Lawmakers have generally made the citation worse for parking in a handicap stall than parking in the middle of the road, blocking fire lanes, etc. Nothing like a financial incentive encouraging the best behavior in society.
Hey, brookstone has a wifi-controlled car that I bought for this very reason (for my daughter who has been asking for a robot she can program).
I have figured out the control protocol and my plan is to attach a smartphone to the car and work together with her on some ways to have it smartly control the car. A phone already has much better cpu and sensors (camera, gps) than something like a low-end mindstorm has.
There should be no soldering required. I also want to focus on software. I'll let you know in a couple of months how it's going:)
poison groundwater. Why should it matter if an earthquake happens sooner or later than it might have? There's a lot of science to be done to determine that, but it's easy to see that the land and water are being ruined.
Home depot refused to tell us details about someone who used my wife's name and social security number to get a credit card with them. It turns out that would violate the thief's right to privacy. The local police were waiting for a "serious" crime to be committed before they would get involved.
I've seen hardware like an awful touchscreen flat panel or an embedded arm board that reportedly support "linux 2.6" in their marketing materials. This could literally mean they ship a kernel module or patches or whatever that haven't worked with a current kernel for something like **7 years**! Yes, we should have meaningless version bumps in the kernel, but they should happen more often than once or twice each decade.
This comparison to MSDOS/PCs really bothers me. I see it all the time. There's a huge problem with drawing the comparison to MS-DOS--the lack of a standardized bios on android phones.
I could upgrade a PC with a new os without worrying about who made the PC. There's no situation like that with android devices. You're lucky if the manufacturer still supports upgrades on your device, then you fall back to community support if there is any, then you're stuck. There are several examples of android phones that were already end-of-lifed when they were still being sold new. When was that ever happening in the PC market?
It looks like this is unrelated, but a fun adventure for everyone.
I had a motorola flip phone I was using for tethering with verizon in 2007. I started getting bills for $600, $700, $800 for each month. I would call in and they would fix it. After about three months of this they told me they would not fix it any more. I had to get a firmware upgrade after which tethering stopped working. The device was worthless to me.
When I looked at the bill, it seems I was being charged per minute if I connected through the 1xrtt network. One rep actually told me "unlimited broadband" meant only unlimited when it was 3g and I was responsible to pay for when it connected at the slower speed. But there was no way to disable the 1xrtt fallback. It was just a convenient lie.
Then the collections department started calling me, saying "when do you think you will be paying this $1800 bill?" I asked them if they knew there were open tickets on the account to fix the broken charges. It basically came back to "but when do you think you will be paying this bill?"
I insisted on a device replacement and they got me a palm treo that worked ok but never as well as the flip phone for what I needed. They also reversed all the bad charges.
I quit verizon when the contract was done and I'm never going back.
interesting that you lump these two together... they're polar opposites in the FPU capabilities. alpha had a really good FPU and strongarm had none at all.
I also have the p1510. I can't go to 16gb because I'm struggling to fit everything on the 30gb drive. I might get the 32gb ssd. I can dream of a day when 64gb is available and reasonably priced, but it would be nice to replace the p1510 itself with something the same size that runs cooler and for longer. I want something the size of my p1510 but with the power management and battery life of my nokia n800. We'll see.
Offtopic, but the memory situation is better. It was changing daily almost but settled at about $120. Hope it's not too ugly to post a url here, but it's hard to find this stuff: http://www.memoryc.ie/products/10800.html
How about you get in a vehicle that is adapted for ground travel... when you get to a place where aircraft take off and land, you grab your bag, get out of that vehicle, and climb into a vehicle designed for air travel? Stay with me here--I know it sounds crazy.
You could have a "friend" pilot the first vehicle for you and take care of storing it afterwards. Maybe you could even "pay" someone to "taxi" you in such a ground travel vehicle to the "airport" (for lack of a better word) where you enter the second vehicle.
It just takes a little imagination to change the world.
I want a wallet that looks like a tiny mattress. It will come in handy when the banks collapse and people start hiding their money in mattresses again--my money will already be in the mattress!
At the supercomputing 2005 conference, Microsoft made the unfortunate decision to hand out cookies with "Cluster Server 2003" on them. We enjoyed joking about what a mistake it is to accept cookies from Microsoft. Not until later did I think about the date! Nearly 2006 and they were giving out food items with "2003" on them!
This is how the Nokia 770 makes use of the dsp, so there may even start to be more mainstream interest. (The Nokia 770 is a linux platform running on a TI OMAP 1710)
The A2DP encoder, even at highest quality, is well below 700kbps (the bluetooth 1.x baseband rate). And yes, it's a lossy codec that is not as size efficient as mp3 but is supposed to be have greater cpu efficiency.
