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  1. Re:Poor analysis - its film not the camera itself on Kodak Failing, But Camera Phones Not To Blame · · Score: 1

    My LG doesn't have displayport. It's possible to use a displayport->HDMI adaptor, but that can be flaky.

    Another IPS possibility in the same price range with displayport is Dell's ultrasharp series. They seem to get get good reviews. I've never used one myself, though.

  2. Re:Poor analysis - its film not the camera itself on Kodak Failing, But Camera Phones Not To Blame · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the use of IPS in tablets has more to do with viewing angles and not color accuracy. If the companies making these tablets really gave a damn about mobile devices having accurate colors, they wouldn't use TNs in their $2000 macbook pros and macbook pro clones.

    LG has started making a line of "budget" IPS displays. I picked up one of them last month for about $280 canadian, the S-IPS 23.6" IPS236V. It's very impressive for the price, and very good out-of-the-box, though it does benefit from additional calibration with a spyder or colormunki.

  3. Re:Horse and buggy companies didn't make it either on The Rise and Fall of Kodak · · Score: 2

    Kodak also manufactures many of the high-end sensors in medium-format digital backs. The Hasselblad H4D-40 and the Pentax 645D use the Kodak KAF-40000 sensor.

  4. Re:Can't someone sue the carriers? on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking about being able to do this for non-geek friends. I love cyanogenmod and would never go back a non-cyanogenmod-able phone, but a quick root and edit of the hosts file is invisible as far as non-geeks are concerned. Also, not all phones have cyanogenmod builds available.

  5. Re:Can't someone sue the carriers? on Android Dev Demonstrates CarrierIQ Phone Logging Software On Video · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to simply edit the hosts file on a rooted android phone to block carrier iq, or does it use ip addresses directly? Just rooting android is easier than doing the entire root/custom recovery/custom ROM dance for most people.

  6. Re:Why o why?! on Linux Mint 12 Released Today · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Compiling a full Gnome 2 desktop from source is an exercise in masochism.

  7. Re:Does this matter anyway? on Linux Mint 12 Released Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A Fedora final release is a RHEL public beta, no more, and no less.

  8. Re:Kindle Fire is one device I see no reason to ro on A Kindle Fire Review For Those Who Plan To Void the Warranty · · Score: 1

    The Vox's power management is awful as of the current firmware, v15. If you let the Vox handle power management, it often refuses to wake up wifi (if it wakes up at all) and you need to power cycle it to fix it. If you leave wifi on, the battery life goes to hell. I'm returning mine this afternoon.

    If there's a cyanogenmod release with the market for it in the future, I might pick up a new one again just for CM. The Vox's Kobo app is the exact same one that can be downloaded through the google market, so I wouldn't be losing anything by going this route.

  9. Re:Gone gold! on Minecraft Is Finished · · Score: 1

    I've started to hate Endermen more. There's ways to defend against Creepers, but aside from building every wall double-width with half-height slabs or putting moats everywhere, Endermen are gonna screw your structures up. Mob towers quickly become swiss cheese unless every floor is only two spaces high.

  10. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    For me, it's drivers. I've tried the last five Fedora releases on their respective release dates, and each one of them had a wifi or GPU (or both) driver-related showstopper of some kind. Ubuntu and its variants have handled the same hardware perfectly. Even stock Debian stable seems to handle my desktop, netbook and laptop's wifi and graphics better than Fedora 16.

  11. Re:I guess I am just too cool. on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 2

    I've just installed 11.10 on an older pentium D desktop (basically my distro-testing machine), and after finding Unity to be unusable I installed the standard Gnome 3 shell. It's definitely inspired by fisher-price baby's-first-tablet UIs, but at least it's responsive and stable and doesn't make running programs inaccessible. It's worth giving Gnome 3 a try for a day or so.

  12. Re:Yeah... Cheating... Sure... on Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up · · Score: 1

    The US heavily subsidizes financial institutions much more than manufacturers. Don't you know that banks are the real Job Creators(tm) in the 21st century?

  13. Re:Interesting on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 2

    Forgiveness of debts was feasible when AIG was in trouble, and I didn't hear much argument from conservatives to the contrary at the time.

  14. Re:Not a great endorsement on Kobo To Release Android Tablet E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Kobo uses Adobe Digital Editions DRM. It's trivial to strip off. Just google "ineptepub" and you'll find an easy solution.

  15. Re:We want something new but the same. on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    If they do, they'll laugh.

  16. Re:Wow on Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, come on. Don't you know anything about capitalism? If there's sufficient demand for oil, then the market will provide for more dinosaurs to be turned into oil on the supply side. Didn't you ever take an economics course?

  17. Wait, we're talking about the playbook? on RIM Changes Stance On PlayBook's Android Support · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought we were talking about "a moderately successful tablet device", not "a near-total failure".

  18. Re:A new JooJoo on Fusion Garage Going After Lower-Price Tablet Market · · Score: 1

    I would buy this simply because these guys screwed Michael Arrington over. The guy's a bully, and had it coming.

  19. Re:Could someone summarize the summary? on Canada Encouraged US To Place It On Piracy List · · Score: 1

    Conservative MPs, and especially cabinet ministers, don't dare sneeze without getting approval from the PMO. If a tory MP started a private project, it's a sure bet that it's because the PM approved.

  20. I think I speak for many when I say... on Java 7: What's In It For Developers · · Score: 1

    ...please don't let all these fancy tech buzzwords stop Minecraft from working.

  21. Re:Ddi they also announce on PS Vita Specs Announced · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you can buy an IOS or Android device as capable as a Vita or 3DS for the same prices, with no monthly contract.

  22. Re:Change for the sake of change? on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    That's a terrible analogy. There's nothing remotely similar between religious wackos trying to recruit other religious wackos, and religious wackos trying to recruit independent thinkers.

  23. Re:Change for the sake of change? on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Xubuntu can be as fast as Debian+XFCE, so long as one selects the classic XFCE environment at login. There are driver advantages to running an Ubuntu variant over stock Debian.

  24. Re:Exponential growth is never sustainable on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    The manufacturing of umbrellas takes energy.

  25. Re:Was It Worth It? on How To Jailbreak and Upgrade Old Android Phones · · Score: 1

    It was worth it because perfectly functional electronic hardware didn't end up contaminating a landfill. The obsession with having the newest gadget and junking old ones only because they're not new is disgusting, and you are disgusting for encouraging the practice.

    The article could have been more thorough regarding technical details, but anything that helps people learn about the possibility of upgrading older hardware is worth posting.