Isn't the earth flat in burgenland?

No, it's an ellipse with infinite radius.

I for one welcome our new Windows overlords!

Let's hope they pull another Nokia with this, er, beloved company.

> But requiring a phone number for an internet instant messenger is still a deal breaker even with Chromium as an alternative.

Why is that? There's nothing about it in their faq.

Of course you have to get the information from somewhere the first time you learn something. What's the problem with that?

The problem is that this is supposed to be a more-easily-readable form of JSON, but it requires consulting the docs to understand the meaning of something which is completely unambiguous in regular JSON.

> Of course you have to get the information from somewhere the first time you learn something. What's the problem with that?

The first time, and the second time if you haven't looked at it in a month, and a third time a month after that. And so on.

> I am not really confident, but I think it's a close up of a cat.

Hello kitty: http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/024/750/i02/tarantula-...

Not surprisingly, if its training material was scraped from the web, it is biased toward cats, as my experiment also indicated:

http://imgur.com/z4zQLzz

I'm selling my house and discovered that the options in Austria are either boring (just pictures) or expensive.

So I

- rented a Theta camera and took pictures of every room + outdoors

- made up a DSL to define a grid with connecting rooms

- used that to generate scenes for Pannellum (which I tweaked a bit)

- made some clickable svg maps (strangly this was not as easy as I thought)

- and put a bit of bootstrap over it

You can view the result here: http://kaufmeinhaus.at

Pannellum is great btw, see https://pannellum.org

Let me know if you are interested and I'll try to put the code on github.

Microsoft has always been great at naming things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

What does "33 minutes talk time" on http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/devices mean?

Why does it show that on the lock screen?

Various personalised stats show. Each dot around the circle is a day of the month with the current day highlighted. In the centre it will show things like number of minutes, sms sent/received, photos taken, tracks played, miles walked etc. The balloons around the edge are larger on days when you do more. So you get a personal visual representation of how you use your phone.

Disclaimer (because it seems to upset people here), I work for Canonical ;)

I understood it as the phone is currently on a call that has been in progress for 33 minutes, but it seems as though I might have been the only one to draw that conclusion.

I've always seen 'talk time' as how many minutes you can actively be in a phone call before the battery dies. If that is the case this phone is pretty unimpressive.

I suppose you tell it how many minutes you plan contains and it subtracts used time accordingly.

The phone self-destructs after 33 minutes to safeguard against the FBI. ;)

Actually it is a safeguard against the TSA

> the vast majority of people [..] believe backslashes are the way to go

Not sure you got that right. I'm certain there are more people that use forward slashed in a browser (every OS+mobile) than people who type backslashes in Windows.

My mother has used Windows for years and doesn't even know where the backslash character is. She can type URLs though.

I've seen URLs printed on paper, posted on signs, and even printed on the side of napkin dispensers, that use backslashes instead of forward slashes. For a long time, the automated message on my university's services number (admissions, etc) started off by spelling out a URL, complete with two mentions of "backslash".

It's a very common mistake.

The phone message error is different though, they mistakenly think '/' is named backslash. I've heard people say this in person multiple times and when I've had a chance I confirmed that when they said "backslash" they were referring to the '/' character.

As a little kid (~10 years old), I thought it was called a "full colon" (made sense with semicolon, which was my favorite piece of punctuation).

You just brought back memories of some of the first radio ads I heard that mentioned URLs:

"Please visit our world wide web home page at aitch tee tee pee colon, forward slash forward slash, acme period see oh em."

I still hear "backslash" invoked in URLs once in a while, and it still bugs me to no end. It's 2016! You are a radio announcer! You should know how to pronounce URLs by now! So frustrating.

You forgot "double-you double-you double-you"!

OMG, how could I ever forget double-you double-you double-you? And the period too.

If you leave out the double-you double-you double-you period, the world wide web home page won't even work! You get like a dragon lizard or something.

Thank you for reminding me. I think.