I speak my mind. Sometimes I'm modded up, sometimes I'm modded down (even a similar comment in different articles, one comment would be modded up and the other would be modded down - it's bizarre.) In fact, I didn't even know what "karma" was on/. for the longest time.
Overall my "karma" is OK right now, but I don't really pay attention to it.
Damn. The thing that sucks about throwing that alarm... when it goes off again you have to get up to silence it. Maybe I should patent a throwable boomerang clock.
It's like the "Baby on Board" car signs: If I place one in my car's windowpane, polite drivers should see that sign and grant me additional driving space and courtesies, and I may be able to drive in the carpool lane.
That "Baby on Board" sign is meant to let paramedics/first responders on scene of an accident know that you have an infant/toddler on board and to rescue them first. It's not and never was meant to be an indicator to other drivers. You're also not supposed to have it on the car when infants/toddlers are not in the vehicle - but almost nobody I've seen does that.
When the power goes out, all cards are in the air anyway. We had a UPS boo-boo and our enterprise drives (both SCSI & SAS) managed to corrupt data, even with a battery on the controller itself (battery was in good health.)
Shit happens. It's pretty damn difficult to account for power failures... even with battery backups on the local controllers you can only do so much.
Maybe very large Java application can swallow all that RAM.
In my experience with Java apps, you don't need a large app to take a few GB of RAM. Small ones most defintely can! I was using a Java-powered DLNA server and was surprised to see it try to use over 2 GB of RAM!
That's probably why Ubuntu shows less amd64 installs than x86. They could get with the times and recommend amd64 -- my 6 (or was it 7?) year old laptop even supports the amd64 instruction set.
As someone that uses both the shell and GUI config options, what's wrong with a choice? Sometimes configuring things through a GUI is faster. I'm all for that, especially if it can take less of my time.
For running scripted stuff, obviously the shell is better. Both are made for specific purposes.
But, despite the lack of proof; "iPads for all students" continues to be a daily headline where 'some say it greatly enhances education' and no proof is ever given.
Well, sure! The kids improve their ability to calculate angles and trajectories using Angry Birds!
Someone at work was asking me about laptops. She was in the Apple store looking at a new Air and the price tag (I believe it was $1200.) She currently has some run-of-the-mill Dell that's 5 years old.
She was asking if a disk drive was required, and I said to install most software you'd have to buy a USB DVD drive. No big deal. But she also owned Photoshop and whatever Adobe video processing software for Windows. I told her she'd either have to re-buy Windows or buy native Mac versions of her programs. I also said for that $1200 you can get a really well-equipped laptop (her current PC is a desktop) and you wouldn't have to re-buy everything. I told for for even $700 you could get a decent laptop that would run the programs.
Her conclusion? "Macs are too expensive. I like my iPhone, but not enough to buy a Mac computer."
This is someone who doesn't understand technology that much. If someone like that thinks it's too expensive, then it probably is...
I would assume you can pair a keyboard with the iPad. I don't own one, so I can't verify it.
I do, however, have the Nexus 7. I've been using it with my rocketfish bluetooth keyboard for a couple of weeks now. Even the volume controls work on the keyboard. If you have to do some typing it's nice to have a full keyboard - you're right that the onscreen keyboard is... just not right. What's even more annoying is that when the screen or edit box etc loses focus and you have to correct it it's a real pain in the ass to be tapping on a dinky screen. I wonder...
So, I decided to try and pair my bluetooth mouse with the Nexus 7. I didn't think it would let me do that, but what do you know, it worked. The Nexus 7 shows an actual mouse cursor when you move the mouse and you can even use the scroll wheel. A couple of things that are weird about using the mouse is that double clicking zooms in (it doesn't select the word you double-clicked on like you think it would) indicating that you still need to follow the "touch-y" gestures to get stuff done. Right clicking moves the caret to where you've clicked, and I can pull down the notification menu if I use the touch gesture (click & drag down, which feel really weird with a mouse) amongst other things.
I'm currently using the Nexus 7 on my coffee table (it pulls up to elbow height) with the keyboard and mouse. It sure is nice being able to use the mouse to click links! Why the hell didn't I try this earlier?!
Obviously it's not always possible to drag the mouse and keyboard around, but thanks goes to Google for even letting me be able to do it!
It may not be perfectly feasible right now to use a tablet with an IDE, but the input layer already supports a keyboard and mouse, maybe in a few years with an IDE specific to tablets it's doable. Then there's the issue of screen area (on smaller tablets like mine) but if we're going to add keyboard and mice why not plug into a high-def TV as well.
They can have subtitles as a bitmap overlay. However, the DVD player could be trying to OCR them or something to manipulate them before showing on the TV.
I believe it. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about 10 years ago. I got maybe 10-15 minutes of REM sleep a night (which isn't enough.)
Basically I was so sleep deprived that I was sleeping all the time. I was constantly sleeping in lectures and even sometimes through lab sessions.
Oddly enough I averaged a high B/low A score. My peers weren't too happy when they saw me sleeping all the time and getting scores they were struggling to get.
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I don't see why not. Facebook got overruled.
If someone bumped into me 185 times, I'd notice and do something about it.
Most of their customers will grumble about it, and guess what? They'll still buy the next iPhone. Apple's marketing really helps them here.
Karma? Who cares?
I speak my mind. Sometimes I'm modded up, sometimes I'm modded down (even a similar comment in different articles, one comment would be modded up and the other would be modded down - it's bizarre.) In fact, I didn't even know what "karma" was on /. for the longest time.
