That is your problem right there. Kubuntu is a terrible KDE distribution, possibly the worst out there. You'd get better performance, memory usage, features and stability from any other KDE distro.
He didn't ban the Galaxy S3. Nor the iPhone 4S. Nor the new iPad. Nor the latest Samsung tablets. It's a "win" for Samsung because they'll earn a slightly bigger reward, but that's it.
They had the dominant smartphone OS AND the dominant dumbphone OS. They had an experimental high end, Linux-based OS that was almost ready to retake the top spot in mindshare. They had the best development tools, which would allow one to target those 3 OSs simultaneously. And they were developing this new Linux-based dumbphone OS that would be created around those tools.
Actually, if this graph is to be trusted, it's very far from an exponential growth. You can see two breaks: one at about -5000, where the population started growing; and one at about 1700, where the growth rate increased dramatically. Also a hint for another, more recent break (~1950?), where the growth rate increased again. (Note for the mathematically impaired: an exponential growth means a straight line in a log graphic. You can divide this graphic in 3-4 different straight lines, so you have 3-4 different growth rates at different points in time)
Updating a Galaxy is impossible (bar rooting) without OTA updates which are Carrier Specific. Should your carrier not be bothered with a phone/tablet that they offered 9 months ago you will never get updates regardless of whether every other carrier in the world has an update.
Actually, it's NOT impossible. Search for "Odin", and get the firmware files in.tar format from sources like SamMobile. You don't have to root at all to upgrade to the latest versions, even if they aren't offered for you as OTA, or through Kies.
Asking for a 2.3'' touchscreen is nuts. I'm asking for a 4-4.3'' high end phone. Even a Galaxy SII (arguably the best of last year's dual cores) isn't 100% lag-free, the browser could be faster, the resolution isn't impressive anymore (they could use a DPI similar to the Galaxy Nexus, or even bigger, and have a qHD/720p screen on 4.3 inches). I want the phone to fit well in my pockets; when I use it, I can handle the "small" (which was considered "huge" only 2 years ago) screen. It's not like I can't see individual pixels on the current screen.
I'd rather have the same screen resolution with a high DPI in a reasonable (4-4.5'') screen size than with a low DPI in a huge (5-6'') screen.
The point is: if you want a high end smartphone AND you don't want a 4.5+ inch screen, what are your options? What quad-core Android comes in such form factor?
Floppies?! The first digital camera I had (a Kodak DC20) had a megabyte of fixed storage, and that was it! We could fit 8 493x373 pics, or 16 320x240 ones! No fancy flash or LCD, either! The only way to get the pictures out of it was through a slow, serial cable at ~50 kbps! At the time, we WISHED we could use big, fast, portable floppies! Now, kids, get off my lawn!!
They are reviewing their own paper to make their methods clear. FTFA:
"Dario Autiero of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Lyons (IPNL), France, and physics coordinator for OPERA, counters that Contaldi's challenge is a result of a misunderstanding of how the clocks were synchronized. He says the group will be revising its paper to try to make its method clearer."
Meaning: Contaldi didn't understand how OPERA did it, and thought they had commited a somewhat stupid mistake. OPERA says they didn't make that error, and that they'll rewrite that part of the paper to make this clear. In other words, this is not news at all.
No. As others said, the Tevatron is just the last stage of a chain of accelerators, one that was used (nowadays) just to collide high energy protons and antiprotons and "see what's inside". The neutrinos come from the previous stage (called "Main Injector"): they used to take a few protons off the beam, collide them into a target in a very well defined direction, focus the muons that come from this, get neutrinos from the muon decay and measure them near the detector and in Minnesota, to get an idea of their oscillation (and now, also of their speed). The experiment that does this is called MINOS, and it doesn't depend on the Tevatron at all. Actually, shutting down the Tevatron will help MINOS: they will get more protons, therefore more neutrinos and more data.
By the way, this is exacly the same general arrangement used by the OPERA experiment (the one with FTL neutrinos), where the neutrinos are produced in CERN and measured there and in Gran Sasso.
Unity is a shell built on top of Gnome 3, so it's impossible for Ubuntu to "drop Gnome" and keep Unity. Their plan is to remove the Gnome-classic shell and replace it with Unity-2D, as you can see on the roadmap; and looks like the plan is still going on.
Just to give some scale to the show's ignorance, a Level 6 Nuclear Accident is something like the Kyshtym disaster, where 80 tons of highly radioactive material were released into the atmosphere. Level 5 Accidents include Three Mile Island and Goiânia, where 250 people were heavily contaminated and 5 died from the direct consequences of Cesium-137 exposure (without counting cancer victims, miscarriages and children born with severe problems). Most Level 4 Accidents actually caused at least some deaths, so the classification of Fukushima at Level 4, despite official, may be a bit premature.
As far as I can tell, TFAs are about the SECOND blast, which happened on reactor 3 of the plant. NHK has nothing about a third blast. Am I missing something? Was there a third explosion, on reactor 2?
They're very moody, but they surely add a lot of flavour to our jobs. Nowadays they're very concerned about their weight, even though they are so thin; and it looks like they get even moodier because the weight of each one of them is slightly different. On the positive side, they're quite fast in everything they do.
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A first post by an AC that's actually useful. That's a FIRST.
From the same time frame, the encore (B&N Nook Color) is 100% supported on CM10.2 (or Android JellyBean 4.3):
http://get.cm/?device=encore
I installed Kubuntu
That is your problem right there. Kubuntu is a terrible KDE distribution, possibly the worst out there. You'd get better performance, memory usage, features and stability from any other KDE distro.
He didn't ban the Galaxy S3. Nor the iPhone 4S. Nor the new iPad. Nor the latest Samsung tablets. It's a "win" for Samsung because they'll earn a slightly bigger reward, but that's it.
