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It certainly won't work when there are usable default or better alternatives already available on PCs that allow it.

I have a tablet I've mentioned many times, the Motorola Xoom it's also has a 10.1-inch display
as does the Nokia Lumia 2520. I feel that's the perfect size any larger and it wouldn't be a tablet,
any smaller is akin to using ones cell phone.

10.1-inch display puts me to sleep with netflix, youtube or a movie while it's in it's cradle.
The Kindle Fire 7 inch display is just too small for me.

Yep Nokia did the right thing at 10.1, WXGA (1280 x 800) for the Motorola Xoom, but the keyboard thingjust messes it up.
I use Hackers keyboard (software) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard
or a bluetooth keyboard for mine They don't connect to each other but I carry them both around protected by an old laptop case, a real sharp combo.
My Keyboard is as small as one can be while still having full sized keys, it's seriously sweet (Dell MN-Y-RAQ-DEL2 - Goodwill $5.00).

The Motorola Xoom hooks up to my HDTV (at 1920 x 1080 ) as I imagine does the Nokia Lumia 2520; a remote keyboard is very handy
using office / text editor at a distance and for so many other reasons.

Except don't expect CyanogenMod to be in the future https://plus.google.com/106978520009932034644/posts/L8FJkrcahPs .Ironically because open source is the reason for their assistance they seem to be trying hard to wreck a great model fro them.

https://plus.google.com/106978520009932034644/posts/L8FJkrcahPs This is Guillaume Lesniak Google+ post about CyanogenMod's Focal camera app. He doesn't like that licensing changes accompanying the new venture would limit his control. Accordingly, he has removed Focal from CyanogenMod

Except don't expect CyanogenMod to be in the future https://plus.google.com/106978520009932034644/posts/L8FJkrcahPs .Ironically because open source is the reason for their assistance they seem to be trying hard to wreck a great model fro them.

https://plus.google.com/106978520009932034644/posts/L8FJkrcahPs This is Guillaume Lesniak Google+ post about CyanogenMod's Focal camera app. He doesn't like that licensing changes accompanying the new venture would limit his control. Accordingly, he has removed Focal from CyanogenMod

Nigerians are paying a higher price. I guess you think Nigeria's politicians also meddle in the Middle East?

Also Thailand. They had 173 terrorist incidents in 2011. Their government must meddle in the Middle East a lot.

That must be it.

maybe i wont wear my nsa t shirt

https://www.google.com/#q=nsa+t+shirt

Just how broken is it? Let's find out.

I tried creating an account early Sunday morning and failed.
I tried again Sunday evening, and it worked... on Firefox, anyway. On Chrome, logging in took me to a blank screen.
( See https://plus.google.com/u/0/113779301404424240904/posts/2mxh2wPTein )

If you try creating an account on healthcare.gov, reply here with what happened. Let's see how broken it is.

But, lately its chrome that has been causing me lots of grief. It seems speed is more important than actually rendering things properly.

Take for example the chrome rowspan 0 bug, https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+rowspan+0

Still broken as of 30.0.1599.101, rowspan=0 in chrome is basically rowspan=1 which completely misses the point.

Joe Sixpack and Lisa Liberal don't seem to care.

Some people have been studying the phenomenon of "upheval" in it's generic form. It's spawned a lot of studies/papers and even popular books, viz: The Tipping Point.

The overall summary is that you can't just point out how bad something is, you have to give people an action they can take to help fix the problem.

There is widespread distrust, anger, and annoyance at the NSA due to the revelations. There's no public outrage because there's really nothing anyone can do. "Joe Sixpack" has no actions to take: voting doesn't help, writing congresscritters doesn't help, even public mass demonstrations don't seem to help. What you are seeing is Learned Helplessness: an animal doesn't take actions to help themselves, because they're convinced that the actions will have no effect.

Consider the recent history of cell phones or music distribution: people were complaining that cell phones were a walled ecology with no innovation and poor functionality. You had to get carrier approval to run a program on a cell phone, and they would only allow the simplest, meager functionality. You were lucky if your carrier allowed you to have tetris.

People complained that if you wanted music, you had to purchase a physical CD, for an ensemble collection and for an exorbitant fee. Usually you had to purchase an entire CD for a single song you liked.

As soon as an option was given, people flocked to the new systems in droves, uptake was very fast.

Make secure E-mail easy to use with trivial installation and the situation will change overnight. There will be a flood of new users.

