Do you really believe that the majority of handset makers will be getting 2.2 on their devices? Hell, I'll heave a big sigh of relief if I get it on my Milestone, and what about all those Motorola Motoblur, Samsung, LG and older HTC devices? I don't believe it, to be honest...
The best thing for all of us would be a Android terms-of-use clause of some sort: If you use Android on your product, you are required to keep it up to date (OTA updates to the latest Android versions at most 4 weeks after Google releases them) for at least... 5 years?
So all the apps with "Doesn't work on $AndroidPhone" in the comments or even in the description are just what, figments of everyone else's imagination?
You're absolutely right. I bought my Milestone thinking it would be getting OTA updates just as fast as Google could release them (since it's got no customization like HTC's Sense or anything else like that)... boy was I surprised.
That said, so far we've gotten decent support from Motorola - upgrades to 2.0.1 and 2.1 - unfortunately, you're pretty much left to the whims of your device's distributor and manufacturer...
LOL, are you fucking serious? It prompts you when you delete a desktop shortcut (never mind that it's on the All Users desktop - it's still a freakin desktop shortcut)?
I'm tempted to turn UAC back on for a little bit, just to try it out. Pretty much for the same reasons that people watch horror movies, I'm guessing...
With Adblock + Flashblock installed and only one tab (Gmail) open, Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox.
Also, Flashblock and Adblock don't work properly in incognito mode, and the Javascript whitelisting is a) a pain in the ass (two clicks + manual refresh every time you add a permission), and b) nowhere near as in-depth as NoScript (no temporary whitelisting of single elements, no explicit whitelisting of the individual domains trying to insert Javascript on the page, no temporary whitelisting in general... it's just a very all-or-nothing solution).
I have a feeling I'll be sticking with Firefox, even if it uses 800MB of RAM when I've got a few windows and tabs open...
Chrome has all the functionality of NoScript and ABP built in with a significantly lower memory footprint? Where do I find this fabled functionality (seriously, I want to know! I'll fire up Chrome right away to try it out)?
Try a few different brightness widgets - they often have varying minimum brightness levels - "Brightness" is the lowest I've found so far, with other widgets and the internal Android brightness setting coming in at 3% brightness on this widget's scale. Low enough for eBooks in absolute darkness... and far less eyestrain than a reading lamp and a paperback.
When I'm browsing my news feeds or forums, I usually open everything I'm planning on reading, and THEN start reading. If I haven't checked my feeds for a while, that's 400-500 articles, 50 of which I'd like to read on average.
This is on my own time of course - not at work or on my lunch break...
Why are Intel graphics shit? They run cool, use very little power and have sufficient grunt for anything a typical non-gamer (maybe CAD and GPU-accelerated Photoshop aside) will throw at them...
Not being able to run games does not make an integrated GPU shit...
One of the main reasons to use Firefox is: Addons!
There's only about 5 or 10 that I absolutely need to have installed, but even with those, the memory usage is so high that I frequently get out-of-memory errors with 2GB of RAM... highest I've seen was almost 800MB, and there were less than 50 tabs open...
Sounds like you're pressing too hard. Crank up the sensitivity all the way and you shouldn't have that problem, because you won't be applying enough physical force to cause that much wear and tear.
Obviously it'll die sooner or later, but luckily with Thinkpads, you have the option of just popping in a replacement keyboard with a new trackpoint built right in;)
The biggest advantage (IMO) of a trackpoint is that you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to use it... where would you put a trackpoint on the keyboard? Putting one on there that's as small as the trackpoint probably wouldn't work very well.
Same here... I find that soaking them in a solution of lukewarm water with dishwashing liquid over night works relatively well for getting the gunk out, though. It's either that or putting on a new one every month (gets pretty annoying when you've got more than one or two Thinkpads)...
I have the full-sized lenovo UltraNav (with the numeric pad and touchpad) hooked up to my Linux workstation at work. Works great; although I haven't bothered to setup the scroll function for the third button - it is worth more to me as a "paste" function in X.
