you do not actually know how people use Facebook. Don't speak for everyone just because you're one of those old guys who are afraid to add more than 200 people to your list.

6079
That info graphic doesn't display hangouts numbers. You have just implied that all of these apps have better numbers than hangouts
The enquiry in question investigated 10 most commonly-used mobile chat applications. You are correct that Google Hangouts is not displayed. Since the research was performed after Google Hangouts hit its peak, the conclusion should be obvious.

Oh, and g+ users are hangouts users.
No. People who use Google Hangouts are Google Hangouts users. Of course, in this particular case we're talking about users of the Google Hangouts app, so your point is irrelevant anyway.

Xmpp.... Yes, not a complete implementation. There is nothing standardizing about what Facebook does for xmpp.
Incorrect.

If anything its making it proprietary
Incorrect.

6080
Few people use G+? That's funny. I'm sure it the fastest growing social network of all time. The second largest at the moment.
Few people use Google Hangouts. Don't change the subject, just because you were wrong doesn't mean you need to be dishonest, too. There are at least ten more popular solutions.

Facebook Chat does not actually run an XMPP server internally, but merely presents an XMPP interface to clients.
And what, in your non-factual opinion, is an XMPP server if not an application that presents clients with a standardised interface and the functionality to support that interface? Because, y'know, that's what an XMPP server is. Again, the problem here is that you don't understand what XMPP is.

I suppose what you're trying to say is that it's not a complete or fully compliant implementation of XMPP, in which case you're correct.

This is not helping the attempt to make it a standard at all.
It's okay, they're fixing it. And yes, it is helping.
Facebook Chat is terse when sending updates for new friends, because the negotiation happens outside of XMPP. Future versions of Facebook Chat may be more conformant.

And really, you and Parsifal seem like the same person. Always backing each others wrong ideas up.
It's because we understand computers m8. Don't worry, one day you'll learn what XMPP is and you can join us cool kids.

Pages: < Back  1 ... 302 303 [304] 305 306 ... 349  Next >