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Thanks, the problem really being that she has no idea how to file manage on her windows PC or add/remove software, and her attempt at installing the software failed.

It's weird reading the Android engineers rebuttals. It's something that really irritates me, and frankly it has put me off of owning a smartphone at all (not having a microSD slot).

I also noticed a few limititations for the first time with my partners Nook HD that does have an SD slot. I bought a 32gb MicroSD card for it to store video and music. When trying to download from the web browser files went to local storage. I also had issues with downloading in general, some of which would be incomplete or disappear. While downloading I expected to be able to move to another app, and have the download background. It was a pretty shonky experience. I tried to find some kind of setting for it and ultimately realised that Android wasn't that brilliantly suited to handle external memory.

I'm never that sure if a device is going to take ownership of something like a micro SD card when I attach it. The whole portable format thing is a pain too. Not being able to use ExFat easily on my Linux laptop is a pain. I'm surprised one of the free file systems haven't been chosen as the default for for usb sticks, memory cards etc. Probably a result of manufacturers looking to have Windows compatibility.

I'm not quite sure myself which way I think opening media should go, should I select an app first and then open something, or should I use a 'finder' to get to a file and then choose what to do with it? I guess the latter at least affords for the 'finder' to suggest what to do with it, if not have a sensible default. Should my 'finder' know if a piece of software can handle the file upfront? Should software register what it can handle to a central authority? Sometimes you might not know wihch is the best software to open something with.

From a users perspective, I'd at least hope that if the device had 8GB on it, and if I had a card plugged in with 32GB, when I went to download a 1GB file it may put that on the 32GB card. Maybe there should be named storage pools that you could select when downloading. Or a sensible default.

Perhaps when you plug in media you should get the option of integrating it to the devices storage, or having it as temporary or portable storage.

The whole file management thing doesn't feel like it's solved on the desktop, but neither does it feel particulary good on Android. I think I like to know where my files are.

I do get that this is an epic problem. My Aunt was hopeless with file management on her laptop, but is happy with her iPad, other than suggesting that she has no idea how to get the photos off of it, and hasn't succeeding in doing so yet.

(I get annoyed when people cite Obama as being a black president! How about Grey? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/...)

I have no idea. But animal feed in the UK used to be poorly regulated until the BSE scandal. Where it transpired that cattle offal was being fed back to cattle. I couldn't quite get why a ruminent herbivore was being fed meat in the first place. But it seems they were being fed loads of crap. I remember reading that even cement dust was being used to give them more weight. There was a recent TV program that was trying to push for waste foods like canteen waste to be fed to pigs - but the regulation was so tight it wasn't possible. Clean regulated insect feeds could help there (maybe..)

If you designated the input type as email, at least the browser could then take over the responsibility, not necessarily of the validation, but possibly of the suggestion that you might have mistyped or have an invalid email address. Surely that's preferable to every site writing their own code. Browsers should be web helpers!

Surely you mean aoeu@gmail.com?

Reading the article, the main use for the TLD check is to see if you have a typo, and if so suggest a correction - rather than automatically correcting the typo for you. Which I agree could be useful for the big email providers. (e.g you type gmial and it suggests a correction of gmail).

Yeah or you could always use this as animal feed.

In the UK they have seen a resurgence (rabbit) in the supermarket last few months.

Isn't it healthier/better to eat herbivores?

From my experience you can pretty much teach your pallette to like foods. I didn't like green tea, olives or whisky the first time I tried them. Now I love them.

Yeah there's someone in Shropshire in the UK growing it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/23885313

Perhaps users are aware of relative domain names and addressing. You even see this on a service like gmail's login. A user with the address example@gmail.com doesn't have to enter '@gmail.com' when logging in - just 'example'. But actually either will do. Further it's not totally clear for a user what to enter here. Is a username/id is the same thing as an email address or not.

My aunt swears blind that an email address without the name in double quotes and the domainy bit is not a correct email address. She types the lot out.

Perhaps I do operate it. Can be very useful on say a dev box.

And this could be abused. I sign up to a popular service with someone else's email address. I could be a nuisance and block them from signing up as themselves, even it if it is temporary.

Also sometimes you don't even need the TLD:

user@myhostname, is a valid email address, and yet it's rejected by a lot of libraries.

Isn't this pointless with the wholesale of TLDs?

I think though you're an exception. What a luxury. It sounds like you've weighed up the environmental pros and cons for your locale, which is more than most do.

I still think there's better use for that land than raising cattle on it. I can't help but think that good meat is reserved for the luxury of a few, that includes well raised organic meats. It's only the wealthy people that I know that can afford such.

This cows on natural prairies idea is pretty much bullshit. Unless you are talking about some maasai tribes that bleed out their cattle for protein shakes. Cattle farming is huge agricultural business. And for most people their meat is farmed (with additional inputs).

Europeans decimated the Americas for their corn fed fatty marbled cattle. The rainforests are being cleared for soy, as with most arable crops a high percentage are grown as animal feeds. So there isn't any escape. Eating a cow has collateral damage too.

Take a fraction of those arable crops, don't bother meat farming and move over to better farming methods that are more in tune with nature. It's a balancing act.

