I expect the Kindle device would be higher specced to be able to push out streaming video and games. I think Amazon will suffer heavily from rooted tablets, especially if the default experience is perceived as constrained or broken.
E-ink color is wretched technology. It's a conventional e-ink display stuck behind a transparent layer which "tints" the pixels with different colours. If you want to get an idea of the effect, print out a gray scale picture on some cardboard and colour it in with felt tip pens. If there is a future in e-ink displays it is likely to be Mirasol which offers vivid colours, high screen refreshes and optional backlighting.
... why the Android 3.x source didn't get released. Google didn't want want Amazon lifting it, forcing them to either fork or come back to the negotiating table. The publically cited excuse that the 3.x codebase broke stuff and the code needed to be fixed probably had some truth but IMO this was the real reason.
$250 is still too much for a 7" tablet, especially one which should be subsidized by a service but I expect they'll sell a lot anyway. What I want to know is how long it will take before someone mods them to run vanilla Android.
I don't know why you think the comparison to parachutes is not valid. It is. Vaccines are a convenient, safe, highly effective way to safeguard against a serious threat to life. Are they 100% safe. No. Do their benefits massively outweigh their sideeffects. Absolutely.
As for flu vaccination, it costs less than 1/10th of what I earn daily. If I was off sick for 3 days I'm losing 30x the cost of vaccination. Even if it worked only once in 30 years it would pay for itself financially. And the reality is it protects more than that by a long shot. I think in the last 20 years I've had flu about 15 times. The years where I don't vaccinate have been the years I got it. It's not a "small number" of people who get the flu, mores the pity. Even putting money aside, getting flu is such a fucking awful experience that I don't see why I should risk it or wish passing it onto my kids or anyone else.
Some cops say some pretty tasteless and racist crap in private communications. Is anyone surprised? At the end of the day, any disclosures will be mildly embarrassing, largely ignored or might result in a slap on the wrist.
Does anything think it will do a damned thing to stop arrests of anonymous members?
I'm not sure why. IDL actually makes your job as a developer easier. If you have used Lua or any other embedded language you'll see there is no free lunch for this stuff. You have to code up stubs and boiler plate and marshal values around between C and script native types. At least with IDL you just restrict yourself to describing the interface and the implementation and leave it to the compiler to spew out the boiler plate stubs and proxies.
The FDA takes all reasonable measures to ensure food & drug safety but there is no way to prove anything is 100% safe. You could line up 2 million volunteers to sample the food and all show no ill effects. The 2 million and one person to sample it might drop dead of some hitherto undiscovered allergy.
The anti-vaccination movement often scream that vaccines be proven 100% safe for that reason. It's an unreasonable demand and one which can never be met, at least as far as food and drugs go.
For kernel.org, I think it would be a different matter. They have a discrete number of files, a large number of mirrors, many of which are historical. It should be feasible to compare files and checksums against each other and look for discrepancies. Same for git clones.
git and the fact that there are distributed copies makes it hard if not impossible to interfere with the source without somebody noticing. But it does nothing for the various tarballs, patches etc sitting there. I assume they could be regenerated, that there are md5sum files and enough copies floating around on mirrors that if there is any tampering it could be detected and restored.
No, something with an IDL compiler that generates a typelibrary, proxy & stub code and some kind of lookup service / transport running over something such as D-Bus. This sort of thing has been done lots of times before.
Proposing a Lisp dialect as the "official" extension language of GNU is a stillborn idea. It might find favour with the small fanbase of Lisp hackers but nobody else. It would make more sense to define a language neutral automation interface that any process can implement. Scripting languages would soon acquire the bindings to use it.
Even if you had a compost heap, there is absolutely no chance at all it could supply your fuel needs. I expect it's more likely this sort of thing would have application at the municipal level. You leave your organic leftovers outside, they're collected and then the energy is converted to fuel along with park clippings, wood chips, waste wood, newspapers and everything else which might otherwise go in a dump or incinerator. Obviously the challenge is to make the system recoup more fuel than it expends in running.
