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P.S. Android phones used to look like this. After the iPhone, they coincidentally and miraculously all adopted the exact same shiny black front and chrome frame. Funny how that works, huh?

Or how about these?
http://i.imgur.com/nlH6O.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/k9Gvb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y02dd.jpg

If last one is still too complex for you, then you need to turn to CLI....

Or how about these?
http://i.imgur.com/nlH6O.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/k9Gvb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y02dd.jpg

If last one is still too complex for you, then you need to turn to CLI....

Or how about these?
http://i.imgur.com/nlH6O.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/k9Gvb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y02dd.jpg

If last one is still too complex for you, then you need to turn to CLI....

http://i.imgur.com/TjvDV.jpg

Is that too complex?

my only wish is to have bottom blue areas converted back to non-colored ones... they made that change few small versions ago.

I've uploaded some examples for you see what to expect to http://qbrosr.imgur.com/all/
Those photos are some years old, were taken with a EOS350D with a 24-70mm F/2.8. Most pictures were taken with F/3.5, 1/40 and ISO1600. None of them uses flash.

First off, how is anything you said a reply to what I've said? I didn't even mention OSX

>ubuntu is a ripoff of OSX

Explain to me how Unity, the default desktop, rips off OSX "down to the icons" when it clearly doesn't.

Explain to me how KDE or Gnome3, which are not the default desktop, is a ripoff of OSX.

>I haven't seen Ubuntu.

http://i.imgur.com/eUo63.jpg

What now, bitch?

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BMO

Techradar wants to talk and judge usability of the all-time favourite linux desktops, and yet their own website looks like THIS: http://i.imgur.com/IOyKu.png

I know other browsers render it centered, but that's not the (only) point, it's that their web looks awful: about 1/4 is margins, which is OK, and of those 3/4 1/4 is the content, which is split into 7 tiny sections (just give me the whole article and don't make me page every 3 paragraphs, it's almost 2012, for christ sakes!), tiny text, tiny images, and 3/4 of crap (related content, ads, menus, more related content, more related content).

It's not like they can't provide a very valid examination of linux desktops, but their site does not inspire very much credibility when they themselves get it so wrong, IMHO.

The same company they're suing for imitating (in their eyes) the same product they're going to make in the new factory? Strange bedfellows indeed.

True but it's a mistake that's not so hard to make.

With the death of the Android Update Alliance that promised timely updates for Android devices, it'll probably be a while before other phones even have a hope of seeing this update. This is going to be yet another major Android version out in the wild. Collectively, Android is more like a collection of related but not entirely compatible operating systems, and it's frustrating (particularly for developers) that there isn't a consistent version of the operating system on current phones.

Despite improvements, ICS isn't quite as smooth and responsive as iOS was four years ago on the first iPhone, and it's really becoming quite an annoyance that Google hasn't yet solved this. Much of the reason has to do with the technical foundations Android was based on, rooted in an time when the Blackberry was the most popular smartphone, and Android was expected to drive phones with keyboard input. In that scenario, interface responsiveness wash't as high a priority.

Android was started in 2003 development, while iOS was started in 2005, and before the iPhone came out, the Android emulator looked like this. It wasn't until Apple's little announcement in 2007 that Android suddenly needed to compete on real-time performance, including smooth, touch-based scrolling. iOS is based entirely on Core Animation, with every interface element backed by a GPU-accelerated layer. Android has been CPU-driven, adding bits and pieces of hardware acceleration but not adopting the kind of unified model iOS was based on.

I don't really know why Android's performance hasn't been brought up to par, or why it's taken four years for it to reach the point that ICS has reached. I suspect the requirement to remain generalized and adaptable across multiple hardware devices means many of the design decisions that Apple went with for iOS simply can't be utilized, at least not to the same degree.

By the way, I'm amused at how negative the review is toward previous Android releases, particularly in terms of performance and interface responsiveness, since any time someone brought these common performance criticisms up on Slashdot, they'd always immediately get modded down and their karma ruined:

"Surprisingly, Google never got Gingerbread working smoothly on the Nexus S, and running the stock version of 2.3.6 was a painful experience."

"The old assumption that even a dual core Android phone is not as smooth as a single core iPhone doesn’t apply any more. Apple users will probably still notice some missed frames in animations or small amounts of lag when things are being loaded in the background, but this is no longer a serious usability issue, more a cosmetic one."