Overall my "karma" is OK right now, but I don't really pay attention to it.
Yep, an iPoop robot could sell well. Although I would think that it would still make a mess cleaning it up.
Damn. The thing that sucks about throwing that alarm... when it goes off again you have to get up to silence it. Maybe I should patent a throwable boomerang clock.
Posting to undo mod...
That "Baby on Board" sign is meant to let paramedics/first responders on scene of an accident know that you have an infant/toddler on board and to rescue them first. It's not and never was meant to be an indicator to other drivers. You're also not supposed to have it on the car when infants/toddlers are not in the vehicle - but almost nobody I've seen does that.
When the power goes out, all cards are in the air anyway. We had a UPS boo-boo and our enterprise drives (both SCSI & SAS) managed to corrupt data, even with a battery on the controller itself (battery was in good health.)
Shit happens. It's pretty damn difficult to account for power failures... even with battery backups on the local controllers you can only do so much.
They'll drive as fast as their cars will go! That'll save more than 8 minutes.
Yes, but how many nuggets will that be?
Jeez, why would you settle for a used Galaxy SII? Get a new Galaxy S3 at least!
It's not just Lenovo. I've seen Asus laptops that have this too, the first one I saw was about 3 years ago.
In my experience with Java apps, you don't need a large app to take a few GB of RAM. Small ones most defintely can! I was using a Java-powered DLNA server and was surprised to see it try to use over 2 GB of RAM!
On Ubuntu's download page it doesn't recommend using amd64, it recommends x86.
That's probably why Ubuntu shows less amd64 installs than x86. They could get with the times and recommend amd64 -- my 6 (or was it 7?) year old laptop even supports the amd64 instruction set.
What's wrong with option boxes?
As someone that uses both the shell and GUI config options, what's wrong with a choice? Sometimes configuring things through a GUI is faster. I'm all for that, especially if it can take less of my time.
For running scripted stuff, obviously the shell is better. Both are made for specific purposes.
Well, sure! The kids improve their ability to calculate angles and trajectories using Angry Birds!
Someone at work was asking me about laptops. She was in the Apple store looking at a new Air and the price tag (I believe it was $1200.) She currently has some run-of-the-mill Dell that's 5 years old.
She was asking if a disk drive was required, and I said to install most software you'd have to buy a USB DVD drive. No big deal. But she also owned Photoshop and whatever Adobe video processing software for Windows. I told her she'd either have to re-buy Windows or buy native Mac versions of her programs. I also said for that $1200 you can get a really well-equipped laptop (her current PC is a desktop) and you wouldn't have to re-buy everything. I told for for even $700 you could get a decent laptop that would run the programs.
Her conclusion? "Macs are too expensive. I like my iPhone, but not enough to buy a Mac computer."
This is someone who doesn't understand technology that much. If someone like that thinks it's too expensive, then it probably is...
300 GB? That's one hell of a download. I think downloading that once would put almost everyone over their monthly cap!
I would assume you can pair a keyboard with the iPad. I don't own one, so I can't verify it.
I do, however, have the Nexus 7. I've been using it with my rocketfish bluetooth keyboard for a couple of weeks now. Even the volume controls work on the keyboard. If you have to do some typing it's nice to have a full keyboard - you're right that the onscreen keyboard is... just not right. What's even more annoying is that when the screen or edit box etc loses focus and you have to correct it it's a real pain in the ass to be tapping on a dinky screen. I wonder...
So, I decided to try and pair my bluetooth mouse with the Nexus 7. I didn't think it would let me do that, but what do you know, it worked. The Nexus 7 shows an actual mouse cursor when you move the mouse and you can even use the scroll wheel. A couple of things that are weird about using the mouse is that double clicking zooms in (it doesn't select the word you double-clicked on like you think it would) indicating that you still need to follow the "touch-y" gestures to get stuff done. Right clicking moves the caret to where you've clicked, and I can pull down the notification menu if I use the touch gesture (click & drag down, which feel really weird with a mouse) amongst other things.
I'm currently using the Nexus 7 on my coffee table (it pulls up to elbow height) with the keyboard and mouse. It sure is nice being able to use the mouse to click links! Why the hell didn't I try this earlier?!
Obviously it's not always possible to drag the mouse and keyboard around, but thanks goes to Google for even letting me be able to do it!
It may not be perfectly feasible right now to use a tablet with an IDE, but the input layer already supports a keyboard and mouse, maybe in a few years with an IDE specific to tablets it's doable. Then there's the issue of screen area (on smaller tablets like mine) but if we're going to add keyboard and mice why not plug into a high-def TV as well.
They can have subtitles as a bitmap overlay. However, the DVD player could be trying to OCR them or something to manipulate them before showing on the TV.
You are thinking of trademarks. You have to defend them or you can lose them. IP? Not so much...
I believe it. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about 10 years ago. I got maybe 10-15 minutes of REM sleep a night (which isn't enough.)
Basically I was so sleep deprived that I was sleeping all the time. I was constantly sleeping in lectures and even sometimes through lab sessions.
Oddly enough I averaged a high B/low A score. My peers weren't too happy when they saw me sleeping all the time and getting scores they were struggling to get.
I wonder if it affects Java-powered devices like BD players? Hard to uninstall that. I guess if I see an update for mine I'll know what it's for.
Having thought about it for a bit, I'd like to live long enough to pay off debts so it won't be a burden to others when I kick the bucket.
However, at the rate I'm going, that'll take 150 years.