If those vaccinated are still at risk -- that's one less reason to bother getting a vax, as far as many are concerned. It's taking a perceived risk in exchange for a non-guara
No vaccination is 100% effective. As I'm sure no parachute is. Or other life saving device. It doesn't mean you don't take it when offered the chance.
PermGen space gets exhausted typically when you load a lot of classes in. Upon first reference the class info and all the final static vars get instantiated and are stuck into the permanant generation bucket of the GC which means they're not garbage collected until the app terminates. Load too many classes and the space is exhausted and bang goes the JVM. IMO the default behaviour of the JVM at least on desktops should be to roll with the application's needs and allocate more memory if more memory is needed.
As for Skynet, it would probably utilise the new invoke dynamic in Java 7 to sidestep the issue. As a consequence it's human processing facilities would be running on Jython, Groovy or JRuby.
EBay is full of fake cards too. I got stung for one a few years back - claimed it was 4GB but only the first 256MB worked. Packaging and card looked authentic including hologram but even so it was bogus as a test revealed. I initiated a fraud complaint and got my money back. The scam works (judging by all the A+++ comments) because very few other people bother to actually test the card so the fraudster gets away with it for a few months before being shut down. I assume they set up again with a new name and rinse & repeat.
It's amusing to hear them talk to each other but they last about 2 sentences before losing the plot and reverting to generic question / answer. I don't think you'd fool anyone running this software in a Turing test.
I think Wikileaks would be out to screw China too if they laid their hands on as many classified documents. Of course China would probably take the Russian approach to such disclosures and murder some people to make a point.
The thing with menus is you can whirl from one end to the other while holding the mouse down. Everything is arranged in a hierarchical fashion so the behaviour is predictable.
On ribbons the behaviour is not predictable. The File tab hides the document you were looking at completely. The other menus employ a variety of layouts which don't even align properly with each other meaning a game of hunt the button. So instead of a mouse down, mouse down, mouse release, you have "think of task"", mouse move, click, "hunt the button", mouse move, click often followed by the reverse to get back to the tab you were on.
It's this mind gap that I don't like. I recognize the ribbon does present you with actions in a more ordered way and is more task centric but this doesn't mean the result is flawless. Perhaps novices appreciate it more than I do. The ribbon has certainly come in for some heat and I suspect it's because of the effect I describe even if people can't put their finger on it. I think the ribbon could be improved if advanced users could hold down the mouse, and drag across the tabs like navigating menus, drag down to the action and release the button. The file tab needs to be completely rethought.
Slighty OT, but I experience the same problem using GNOME 3. Apps live on one screen, activities / task bar lives on another. Flipping from one to the other knocks my train of thought for six in the same way as the File tab in MS Office.
I knew this would happen so it's a shame I couldn't snag a Touchpad for want of trying. I expect CM will get very popular especially when Android 4.x rolls around.
But I just can't. I realise it's all logically ordered, with task centric tabs and all the actions right there to hand. But my day is filled will little brain farts because the buttons I want to access are not visible until I figure out the "task" they belong to. So I have to click on the tab and then the button (hopefull) appears and I click somewhere else. And invariably I have to flip to another tab straight after and I end up moving the mouse around and clicking a lot more than I would if there was a context sensitive toolbar.
It just seems so much slower than toolbars. Not to say toolbars don't have their own issues but ribbons can be downright annoying.
My recollection of Mandrake (before it became Mandriva) is it started off stable and got increasingly flakier with each successive release. Part of that was the ridiculously short periods between releases. It went from version 8.1 to 9 in two months including beta releases. I don't if they did this to drive new purchases or what but I basically gave up on the dist about then since it was obvious that other dists were paying far better attention to usability and quality.
Ubuntu fits on a CD and has made some relatively controversial cuts from its supported software lineup to keep the space down. I think you could level lots of criticism at Ubuntu (especially recently) but shoving junk on you is not one of them.
Ubuntu is a prettified version of Debian, so I don't even think that claim would hold water. Mandrake started off as a fork from Red Hat 5 or so. I still enjoy reading my early raves about Mandrake turning to annoyance and then rants as each passing release seemed to get progressively buggier.