"The OS looks much much slicker overall even on the relatively old Nexus S, compared to the cartoonish primitive look of stock Gingerbread."

"The browser gets a much needed overhaul as the stock 2.3 browser was slow and laggy. It is now much faster, smoother to use, and generally stays out of the way like a good browser should."

"To conclude, with no definite date for ICS upgrades for other phones, the Nexus S is a great buy. It is a great example of the importance of software over hardware in a phone, a lesson well learnt from Apple."

That chart only covers the ice-core data, which doesn't include the past few hundred years. Google "CO2 ppmv" and "methane ppbv" and you'll see that the current levels are off the charts. I've even graphed it out for you here. Sorry about my shitty photoshop skills.

The short reason is that Android was first conceived as a Blackberry competitor, with most input coming from a keyboard. High-priority interface responsiveness wasn't as much a concern in that environment. The Android simulator used to look like this. The iPhone came out and blew everyone away, made touchscreens all the rage, and Android changed to compete. The fact 2011 Android interface responsiveness is not competitive with the 2007 iPhone is something of an embarrassment, in my opinion, but the technical foundation was just not designed to deliver that kind of experience, while iOS was designed from the ground up to support it (every interface element is backed by a GPU-accelerated Core Animation layer).

Not sure if song lyrics; Or about to kill themselves

I coach a college club team and have numerous of them added to my Facebook (in their own little partitioned group). 95% of the time they're being "depressed" it's just some song lyric. I hope there is a quick google lyrics search before deciding to suggest this service.

hahaha ok chum.

Here is something visual. http://i.imgur.com/HgpdX.jpg

U.S. Frequency Allocation Chart

Yea, except the show I'm going to be on isn't cops, and the viewing audience for the show I will be on is much more educated, as well as the show itself being about agriculture and such.

Of course, your name gives away your instant bias. Shame on you thinking I'm producing marijuana-cultivation systems.

That look like weed to you, son?

Oh, I'm sorry, did you want this grass?

Gonna have to wait another decade, I wager.

And while in bad fashion, I thought I'd keep the 'spam' contained within my post here.

A peep inside while the BBC was filming there this past Monday.

The pictures.

I decided it was real when I saw someone post Zuck's photos.

http://i.imgur.com/66fp5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EjALn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/66fp5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EjALn.jpg

I think there may be a bit of a problem with the electronic counting system that they've been using (these are the stats for Rostov - add up the percentages...).

On the other hand, everything's as planned in Chechnya.

It is a minor source of amusement to me to periodically price out a MacBook, and then find an equivalent model on NewEgg, to find out just how many spare, identical laptops I could purchase for the same cost of the Macbook.

Last time I checked, I believe it was 3-- that is, every year for 3 years, I could toss out my smudged, scratched PC laptop and start up on a new one, and it would still make more financial sense than getting the Mac.

Just in case you dont believe me,
http://imgur.com/kvUkV
Whats that, the comparison isnt fair? The PC has better specs than the mac, and is half the price? Yea, well, thats what you get when you get a Mac, noone said the comparison was fair.

What rascals, those Hewlett & Packard

You're right, wrong website. Slashdot doesn't appreciate my humor.

The iPhone 4S' identification string reads "iPhone4,1".

Yet I'm confidant that I could post\publish this* and still be safe, right here in the bible belt. Sure, I might not be getting fan letters from the neighbors, but I wouldn't be attacked violent either.

*NSFW Warning: May contain gay porn of Jesus.

<rot13>Qbrf vg ybbx onq vs V cbfg guvf nabalzbhfyl?</rot13>.

Also, Transmet.

You think this required four $150/hour developers working for four weeks? I could have 1 indian guy write it in an afternoon for $500 and he'd be so happy I'd probably be on his christmas card list.

You think this cost $200k? Let me guess, you work for the government?

You mean like, if you had read the fucking article? Or were you going for sarcasm?

http://imgur.com/q2ikp.jpg

http://imgur.com/33Ll6

It's an opt-in notification that you get the first time you turn on the phone, then it never bothers you again.

You're only reading half the story. They are not allowed to bring anything back in after the park is "cleared". http://i.imgur.com/TMxmg.jpg

Better than your sensationalist trolling rubbish about not being able to bring anything back in. It couldn't be clearer, it's written right there:
If you decide to return you will not be permitted to bring tents, sleeping bags, tarps and similar materials with you.