Everyone hates the situation, but for most people there's nothing they can do about it.

I like the emacs org mode (also available for vim, and even your mobile), though primarily for structured outlines/note-taking, its markup allows document formatting and it can export to a range of formats including PDF.

Notes, documents, TODOs, all in one format.

No, "not in stealth mode" means they are now publishing like clockwork.

Enlightment is just one scholar.google.com search away.

It works. During the WWII there were around 700,000 wood gas powered automobiles in Germany, France, Sweden and Finland. As those were back then able to power buses and trucks, it's plausible to think modern designs also producing 20kW of bio power - as advertised.

Finland's eco-mobilist association has a gallery of hobbyist build wood gas mobiles, some even with designs specs and tips. Chairman on the Finland's currently most popular party, which unfortunately isn't The Pirate Party which among others has pirate bay and privacy activist Peter Sunde as a candidate in the coming EU- parliament election, has build his own wood gas automobile - " El Kamina" which by the way is build on top Chevrolet El Camino, which...

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And there are other flow-based systems that significantly pre-date LabView. For one, the flow-based system IBM's Morrison developed for a Canadian bank decades ago that's is still in use.

And another, lesser known (but perhaps more relevant in today's world) implementation of a similar idea from the middle 1980's, and was explained in the the not-as-famous-as-it-ought-to-be paper, The UNIX Shell as a Fourth Generation Language. (FWIW, *every* Unix/Linux programmer or power user should be very familiar with this paper and Mike Gancarz' "Unix Philosophy".)

Interestingly, the idea in the paper (build database and data manipulation operators as fast filters that you string together with pipes to form a flow-based system) has been implemented similarly several times: the original /rdb implementation by RSW Software (rdb.com), several other variations (called rdb, Rdb, RDB, etc.), Starbase (which, as it's aimed at astronomers, includes some interesting ephemerides filters for tables), and a more modern implementation, NoSQL (yep, that's its *name*, and it had it years before today's trendy NoSQL dbs...)

These systems generally use flat text files for tables, which means your app benefits from any filesystem improvements (they scream on a RAMfs, or a layered FS like unionfs or aufs with a RAM front-end), and backup, version control, and ETL are made orders of magnitude easier than usual. This idea on something like Ousterhout's new RAMcloud would be flat amazing...

It's not MB specific. The logic seems to be that if the environment supports it, but secure boot is disabled, then show watermark.

A multitude of different systems are affected, from typical boards used by enthusiasts to OEM laptops where the Secure Boot options have simply been "hidden" away to not confuse users.

I could understand a temporary alert... but this is fucked as hell.

Concentrations of money and power? http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203752604576641683529031952

It's both sides. Sadly it takes a "global economic meltdown" (see link) to attempt to negotiate with the president, but even that failed. https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX%3A.DJI%2CINDEXSP%3A.INX%2CINDEXNASDAQ%3A.IXIC&ei=3fFiUpCDGdGu0AHIKQ

Yet again, Republicans fail because they can't get their shit together and provide one coherent message and the Democrats keep getting what they want.

I love Lennart Poettering's response:

It's really appalling how GNOME first NIH'ed Unity, and then the Wayland guys came and NIH'ed Mir, and then the git guys came and NIH'ed bzr, and then the github guys and came and NIH'ed launchpad. But the systemd guys are still the worst, NIH'ing Upstart! Such suckers! Let's stand together against NIH'ing Canonical technology!

https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/RCfN9NwZrLN

NIH is only a problem if you "invent" something inferior to what's already there. And really, NIH is an intellectual weak argument that someone uses when they lack the stones to make an argument based on metrics that are actually meaningful. Lennart is actually very clear on the technical reasons why he chose to create systemd even if Mark wants to remain ignorant of them.

Also, we'll know that Mark as actually done his homework when he learns the proper capitalization of systemd. Come on Mark, at least read the fucking cover page and FAQ.

Seigo has posted on Google+ an invitation to Shuttleworth to a public debate on Mir vs. Wayland issues.

Film is not "biased" towards people with "light skin." ... I think this whole article is a trollish attempt to inject a "racial issue" where there is none.

No, no; the universe REALLY IS biased against you.....

2.1.6 Sentence 4: Why does the universe prefer matter over antimatter?

Physicists have announced that more matter particles are generated than antimatter

A team working with data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider says it has discovered a particle that decays unevenly into matter and antimatter.