If only. Try firing up Firefox with 10-12 tabs and see it slowly, but steadly, eating you memory up. A browser is one of the many apps i run on my systems, so good peformance and memory handling has a definite impact on my user experience.
Fire up 10-12 tabs and chances are you have multiple instances of Flash bogging down your computer. If not flash then you still have 10-12 DOMs, 10-12 JS sessions with random timer events, image animations and so forth going on in the background. I think Firefox should probably ship with something analogous to a Task Manager where you could see how much CPU each tab "consumed".
I don't even blame Flash for the problems of CPU consumption. Flash gets a lot of hate but its really a victim of its own success. Any piece of code which had so many instances running would hog CPU.
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I expect the Kindle device would be higher specced to be able to push out streaming video and games. I think Amazon will suffer heavily from rooted tablets, especially if the default experience is perceived as constrained or broken.
E-ink color is wretched technology. It's a conventional e-ink display stuck behind a transparent layer which "tints" the pixels with different colours. If you want to get an idea of the effect, print out a gray scale picture on some cardboard and colour it in with felt tip pens. If there is a future in e-ink displays it is likely to be Mirasol which offers vivid colours, high screen refreshes and optional backlighting.
... why the Android 3.x source didn't get released. Google didn't want want Amazon lifting it, forcing them to either fork or come back to the negotiating table. The publically cited excuse that the 3.x codebase broke stuff and the code needed to be fixed probably had some truth but IMO this was the real reason.
$250 is still too much for a 7" tablet, especially one which should be subsidized by a service but I expect they'll sell a lot anyway. What I want to know is how long it will take before someone mods them to run vanilla Android.
As for flu vaccination, it costs less than 1/10th of what I earn daily. If I was off sick for 3 days I'm losing 30x the cost of vaccination. Even if it worked only once in 30 years it would pay for itself financially. And the reality is it protects more than that by a long shot. I think in the last 20 years I've had flu about 15 times. The years where I don't vaccinate have been the years I got it. It's not a "small number" of people who get the flu, mores the pity. Even putting money aside, getting flu is such a fucking awful experience that I don't see why I should risk it or wish passing it onto my kids or anyone else.
Does anything think it will do a damned thing to stop arrests of anonymous members?
I'm not sure why. IDL actually makes your job as a developer easier. If you have used Lua or any other embedded language you'll see there is no free lunch for this stuff. You have to code up stubs and boiler plate and marshal values around between C and script native types. At least with IDL you just restrict yourself to describing the interface and the implementation and leave it to the compiler to spew out the boiler plate stubs and proxies.
The anti-vaccination movement often scream that vaccines be proven 100% safe for that reason. It's an unreasonable demand and one which can never be met, at least as far as food and drugs go.
For kernel.org, I think it would be a different matter. They have a discrete number of files, a large number of mirrors, many of which are historical. It should be feasible to compare files and checksums against each other and look for discrepancies. Same for git clones.
You can't guarantee it's 100% safe to eat even if you grow it yourself.
git and the fact that there are distributed copies makes it hard if not impossible to interfere with the source without somebody noticing. But it does nothing for the various tarballs, patches etc sitting there. I assume they could be regenerated, that there are md5sum files and enough copies floating around on mirrors that if there is any tampering it could be detected and restored.
No, something with an IDL compiler that generates a typelibrary, proxy & stub code and some kind of lookup service / transport running over something such as D-Bus. This sort of thing has been done lots of times before.
Proposing a Lisp dialect as the "official" extension language of GNU is a stillborn idea. It might find favour with the small fanbase of Lisp hackers but nobody else. It would make more sense to define a language neutral automation interface that any process can implement. Scripting languages would soon acquire the bindings to use it.
Even if you had a compost heap, there is absolutely no chance at all it could supply your fuel needs. I expect it's more likely this sort of thing would have application at the municipal level. You leave your organic leftovers outside, they're collected and then the energy is converted to fuel along with park clippings, wood chips, waste wood, newspapers and everything else which might otherwise go in a dump or incinerator. Obviously the challenge is to make the system recoup more fuel than it expends in running.
