My Ipod Nano (whatever the latest generation is) will not charge with firewire. There are a lot of accessories that have not been updated still (the stereo system I bought my wife for Christmas for example).
The RAZR needs a driver, my SLVR does not. Both won't charge with a plain "dumb" USB charger but if a resistor (10k I think) is connected between ground and the pin next to it, it will charge (Found out by disassembling an aftermarket car charger). This should work for a computer USB port too but will bork the cable for real USB.
Yet it sounds remarkably like the buzz that those flies lying upside down on my windowsill make.
I agree with the previous poster. Palm threw it all away. The TX was a great device and the next logical step could have been revolutionary. Instead, Palm fell asleep at the wheel and concentrate on buggy smartphones instead. I loved the product but I can't say they don't deserve to die.
They're not even distributing it as text. They are distributing it as a modulated electronic signal which the kindle stores, interprets and displays as text.
What might work would be to have the app generate a GUID on login and when a bug is submitted, the app monitors the bug tracker and notifies the user when changes are made to the ticket or more info is required.
I understand why registration is used but on the flipside, I have decided against reporting bugs because of the registration process. The above idea would fix that.
The law here is that lights not working means the junction should be treated as an all-way stop. It's scary the number of people that don't know that (or choose to ignore it).
You need to get out more. It's 65-75 on the interstates most places (70 here) and 30 and up elsewhere with 45 and 55 being typical for mid-sized roads.
Agreed. Plus, when engine braking, you're not slipping the clutch anyway so no wear there. Essentially, when you're engine braking, the majority of energy use is going into compressing the air passing through the engine. That comes for free.
I was in the VW dealer the other month for a recall on the brke light switch. The light in my environmental controls was out and they asked if I wanted it fixed. I asked how much... $50!. I though it must be a "take the dash apart" type procedure but it was just pull the knob off, pull dead bulb, insert new $1 bulb, reapply knob. That's 2 or three tools worth of cash right there.
A bunch of the stuff they strip out from the home version should be left in. People take their home laptops to work occasionally. When things "don't work" then suddenly you have everyone running around like headless chickens. Should have planned ahead and bought pro/a system with pro? Maybe. But in the meantime, work isn't getting done. *Every* Windows system should be able to join to a domain. Just push the expense to the server licensing FFS.
But he enjoys it so his time is free. And personally, I've never regretted the purchase of a tool, they quickly pay for themselves. Even the special tools will typically come out cheaper than having the job done professionally once. Let's not forget that you'll often have to burn time letting the pros do it anyway (two hours waiting for an oil change once - only got it cause it was free. Would have cost me about 20 minutes net if I did it myself).
Now, I'll give you that if you do a simple cost/benefit analysis, you're probably better off getting a pro to do it. But, as ever, things are rarely that simple. I'd rather spend an hour under the hood than an extra hour at home.
By the way, ever broken down by the side of the road and been going again in 15 minutes because you know your vehicle and how to work on it? I have. Beats waiting for the tow.
Most of us don't care particularly about market share (other than bragging rights). Linux does what we want it to do for us and that's enough. If it doesn't quite, we can do some work and make it do so and maybe return a little to the community. The people who really do care about market share are likely the people who will ruin it.
Multiple distributions for the win. Heck, I am one person and I use three or four different distributions myself (Slackware, Debian, Knoppix, Knoppmyth uh, and whatever's on my Tivo). Five, five distributions. Oh, and the Kindle. That's six. Oh, and the one on the DS. Crap and the Wii one. I'll stop now.
I don't really understand the love for initrds and they've caused me a lot of trouble before. I know they allow you to modularize some stuff that you'd otherwise have to compile in but I don't really see much payoff.
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My Ipod Nano (whatever the latest generation is) will not charge with firewire. There are a lot of accessories that have not been updated still (the stereo system I bought my wife for Christmas for example).
The moto charger has a resistor between ground and one of the data pins (I think it's the one next to ground).
The RAZR needs a driver, my SLVR does not. Both won't charge with a plain "dumb" USB charger but if a resistor (10k I think) is connected between ground and the pin next to it, it will charge (Found out by disassembling an aftermarket car charger). This should work for a computer USB port too but will bork the cable for real USB.