Assuming that you are actually wondering where they put it and aren't just bitching about the lack of customizability: they moved it to the URL bar.

Circled in red in the pic: http://i.imgur.com/Oz6mS.png

> It might also help you not look like a complete fucking retard if you paid attention to the
> phrase : Protesters can return after the park is cleared.

You're only reading half the story. They are not allowed to bring anything back in after the park is "cleared".
http://i.imgur.com/TMxmg.jpg

It's a clear attempt to sabotage the entire right to assemble/protest.

As far as the "private property" argument, something about that sounds dubious. If it were a private corp who owned prime space in downtown new york you can damn betcha it would have apartments stacked up as far and wide as legally possible.

A judge even thinks so this morning too.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/266582-order-re-liberty-park/

You can assemble, you just can't squat/live there.

> It might also help you not look like a complete fucking retard if you paid attention to the
> phrase : Protesters can return after the park is cleared.

You're only reading half the story. They are not allowed to bring anything back in after the park is "cleared".
http://i.imgur.com/TMxmg.jpg

It's a clear attempt to sabotage the entire right to assemble/protest.

As far as the "private property" argument, something about that sounds dubious. If it were a private corp who owned prime space in downtown new york you can damn betcha it would have apartments stacked up as far and wide as legally possible.

A judge even thinks so this morning too.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/266582-order-re-liberty-park/

IE 10 will give FF a run for its money and even Chrome next March when it is released.

I'm not so sure about that. IE 10 got 6 fails while Firefox got 164 and Chrome got 415? All well and good, but note that Opera 11.52 got 3750 fails. That's a huge amount, but then the commenters note that Opera 11.60 beta gets a total of... 11 fails.

So Opera 11.52 to Opera 11.60 brings the fail count down from 3750 to 11? Given how fast Opera seem to have improved their total, I'd think Mozilla and Google can probably do similar and IE's excellent score may just be a matter of timing. In other words, the test you cited may well be meaningless.

Manipal Institute of technology, India
The syllabus isnt online, but here is a photo os PHY101
http://imgur.com/TmiCo

I quite like Jeannie, although she refused to open the pod bay doors and forgot my name. When I asked for a picture of an elephant I got this:
http://i.imgur.com/Z9N2O.png

This image.

Why can't your desktop look cool and be productive?

Not that mine looks cool, or I am particularly productive; I only ask why the two need to be mutually exclusive. What's wrong with wanting it to look nice?

Why can't your desktop look cool and be productive?

Not that mine looks cool, or I am particularly productive; I only ask why the two need to be mutually exclusive. What's wrong with wanting it to look nice?

"we're just about at the end of basic air cooling"

Not even close.

See this? This is 300w in a 30mm x 30mm package.

Regular aluminum/copper/combo heatsinks simply won't cool it.

A copper-cored heat sink covered with high-pressure blasted carbon dust has zero issues keeping it cool.

Bear in mind I had to use an Itanium II MX2 heat sink (already rated for 260+w TDP) and modify it a bit (pure copper wouldn't dissipate/radiate heat fast enough) but we're by NO means done with air cooling.

Especially with Mesophasic Carbon Pitch with 1,000w/mK+ TC (4x better than copper) coming out soon.

http://i.imgur.com/tPdL9.jpg

Also:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Go back 11 years and start reading that blog.

Like the number of spiders the average human will swallow in their sleep, this is one statistic some people are simply better off not knowing.

Don't be misinformed. That rumor is just wrong.
Here's an infographic that explains the TRUTH. http://i.imgur.com/EyeGN.jpg

They don't seem to try too hard to license "new" content anyway. Here's what Netflix for Argentina looks like: http://i.imgur.com/Sxx2B.jpg

The hunt for red october? REALLY?

No wonder no one I know is subscribing. I told many of my friends about that but when netflix finally got here, it was a disappointment. I have some friends in Chile who had the same feeling.

ALmost there http://i.imgur.com/KxrYN.png

I bet you could easily whittle that down to less than 50 who effectively control just about everything in the first-world--when you factor in subsidiaries, companies they invest in or who invest in or depend on them, companies they partner with extensively, etc. Just look at the web of control that the major banking companies alone exert. When a handful of companies in a single industry are so powerful that if they fail, your ENTIRE ECONOMY (and that of many other countries) collapses, I would say they effectively own you. That's way more powerful than any mere group of individual citizens could ever hope to be.

Relevant: http://i.imgur.com/KxrYN.png