If those vaccinated are still at risk -- that's one less reason to bother getting a vax, as far as many are concerned. It's taking a perceived risk in exchange for a non-guara
No vaccination is 100% effective. As I'm sure no parachute is. Or other life saving device. It doesn't mean you don't take it when offered the chance.
As for Skynet, it would probably utilise the new invoke dynamic in Java 7 to sidestep the issue. As a consequence it's human processing facilities would be running on Jython, Groovy or JRuby.
EBay is full of fake cards too. I got stung for one a few years back - claimed it was 4GB but only the first 256MB worked. Packaging and card looked authentic including hologram but even so it was bogus as a test revealed. I initiated a fraud complaint and got my money back. The scam works (judging by all the A+++ comments) because very few other people bother to actually test the card so the fraudster gets away with it for a few months before being shut down. I assume they set up again with a new name and rinse & repeat.
It's amusing to hear them talk to each other but they last about 2 sentences before losing the plot and reverting to generic question / answer. I don't think you'd fool anyone running this software in a Turing test.
I think Wikileaks would be out to screw China too if they laid their hands on as many classified documents. Of course China would probably take the Russian approach to such disclosures and murder some people to make a point.
On ribbons the behaviour is not predictable. The File tab hides the document you were looking at completely. The other menus employ a variety of layouts which don't even align properly with each other meaning a game of hunt the button. So instead of a mouse down, mouse down, mouse release, you have "think of task"", mouse move, click, "hunt the button", mouse move, click often followed by the reverse to get back to the tab you were on.
It's this mind gap that I don't like. I recognize the ribbon does present you with actions in a more ordered way and is more task centric but this doesn't mean the result is flawless. Perhaps novices appreciate it more than I do. The ribbon has certainly come in for some heat and I suspect it's because of the effect I describe even if people can't put their finger on it. I think the ribbon could be improved if advanced users could hold down the mouse, and drag across the tabs like navigating menus, drag down to the action and release the button. The file tab needs to be completely rethought.
Slighty OT, but I experience the same problem using GNOME 3. Apps live on one screen, activities / task bar lives on another. Flipping from one to the other knocks my train of thought for six in the same way as the File tab in MS Office.
I knew this would happen so it's a shame I couldn't snag a Touchpad for want of trying. I expect CM will get very popular especially when Android 4.x rolls around.
It just seems so much slower than toolbars. Not to say toolbars don't have their own issues but ribbons can be downright annoying.
My recollection of Mandrake (before it became Mandriva) is it started off stable and got increasingly flakier with each successive release. Part of that was the ridiculously short periods between releases. It went from version 8.1 to 9 in two months including beta releases. I don't if they did this to drive new purchases or what but I basically gave up on the dist about then since it was obvious that other dists were paying far better attention to usability and quality.
Ubuntu fits on a CD and has made some relatively controversial cuts from its supported software lineup to keep the space down. I think you could level lots of criticism at Ubuntu (especially recently) but shoving junk on you is not one of them.
Ubuntu is a prettified version of Debian, so I don't even think that claim would hold water. Mandrake started off as a fork from Red Hat 5 or so. I still enjoy reading my early raves about Mandrake turning to annoyance and then rants as each passing release seemed to get progressively buggier.
If only. Try firing up Firefox with 10-12 tabs and see it slowly, but steadly, eating you memory up. A browser is one of the many apps i run on my systems, so good peformance and memory handling has a definite impact on my user experience.
Fire up 10-12 tabs and chances are you have multiple instances of Flash bogging down your computer. If not flash then you still have 10-12 DOMs, 10-12 JS sessions with random timer events, image animations and so forth going on in the background. I think Firefox should probably ship with something analogous to a Task Manager where you could see how much CPU each tab "consumed".
I don't even blame Flash for the problems of CPU consumption. Flash gets a lot of hate but its really a victim of its own success. Any piece of code which had so many instances running would hog CPU.