Interesting - the awesome scroll function is half the reason I use Thinkpads... Is it possible you've only used "Smooth scrolling" mode (where the middle button just acts as a middle mouse button and only works for scrolling in programs like Firefox)? That pissed me off to no end until I discovered that in Standard mode, you can regulate the scrolling speed much more accurately, the mouse pointer doesn't move about as you're scrolling, and scrolling horizontally works perfectly as soon as you add the appropriate rules to your tp4table.dat file...
As for using the middle button to paste - why? I've always wondered this... why not just use CTRL+V?
Anyone else see this purchase and cancelation of Slate as a huge setback for Microsoft? It's basically a public admission by HP that Windows can't cut as a tablet OS.
Windows may not be able to cut it as a consumer tablet OS, but it does just fine on actual Tablet PCs, thank you very much.
So you set up a $1000 quad- or hexacore rig (or find a CUDA encoder that'll actually let you choose which audio track you want used [I'm looking at you Badaboom!]) just so that you can transcode videos for your PMP?
I'm actually in the same predicament - can't find a single decent video player that'll do Xvid playback (let alone high-res H264 MKVs) properly (no stuttering, no downsampling to what looks like 160x120, no draining the battery within 3 hours) on Android... Doesn't bother me _that_ much, since I don't really feel like watching movies on such a small screen anyway, but on an iPad, which is practically made for watching video, that would bug me like hell...
RDP is an order of magnitude faster, and over a decent connection (connecting from tethered 3G to my home DSL is fine).
However, that doesn't change the fact that trying to control apps that you usually run on dual WUXGA monitors via a 10" XGA tablet with a capacitive touchscreen is going to be an exercise in futility. Adding a new download to your Bittorrent queue shouldn't be a problem, but anything productive...? Meh...
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Do you really believe that the majority of handset makers will be getting 2.2 on their devices? Hell, I'll heave a big sigh of relief if I get it on my Milestone, and what about all those Motorola Motoblur, Samsung, LG and older HTC devices? I don't believe it, to be honest...
The best thing for all of us would be a Android terms-of-use clause of some sort: If you use Android on your product, you are required to keep it up to date (OTA updates to the latest Android versions at most 4 weeks after Google releases them) for at least... 5 years?
So all the apps with "Doesn't work on $AndroidPhone" in the comments or even in the description are just what, figments of everyone else's imagination?
You're absolutely right. I bought my Milestone thinking it would be getting OTA updates just as fast as Google could release them (since it's got no customization like HTC's Sense or anything else like that)... boy was I surprised.
That said, so far we've gotten decent support from Motorola - upgrades to 2.0.1 and 2.1 - unfortunately, you're pretty much left to the whims of your device's distributor and manufacturer...
Same here - works pretty well, but I'd like to not have to mark articles as read manually...
LOL, are you fucking serious? It prompts you when you delete a desktop shortcut (never mind that it's on the All Users desktop - it's still a freakin desktop shortcut)?
I'm tempted to turn UAC back on for a little bit, just to try it out. Pretty much for the same reasons that people watch horror movies, I'm guessing...
Hmmm, isn't looking all too good so far:
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With Adblock + Flashblock installed and only one tab (Gmail) open, Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox.
Also, Flashblock and Adblock don't work properly in incognito mode, and the Javascript whitelisting is a) a pain in the ass (two clicks + manual refresh every time you add a permission), and b) nowhere near as in-depth as NoScript (no temporary whitelisting of single elements, no explicit whitelisting of the individual domains trying to insert Javascript on the page, no temporary whitelisting in general... it's just a very all-or-nothing solution).
I have a feeling I'll be sticking with Firefox, even if it uses 800MB of RAM when I've got a few windows and tabs open...
Thanks, reading up on that now!
Same here... works great, and the perfectly antialiased fonts are extremely easy on the eyes.
Chrome has all the functionality of NoScript and ABP built in with a significantly lower memory footprint? Where do I find this fabled functionality (seriously, I want to know! I'll fire up Chrome right away to try it out)?
So what happens when you're on the phone and need to look up something on the MacBook? :P
Try a few different brightness widgets - they often have varying minimum brightness levels - "Brightness" is the lowest I've found so far, with other widgets and the internal Android brightness setting coming in at 3% brightness on this widget's scale. Low enough for eBooks in absolute darkness... and far less eyestrain than a reading lamp and a paperback.