Yet it sounds remarkably like the buzz that those flies lying upside down on my windowsill make.
I agree with the previous poster. Palm threw it all away. The TX was a great device and the next logical step could have been revolutionary. Instead, Palm fell asleep at the wheel and concentrate on buggy smartphones instead. I loved the product but I can't say they don't deserve to die.
They're not even distributing it as text. They are distributing it as a modulated electronic signal which the kindle stores, interprets and displays as text.
What might work would be to have the app generate a GUID on login and when a bug is submitted, the app monitors the bug tracker and notifies the user when changes are made to the ticket or more info is required.
I understand why registration is used but on the flipside, I have decided against reporting bugs because of the registration process. The above idea would fix that.
Oh, I don't think there's much risk of you or your kind ever "waking up"
Someone help me out, I can't see the Paypal link for that guy.
The law here is that lights not working means the junction should be treated as an all-way stop. It's scary the number of people that don't know that (or choose to ignore it).
You need to get out more. It's 65-75 on the interstates most places (70 here) and 30 and up elsewhere with 45 and 55 being typical for mid-sized roads.
Some decisions are not about who the finger could be pointed at.
Agreed. Plus, when engine braking, you're not slipping the clutch anyway so no wear there. Essentially, when you're engine braking, the majority of energy use is going into compressing the air passing through the engine. That comes for free.
Ah, takes me back to Friday nights at Uni...
Except they're too busy catching speeders to bother to enforce those rules. Cause speeders are easy.
At the start of my home commute, if you don't close the gap a bit, you'd end up going backwards.
Not should, could.
Yay Vag-com.
I was in the VW dealer the other month for a recall on the brke light switch. The light in my environmental controls was out and they asked if I wanted it fixed. I asked how much... $50!. I though it must be a "take the dash apart" type procedure but it was just pull the knob off, pull dead bulb, insert new $1 bulb, reapply knob. That's 2 or three tools worth of cash right there.
A bunch of the stuff they strip out from the home version should be left in. People take their home laptops to work occasionally. When things "don't work" then suddenly you have everyone running around like headless chickens. Should have planned ahead and bought pro/a system with pro? Maybe. But in the meantime, work isn't getting done. *Every* Windows system should be able to join to a domain. Just push the expense to the server licensing FFS.
There's not much point destroying the thing you hate if you become that thing in the process.
I'd rather spend an hour under the hood than an extra hour at work
But he enjoys it so his time is free. And personally, I've never regretted the purchase of a tool, they quickly pay for themselves. Even the special tools will typically come out cheaper than having the job done professionally once. Let's not forget that you'll often have to burn time letting the pros do it anyway (two hours waiting for an oil change once - only got it cause it was free. Would have cost me about 20 minutes net if I did it myself).
Now, I'll give you that if you do a simple cost/benefit analysis, you're probably better off getting a pro to do it. But, as ever, things are rarely that simple. I'd rather spend an hour under the hood than an extra hour at home.
By the way, ever broken down by the side of the road and been going again in 15 minutes because you know your vehicle and how to work on it? I have. Beats waiting for the tow.
if you want to build market share
Stop right there.
Most of us don't care particularly about market share (other than bragging rights). Linux does what we want it to do for us and that's enough. If it doesn't quite, we can do some work and make it do so and maybe return a little to the community. The people who really do care about market share are likely the people who will ruin it.
Multiple distributions for the win. Heck, I am one person and I use three or four different distributions myself (Slackware, Debian, Knoppix, Knoppmyth uh, and whatever's on my Tivo). Five, five distributions. Oh, and the Kindle. That's six. Oh, and the one on the DS. Crap and the Wii one. I'll stop now.
I don't really understand the love for initrds and they've caused me a lot of trouble before. I know they allow you to modularize some stuff that you'd otherwise have to compile in but I don't really see much payoff.
Is there something special we need to know about students in Canada?
That they're Canadian?
A: D. The guys with the guns.
This answer is also applicable in most situations
There are R/W tags out there. The one I was working with, I was able to make emulate another read-only tag that we used.