If you haven't any ethical qualms about meat eating then you can still farm those fringe places pastorally - reindeer, goats, kangaroos etc.

Good point. But we should be thinking about supporting the masses.

If I have a hillside that isn't being used for anything else, than fair enough, I could throw a couple of sheep/goats on it and later reap the rewards.

I'm not sure how many of these romantic pastures continue to exist though. I live in a green fertile valley, where sheep farming is rife. The sheep get additional feed on top of their grazing. I'd prefer acres of trees or some other arable crop instead. Sadly most of us won't ever get access to the land to do so.

Less than 1% of the population owns 70% of the land, running Britain a close second to Brazil for the title of the country with the most unequal land distribution on Earth. - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-ho...

Hilarious to read people writing that they'd be better off with steak as a protein source, it might be better for you - but not the planet. We'd be better of as a species by eating the grains directly and bypassing the animals. Silly food subsidies (at least in the UK), subsidise meat and dairy over grain and veg. For example it's cheaper to buy sausages than it is to buy aubergines. Pretty senseless!

Couscous is really just white pasta, a refined carb. So I see it as an energy provider rather than something nutritional. Whereas quinoa is a wholefood. There's currently a shortage and hence it's rocketed in price. It used to be cheaper to buy for me than rice. I'm a fan. It does have a subtle nutty/smokey taste. Red quinoa is even nicer. Both nice with roasted veg, garlic and tomatoes. And as another has said a pleasant change from rice and potatoes.

It's probably a hardy crop if it's a relative of spinach. I'm in the UK, and I'd like to see more of it grown here.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530924

Basically meta-data being used to trace people's footsteps - their mobile footprints - to look for potential perps that may have abducted Madeleine.

This is frightening. I'd like an end to this story. But this feels like it's a crossing a line. And can be used for further justification for the surveillance state.

In Windows 8 there are two different keyboard shortcuts to move windows between displays depending on whether you are in desktop or metro mode. That's a bit of a downer. It still doesn't address the use case where I have a monitor turned off. Blindly trying to grab windows in the dark isn't clever.

I have a desktop PC connected to my TV in one room, with a HDMI cable, and a monitor in the other. I'd like to just play games and use media centre on either monitor. But I can't do this easily. The current fudge of a solution is to yank the cables out of the back of the PC or swap them over. Which is a pain, as I want the machine hidden away. I'd like to easily control where the audio ends up aswell, but that's another topic. Actually ideally, I'd like my partner to be able to use media-centre, while I'm using the other monitor in the room next door. I don't think that's a wild idea.

A lot of good ideas have been kicking about in various window managers and add ons for a decade. So why not steal and implement these ideas with a little polish?

I have similar issues under Linux, but if I could be bothered I could probably at least script it.

If somethnig like a Ubuntu Edge, gets traction, than it will be really important to get this kind of thing working correctly.

I like the way OSX detects monitors, and I like the way you can easily arrange the displays, but there's still an assumption that you'll be keeping them all on.

It's painful to watch people use multi-monitor setups, which is a shame because using them could be far more intuitive and productive. I'm intrigued to read more about the changes in Mavericks.

Funny that, I bought a copy a copy of Windows 8 because I'd read that multi-monitor support was better. But it still didn't work for me. Mainly because I don't necessarily want both my displays on at the same time. And I want to switch my primary monitor as and when I feel like it. I don't want windows appearing on off monitors. And if they do I want to be able to grab and group them.

Then there's window management. Which I think is pretty woeful on both Windows and OSX. I want to be able to send a window to another display easily. Switch focus etc Without having to fumble about with the mouse like an idiot. Not wonder why I can't do anything because some modal window is hidden somewhere on another monitor.

I've given up on multi-monitors, they are just not worth it for me until these issues are addressed. Multi-desktops will have to suffice instead.

In short: I want plug and play monitor support and good window management baked into OSs.

Or perhaps Mactart for those that like flashing their devices publicly.

Really? Not for me, and I' m on Nightly. Perhaps we are talking about different things.

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The thing is though. That really the semantic markup is already there in the table. So I don't see why the browser in this case can't just help you out a little. You could click the table, and the whole thing pop out in a 'table viewer'. Or the browser could use a tool tip, and ghost the headers on scroll or something.

If I want a fixed header on a table. Couldn't I just fix the body height on the tbody, and use an overflow: scroll, to achieve the same effect? or am I missing something?

Forgive me as I'm still unsure as to what position:sticky actually means. Is it to keep the headings on screen?

Thanks. How I hate embedded video! I wish authors would at least give an alternative download for their resources. Beats having to dig around in the source.

That one is a little too large a video a file size for my tariff, will have to watch later.

I've seen this kind of behaviour on a few sites. I thought it was achieved by having the position fixed on the element, as soon as JS detected that the element was moving out of the document window.

There's a time and a place for this sort of thing. I personally get a little annoyed with fixed headers as it can break text paging. Text gets hidden under the header. When you hit page-down you get another page worth of text but the fixed element obscures the text.

Can position: sticky help with something like that?