.... that is, if you're made out of antimatter. If so, then to make us for the total unfairness of everything, I'll give you a BIG hug.


Back on topic, I agree. Some people are looking for biases and problems where none exist and keep on finding them.

Reminds me of the Face on Mars. You're looking for something that isn't there and finding it in the noise. That fine -- but you need more supporting evidence to back up your "findings" rather that just point and say, "Look -- look! There it is!"

Yuck.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1+euro+in+usd

Citation? Google said they wanted to use Motorola to explore and demonstrate how to tightly integrate the Android OS with hardware. It was to be Android done right, just like their Chromebook was to be ChromeOS done right.

http://www.google.com/press/motorola/

"Motorola Mobilityâ(TM)s patent portfolio will help protect the Android ecosystem. Android, which is open-source software, is vital to competition in the mobile device space, ensuring hardware manufacturers, mobile phone carriers, applications developers and consumers all have choice. "

As far as "Motorola to explore and demonstrate how to tightly integrate the Android OS with hardware. "

How is that working out for them?

1. Motorola's volumes are so small that they are not even in the top 5.
2. Google is still "beholden" to other manufacturers to make Nexus devices.

The Kindle and other non-locked-in Android devices are still a big win for Google

How is that? The Kindle devices don't use any Google services.

Modern programmers don't debug their code, because after all, bugs are no big deal.

That might see strange, but most bugs can be covered up by restarting every time something goes wrong. Which is what most web servers do, they restart on every single request.

In fact, it's still available for Android in the Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaasa.gianasisters&hl=en

What exactly are you concerned about them loosing? Maybe some horrible monster they've been keeping in their basement? Or a bio-genetic plague?

Why can't you just tow the line and give him free reign? It passed the spell checker, isn't that all that counts?

What exactly are you concerned about them loosing? Maybe some horrible monster they've been keeping in their basement? Or a bio-genetic plague?

Can't Named Unix Named Pipes Be Used To Do This. Seems like the parts are there.

Yep, partly done alreday. Have a look here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/flow-based-programming/shell/flow-based-programming/PC96WYOAwAU/ICRZg_5K1XMJ

As the commenter above me pointed out, the word is real. It goes along with another word (or words):

Obfuscation -- https://www.google.com/#q=define%20obfuscation

Also obfuscate and obfuscatory.

"Good! Now maybe people will begin to see the others as stupid too!"

The odds are stacked against you - about 47% of the human population lacks a paracingulate sulcus, the brain structure most responsible for differentiating reality from imagined reality (as a consequence of memory processing). Somewhere over 90% of schizophrenics lack this structure, which lends credence to the theory of an evolution of consciousness and a natural origin of religions.

There appears to be a moderate evolutionary advantage to having the sulcus - we'd expect the presence of one to be lower in antiquity, but if we figure a halving in 10,000 years, you're going to be waiting a long time until it's a tiny minority.

I've been experimenting with Sleep as Android which uses your phone's accelerometer to measure your physical movements and thus your mental state during sleep, When it detects REM sleep it plays an audio loop "you are dreaming". Not managed to do anything exciting in my dreams yet but looks promising to me.

...much more complex than any one diagram van express. Why not break down the problem and create multiple diagrams, one to solve each problem? Well there you have it,...

So if the hippies had only chained together a series of these instead of using them discretely, our world might have been a much better place?

That's simply false. The Free Software Foundation and the Red Cross are corporations. Do you think they focus on making money?
Google has given away over a BILLION dollars to charity.

Shareholders have a cause of action if board members or executives take company assets and convert them to their PERSONAL use in a way that damages shareholders.
The board and executives are serving as representatives of the shareholders, so they aren't allowed to put their personal gain above the interests of the shareholders they represent.
The clearest example of that is that the CEO can't "donate" $100,000 of shareholder money to himself. They can, and do, donate to causes that don't directly benefit the executives making the decision.

"If they could we'd probably have free energy and plentiful drinking water by now."

Funny you should mention that. Google has given millions to water projects in Africa, like this one:
http://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html#charity_water

. If they could we'd probably have free energy and plentiful drinking water by now.

Indeed, unix pipes, especially if usning named FIFOs as well, is a subset of the Flow based programming paradigm fullfilling quite a bit of it's specifications. A full FBP implementation adds a few things like option ports (could be done in shell with parameters though), custom information packet design (is only text strings in unix), and so called "initiation information packets", and surely a few more.