So it'd be far more effective for one to make the screen dimmer as it got later in to the day.
Doesn't everyone already do that anyway? At night I rarely have my LCD turned up any higher than a notch over minimum...
When I'm browsing my news feeds or forums, I usually open everything I'm planning on reading, and THEN start reading. If I haven't checked my feeds for a while, that's 400-500 articles, 50 of which I'd like to read on average.
This is on my own time of course - not at work or on my lunch break...
Disturbing, isn't it?
Sent from an ACTUAL tablet (Wacom digitizer and all)...
Why are Intel graphics shit? They run cool, use very little power and have sufficient grunt for anything a typical non-gamer (maybe CAD and GPU-accelerated Photoshop aside) will throw at them...
Not being able to run games does not make an integrated GPU shit...
One of the main reasons to use Firefox is: Addons!
There's only about 5 or 10 that I absolutely need to have installed, but even with those, the memory usage is so high that I frequently get out-of-memory errors with 2GB of RAM... highest I've seen was almost 800MB, and there were less than 50 tabs open...
Sounds like you're pressing too hard. Crank up the sensitivity all the way and you shouldn't have that problem, because you won't be applying enough physical force to cause that much wear and tear.
Obviously it'll die sooner or later, but luckily with Thinkpads, you have the option of just popping in a replacement keyboard with a new trackpoint built right in ;)
HP has 'em, Dell has 'em... albeit not on their consumer lines, but who on Slashdot buys consumer-type laptops these days...?
The biggest advantage (IMO) of a trackpoint is that you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to use it... where would you put a trackpoint on the keyboard? Putting one on there that's as small as the trackpoint probably wouldn't work very well.
Same here... I find that soaking them in a solution of lukewarm water with dishwashing liquid over night works relatively well for getting the gunk out, though. It's either that or putting on a new one every month (gets pretty annoying when you've got more than one or two Thinkpads)...
Start playing guitar without a pick and your troubles will be over ;)
Either that or use the trackpoint so much that your fingertip toughens up enough :)
I have the full-sized lenovo UltraNav (with the numeric pad and touchpad) hooked up to my Linux workstation at work. Works great; although I haven't bothered to setup the scroll function for the third button - it is worth more to me as a "paste" function in X.
Interesting - the awesome scroll function is half the reason I use Thinkpads... Is it possible you've only used "Smooth scrolling" mode (where the middle button just acts as a middle mouse button and only works for scrolling in programs like Firefox)? That pissed me off to no end until I discovered that in Standard mode, you can regulate the scrolling speed much more accurately, the mouse pointer doesn't move about as you're scrolling, and scrolling horizontally works perfectly as soon as you add the appropriate rules to your tp4table.dat file...
As for using the middle button to paste - why? I've always wondered this... why not just use CTRL+V?
Anyone else see this purchase and cancelation of Slate as a huge setback for Microsoft? It's basically a public admission by HP that Windows can't cut as a tablet OS.
Windows may not be able to cut it as a consumer tablet OS, but it does just fine on actual Tablet PCs, thank you very much.
*Scribbles on Thinkpad tablet and giggles* :D
So you set up a $1000 quad- or hexacore rig (or find a CUDA encoder that'll actually let you choose which audio track you want used [I'm looking at you Badaboom!]) just so that you can transcode videos for your PMP?
I'm actually in the same predicament - can't find a single decent video player that'll do Xvid playback (let alone high-res H264 MKVs) properly (no stuttering, no downsampling to what looks like 160x120, no draining the battery within 3 hours) on Android... Doesn't bother me _that_ much, since I don't really feel like watching movies on such a small screen anyway, but on an iPad, which is practically made for watching video, that would bug me like hell...
RDP is an order of magnitude faster, and over a decent connection (connecting from tethered 3G to my home DSL is fine).
However, that doesn't change the fact that trying to control apps that you usually run on dual WUXGA monitors via a 10" XGA tablet with a capacitive touchscreen is going to be an exercise in futility. Adding a new download to your Bittorrent queue shouldn't be a problem, but anything productive...? Meh...