You cut the complexity and bitrate in half when using A2DP's 4 subband rather than higher quality 8 subbands. I have a sort of tinny sounding headset (iTech) so I prefer the results when using 4 subbands.
We don't have EVDO in my area yet, but I do this all the time with my laptop and a 1xrtt connection. It connects through bluetooth to my v710 and I share the connection using an atheros wifi card.
I was going to switch to an intel wifi card when the driver started improving, but they don't support master mode yet.
Under debian, it's fairly easy using ipmasq. If I "ifup" the wireless adapter when there is already a default route (from the phone or ethernet), the wifi card is set up to take a static address with no default route of its own and fire up a dhcp server before it reruns ipmasq.
I was running it today on the bus. A pal was using it for his network connection but he had to ride a lot farther than I did so he was sad when my stop came up.
I wish I knew how to make the net sharing stealthy like OpenBSD does. Without any stealth, I think if verizon wanted to figure out who was sharing their connection, they could find out.
I currently have a Toshiba Portege M200 running Linux. When I do use it folded back as a tablet, it's when I'm just reading something. The handwriting recognition (xstroke) is just too frustrating to use for much text so I fold it back around to laptop style if I need to type. The one problem with reading on my m200 is that the machine is too heavy and awkward at 2kg.
The flybook is about half that at 1.1kg. The problem currently is no one has gotten the touchscreen to work in linux. (see handtops discussions). I'm waiting to see before I buy it.
Tripling the bandwidth would allow lossless transmission to stereo headphones, where currently it's (slightly) compressed.
The big problem with compressing the audio is the delay. The bt420 stereo headset I just bought is great but it's useless for watching TV because the transmitter introduces a lip sync problem. Maybe a computer doing the encoding would be better, but there's no way to know yet.
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It's all good... battery dies at the same time you use up your data cap for the month. After 41 minutes. (2GB at 6.44Mbps)
Lawmakers have generally made the citation worse for parking in a handicap stall than parking in the middle of the road, blocking fire lanes, etc. Nothing like a financial incentive encouraging the best behavior in society.
Hey, brookstone has a wifi-controlled car that I bought for this very reason (for my daughter who has been asking for a robot she can program).
I have figured out the control protocol and my plan is to attach a smartphone to the car and work together with her on some ways to have it smartly control the car. A phone already has much better cpu and sensors (camera, gps) than something like a low-end mindstorm has.
There should be no soldering required. I also want to focus on software. I'll let you know in a couple of months how it's going :)
poison groundwater. Why should it matter if an earthquake happens sooner or later than it might have? There's a lot of science to be done to determine that, but it's easy to see that the land and water are being ruined.
The upgrade to an iPad 3 is going to be a killer.
Home depot refused to tell us details about someone who used my wife's name and social security number to get a credit card with them. It turns out that would violate the thief's right to privacy. The local police were waiting for a "serious" crime to be committed before they would get involved.
I've seen hardware like an awful touchscreen flat panel or an embedded arm board that reportedly support "linux 2.6" in their marketing materials. This could literally mean they ship a kernel module or patches or whatever that haven't worked with a current kernel for something like **7 years**! Yes, we should have meaningless version bumps in the kernel, but they should happen more often than once or twice each decade.
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This comparison to MSDOS/PCs really bothers me. I see it all the time. There's a huge problem with drawing the comparison to MS-DOS--the lack of a standardized bios on android phones.
I could upgrade a PC with a new os without worrying about who made the PC. There's no situation like that with android devices. You're lucky if the manufacturer still supports upgrades on your device, then you fall back to community support if there is any, then you're stuck. There are several examples of android phones that were already end-of-lifed when they were still being sold new. When was that ever happening in the PC market?
It looks like this is unrelated, but a fun adventure for everyone.
I had a motorola flip phone I was using for tethering with verizon in 2007. I started getting bills for $600, $700, $800 for each month. I would call in and they would fix it. After about three months of this they told me they would not fix it any more. I had to get a firmware upgrade after which tethering stopped working. The device was worthless to me.
When I looked at the bill, it seems I was being charged per minute if I connected through the 1xrtt network. One rep actually told me "unlimited broadband" meant only unlimited when it was 3g and I was responsible to pay for when it connected at the slower speed. But there was no way to disable the 1xrtt fallback. It was just a convenient lie.
Then the collections department started calling me, saying "when do you think you will be paying this $1800 bill?" I asked them if they knew there were open tickets on the account to fix the broken charges. It basically came back to "but when do you think you will be paying this bill?"