There is actually an attempt at implementing a full FBP system in shell scripts only, which is kind of cool. It was discussed in the flow based programming forum,here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/flow-based-programming/shell/flow-based-programming/PC96WYOAwAU/ICRZg_5K1XMJ

Indeed LabView is quite close to the FBP specification. Have a look at this thread in the flow based programming forum where this is discussed in quite some detail:
* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/flow-based-programming/zhkfHlunu5Y/kYDGVsqtQaoJ

You should all do some homework before throwing out all this prejudice. Flow based programming has been successfully used in many implementations ever since it's invention in the 70's at IBM. One Canadian bank has been running (and maintaining) an FBP program continuously for over 40 years!

You are right that FBP (or something very close) can be found in successful systems such as Unix pipes, LabView and Apple quartz composer. If you read FBP inventor J P Morrisons canonical book on the topic (linked below) though, you will notice that there are some details to the FBP specifications that should be observed, in order to gain all the full benefits of a full-featured FBP implementation.

Some homework suggestions for you all:

1. Why not start with NoFlo creator, Henri Bergius' excellent post, "NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective":
      http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/
2. Watch the intro video to FBP and NoFlo:
      http://vimeo.com/72065207
3. Read up/watch some more on the NoFlo (finished) kickstarter page:
      http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noflo/noflo-development-environment
4. Read up a bit on FBP inventor J P Morrisons website:
      http://jpaulmorrison.com/
5. Join the discussion in the FBP group:
      https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flow-based-programming
6. Join the FBP Google+ community:
      http://gplus.to/flowbased
7. Last but not least, read the book!
      http://tinyurl.com/fbpbook

This is a key point; though google do let you target devices:
https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722028 and cariers.

By "strong Conservative/Tory assault", you mean the horrors of a competitive tender process to try and find the cheapest provider, so you can offer the most efficient service? Or do you mean they've cut funding? Why ever could that be? I know, I know, conservatives just hate poor people, and the fact that the UK's debt is now 90% of it's GDP is irrelevant - they should just keep pouring money into the NHS and hope the problem just goes away.

Margaret Thatcher still applies - the problem with socialism is, eventually you run out of other people's money. Well, the UK has run out. Now it's running out of money it can borrow too.

Pick the refridgerated items last before checkout. The date on the milk container is a 'sell by' date. Choose wisely. Look towards the back of the shelf for the latest 'sell by' date. Choosing from the back of the shelf—particularly in the case of milk—means that your milk won't have acquired the Light Activated Taste because it was sitting next to the flourescent shelf lighting. Supermarkets always stock the freshest items at the back of the shelf—watch the bread man stock his product.

Python is being suggested frequently here. If you do go with that, I'd strongly suggest taking a look at the Spyder IDE:
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
It's especially useful for scientific work and entirely cross-platform. I even have it running under FreeBSD.

Google Auth is based on an open standard & it is open source.

To be more specific, Google Auth (source code is here: http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/) is based on RFCs 4226 ("HOTP: An HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm") and 6238 ("TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm").

You can't really do experiments in economics (there's too many variables to actually have a control), but you can look at analysis of Iceland rejecting austerity and see their result versus the results in countries that did not follow their lead.

Says the techie who has no clue how incredibly out of touch with reality he is

Not at all. I hardly ever recommend Linux to non-techies because I've seen the issues it often causes. But I think it still stands that in 2004 SuSE was roughly equally as easy to install as Ubuntu. Someone who could have installed Ubuntu back then could have installed SuSE. Here's the Ubuntu 4 install: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEmm8-PgRHM Here's the SuSE 9 install guide: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDQQFjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.suse.com%2Fdocumentation%2Fsuse%2Fpdfdoc%2FSuSE-Linux-Userguide-9.0.0.0b.pdf&ei=EBFgUqOgIs_I4AOsmoCIDg&usg=AFQjCNHsSqsGhjaVKbO9Fy6_uoWO0-VeQg&sig2=Y2s_E1MNJQVki19DH-rtnQ&bvm=bv.54176721,d.dmg&cad=rja If you look at the "quick install" section for SuSE you'll see that it's about as complicated as the Ubuntu install, plus it's not ncurses and has a nice GUI.

Then try US man dies in er waiting room.

I said it was better than in the U.S., not that it was great. Even from the first paragraph though, it sounds like that situation is not being tolerated in Mexico.