They had the dominant smartphone OS AND the dominant dumbphone OS. They had an experimental high end, Linux-based OS that was almost ready to retake the top spot in mindshare. They had the best development tools, which would allow one to target those 3 OSs simultaneously. And they were developing this new Linux-based dumbphone OS that would be created around those tools.
Now they have Windows Phone.
Actually, if this graph is to be trusted, it's very far from an exponential growth. You can see two breaks: one at about -5000, where the population started growing; and one at about 1700, where the growth rate increased dramatically. Also a hint for another, more recent break (~1950?), where the growth rate increased again. (Note for the mathematically impaired: an exponential growth means a straight line in a log graphic. You can divide this graphic in 3-4 different straight lines, so you have 3-4 different growth rates at different points in time)
Updating a Galaxy is impossible (bar rooting) without OTA updates which are Carrier Specific. Should your carrier not be bothered with a phone/tablet that they offered 9 months ago you will never get updates regardless of whether every other carrier in the world has an update.
Actually, it's NOT impossible. Search for "Odin", and get the firmware files in .tar format from sources like SamMobile. You don't have to root at all to upgrade to the latest versions, even if they aren't offered for you as OTA, or through Kies.
Asking for a 2.3'' touchscreen is nuts. I'm asking for a 4-4.3'' high end phone. Even a Galaxy SII (arguably the best of last year's dual cores) isn't 100% lag-free, the browser could be faster, the resolution isn't impressive anymore (they could use a DPI similar to the Galaxy Nexus, or even bigger, and have a qHD/720p screen on 4.3 inches). I want the phone to fit well in my pockets; when I use it, I can handle the "small" (which was considered "huge" only 2 years ago) screen. It's not like I can't see individual pixels on the current screen.
I'd rather have the same screen resolution with a high DPI in a reasonable (4-4.5'') screen size than with a low DPI in a huge (5-6'') screen.
Yes, I know... Now, read it again.
Murphy's Law applies to the other post above:
No, for "prefect". Which is a word, but not the same as "prefect", which is what OP probably meant to type.
The point is: if you want a high end smartphone AND you don't want a 4.5+ inch screen, what are your options? What quad-core Android comes in such form factor?
s/saving/killing/
Floppies?! The first digital camera I had (a Kodak DC20) had a megabyte of fixed storage, and that was it! We could fit 8 493x373 pics, or 16 320x240 ones! No fancy flash or LCD, either! The only way to get the pictures out of it was through a slow, serial cable at ~50 kbps! At the time, we WISHED we could use big, fast, portable floppies!
Now, kids, get off my lawn!!
That's exactly why I started with "Elop says".
Use the full equation:
E = (mc) + (pc).
If p=0 (p is the momentum; so if you're at rest, p=0), E=mc.
If m=0 (the case for photons, for example), E=pc.
If neither p nor m are zero, E = sqrt(E0^2 + (pc)^2), where E0=mc^2 is the rest energy.
They are reviewing their own paper to make their methods clear. FTFA:
"Dario Autiero of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Lyons (IPNL), France, and physics coordinator for OPERA, counters that Contaldi's challenge is a result of a misunderstanding of how the clocks were synchronized. He says the group will be revising its paper to try to make its method clearer."
Meaning: Contaldi didn't understand how OPERA did it, and thought they had commited a somewhat stupid mistake. OPERA says they didn't make that error, and that they'll rewrite that part of the paper to make this clear. In other words, this is not news at all.
No. As others said, the Tevatron is just the last stage of a chain of accelerators, one that was used (nowadays) just to collide high energy protons and antiprotons and "see what's inside". The neutrinos come from the previous stage (called "Main Injector"): they used to take a few protons off the beam, collide them into a target in a very well defined direction, focus the muons that come from this, get neutrinos from the muon decay and measure them near the detector and in Minnesota, to get an idea of their oscillation (and now, also of their speed). The experiment that does this is called MINOS, and it doesn't depend on the Tevatron at all. Actually, shutting down the Tevatron will help MINOS: they will get more protons, therefore more neutrinos and more data.
By the way, this is exacly the same general arrangement used by the OPERA experiment (the one with FTL neutrinos), where the neutrinos are produced in CERN and measured there and in Gran Sasso.
Unity is a shell built on top of Gnome 3, so it's impossible for Ubuntu to "drop Gnome" and keep Unity. Their plan is to remove the Gnome-classic shell and replace it with Unity-2D, as you can see on the roadmap; and looks like the plan is still going on.
Just to give some scale to the show's ignorance, a Level 6 Nuclear Accident is something like the Kyshtym disaster, where 80 tons of highly radioactive material were released into the atmosphere. Level 5 Accidents include Three Mile Island and Goiânia, where 250 people were heavily contaminated and 5 died from the direct consequences of Cesium-137 exposure (without counting cancer victims, miscarriages and children born with severe problems). Most Level 4 Accidents actually caused at least some deaths, so the classification of Fukushima at Level 4, despite official, may be a bit premature.
As far as I can tell, TFAs are about the SECOND blast, which happened on reactor 3 of the plant. NHK has nothing about a third blast. Am I missing something? Was there a third explosion, on reactor 2?
s/Corel/Coral/, obviously.
I believe you're supposed to abuse the HTTP error code somehow to get the content.
Corel Cache also works.
Funny, I got an AC who doesn't know where his towel is.
And the Amiga 4000 is over 10 times more powerful than the Xbox 360.
They're very moody, but they surely add a lot of flavour to our jobs. Nowadays they're very concerned about their weight, even though they are so thin; and it looks like they get even moodier because the weight of each one of them is slightly different. On the positive side, they're quite fast in everything they do.