I insisted on a device replacement and they got me a palm treo that worked ok but never as well as the flip phone for what I needed. They also reversed all the bad charges.
I quit verizon when the contract was done and I'm never going back.
sure, lump together is the wrong phrase. They were only mentioned together.
interesting that you lump these two together... they're polar opposites in the FPU capabilities. alpha had a really good FPU and strongarm had none at all.
At least on linux, it's possible for a rootkit to hide itself completely from anything you can run in that OS to try to find it.
:(
The only way to be sure without shutting down and booting from trusted media, eg a CD, is to virtualize the OS and examine it from the hypervisor.
This does assume the hypervisor itself is safe from the guest. We've had kernel bugs in the past that might leave it vulnerable.
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I also have the p1510. I can't go to 16gb because I'm struggling to fit everything on the 30gb drive. I might get the 32gb ssd. I can dream of a day when 64gb is available and reasonably priced, but it would be nice to replace the p1510 itself with something the same size that runs cooler and for longer. I want something the size of my p1510 but with the power management and battery life of my nokia n800. We'll see.
Offtopic, but the memory situation is better. It was changing daily almost but settled at about $120. Hope it's not too ugly to post a url here, but it's hard to find this stuff: http://www.memoryc.ie/products/10800.html
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How about you get in a vehicle that is adapted for ground travel... when you get to a place where aircraft take off and land, you grab your bag, get out of that vehicle, and climb into a vehicle designed for air travel? Stay with me here--I know it sounds crazy.
You could have a "friend" pilot the first vehicle for you and take care of storing it afterwards. Maybe you could even "pay" someone to "taxi" you in such a ground travel vehicle to the "airport" (for lack of a better word) where you enter the second vehicle.
It just takes a little imagination to change the world.
I want a wallet that looks like a tiny mattress. It will come in handy when the banks collapse and people start hiding their money in mattresses again--my money will already be in the mattress!
At the supercomputing 2005 conference, Microsoft made the unfortunate decision to hand out cookies with "Cluster Server 2003" on them. We enjoyed joking about what a mistake it is to accept cookies from Microsoft. Not until later did I think about the date! Nearly 2006 and they were giving out food items with "2003" on them!
Is TI doing anything to work with the dspgateway project? It's already giving linux on OMAP access to the dsp.
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http://dspgateway.sourceforge.net/pub/index.php?P
This is how the Nokia 770 makes use of the dsp, so there may even start to be more mainstream interest. (The Nokia 770 is a linux platform running on a TI OMAP 1710)
The A2DP encoder, even at highest quality, is well below 700kbps (the bluetooth 1.x baseband rate). And yes, it's a lossy codec that is not as size efficient as mp3 but is supposed to be have greater cpu efficiency.
You cut the complexity and bitrate in half when using A2DP's 4 subband rather than higher quality 8 subbands. I have a sort of tinny sounding headset (iTech) so I prefer the results when using 4 subbands.
Guys, why would it be good for every company interested in working with Linux to create a distro? Isn't that exactly what we don't need?
"We'd love to use Walmart Linux but we have a large installed base of Burger King Linux at the moment."
We don't have EVDO in my area yet, but I do this all the time with my laptop and a 1xrtt connection. It connects through bluetooth to my v710 and I share the connection using an atheros wifi card.
I was going to switch to an intel wifi card when the driver started improving, but they don't support master mode yet.
Under debian, it's fairly easy using ipmasq. If I "ifup" the wireless adapter when there is already a default route (from the phone or ethernet), the wifi card is set up to take a static address with no default route of its own and fire up a dhcp server before it reruns ipmasq.
I was running it today on the bus. A pal was using it for his network connection but he had to ride a lot farther than I did so he was sad when my stop came up.
I wish I knew how to make the net sharing stealthy like OpenBSD does. Without any stealth, I think if verizon wanted to figure out who was sharing their connection, they could find out.
I currently have a Toshiba Portege M200 running Linux. When I do use it folded back as a tablet, it's when I'm just reading something. The handwriting recognition (xstroke) is just too frustrating to use for much text so I fold it back around to laptop style if I need to type. The one problem with reading on my m200 is that the machine is too heavy and awkward at 2kg.
The flybook is about half that at 1.1kg. The problem currently is no one has gotten the touchscreen to work in linux. (see handtops discussions). I'm waiting to see before I buy it.
The big problem with compressing the audio is the delay. The bt420 stereo headset I just bought is great but it's useless for watching TV because the transmitter introduces a lip sync problem. Maybe a computer doing the encoding would be better, but there's no way to know yet.