Unlike some of the U.S. horror stories (one good anecdote deserves ac dozen others), nobody died.

So who is uninformed again?

What do you mean "Wrong"?

http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/

Try this

Do you really think "rental agency" when you "pay rent"? I've never payed my monthly rent to a "rental agency", in Texas or anywhere else.

Let's ask Google.

Judging from the first page of hits... yea, I'm not the only one to associate a "rental agency" with "paying rent" with "an apartment".

Starting this past May or so, many Gmail users received a new "Attach Money" option that lets them send money through a Gmail email. It's integrated with their Google Wallet, which stores credit card info and uses that for payment. You can see more details at: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3141103?hl=en I saw the "attach money" option appear just last month for me, while composing a new email. It seems a lot more convenient than registering for a new Square account and using their strange "subject and cc" method. I'd expect the Gmail version to be much more likely to catch on than this Square one.

I tried android for a couple of weeks to see what I was missing. I asked all my android owning friends "OK, what should I check out that I can not do on my iPhone". About the only useful response I got was wifi scanning tools. That was it. Which i don't use my phone for anyway.

Then your friends either aren't very smart, or are simply happy with their stock Android and have never wanted to change it.

Homescreen widgets, a decently-sized screen, NFC file sharing, third party keyboards (or a physical one if you prefer), custom launchers, completely customizable app icon placement (including whitespace where you want whitespace), ability to add a huge micro sd card to double your storage size (or swap it if you're bored with the media on this card and want something different for a road trip), ability to add and remove arbitrary files directly to/from the phone over cable without having to use iTunez spyware to do so, ability to go to pretty much any store and pick up a replacement charger/data cable for $5, support for a pointy stylus (on some models) instead of trying to use a marshmallow-on-the-end-of-a-stick capacitive stylus, etc., etc., etc.

Not to mention being able to take a video in any orientation and have it display correctly (i.e., not rotated 90 degrees) on any system...but from your comments, I'm guessing you partake of the entire apple pie, so you may not have seen this particular defect before if you only view your vids in your phone or on your Mac or via your Apple TV box. Oh, I didn't even know this one: apparently you can't email anything but a photo or video using the stock iPhone email app...huh. Guess you'll have to use the GMail account for business stuff, then...other Android advantages such as haptic feedback are pretty 'meh' for me, as I just turn them off anyway.

Looks like Apple is finally allowing homescreen widgets (?er, maybe? looks like you still need to buy an app?), so that's *one* thing off the list...once developers catch up and start providing more widget types, that is.

All that without having to root or 'jailbreak' the phone. If you root it, sky's the limit. True, most of the things you can do if you root the phone are things that your average Joe won't care much about (custom ROM's, complete bit-wise phone backups, ability to software-switch more system settings, ability to remove the stock apps instead of just disabling them, etc.), but to the tinkerer, they are delightful :)

I can get one from t-mobile for the same or less than a Samsung S-4. I agree you can't do as much. I wrote a little Android program (Shameless Plug) that pops up a contact's picture (sadly the cute girl in the screenshots is a stock pic from the Creative Common's main image site) and keeps it there because I got tired of not noticing the itty bitty missed call notification. It's only pretty recently that I could distribute it to others on the iPhone without jumping through a _lot_ of hoops.

I stopped reading at "Not to mention a UI thatâ(TM)s impossible to navigate."
My bullshit detector went off the scale.

You got that right. For me - a person who never even owned a cell phone before - it took a whole week to figure out how to ditch crappy vendor-grade bowdlerized Android and load cyanogenmod. Then a day or two to master the Cyanogenmod UI, that offers more choices (like, for example, it lets me remove "airplane mode" buttons since I'm not in the frequent air travel socio-economic bracket).

If you need to know something about the Android UI just ask the nearest 13-year-old and you're good to go. It's really like the Apple UIs - completely non-intuitive, yes, but consistent and simple enough that it "feels" intuitive as soon as you learn a few simple concepts. There are no truly intuitive interfaces; even the nipple is learned. Android's UI is reasonably user friendly.

Silicon Valley had that from 1974 to 1976. It was called "Dial a RIde". It was a popular service, but too expensive to provide. The hope was that there would be enough people going in roughly the same directions that the small buses used would fill up. But it turned out that there wasn't enough commonality of destination. Everybody wanted to go some place different, and the buses often had one passenger.

Most successful van systems have a common source or destination - a school or airport. Without some concentrating factor, cabs or cars are more effective.