Sorry, but until you *used* an n900, you simply have no idea how limited an android phone is. Full terminal by default, I can remote-X phone applications from my laptop, openvpn is 3 clicks away, I can run fucking lighttpd and torrent trackers on it (with the DEFAULT repositories). I wrote a Mandelbrot generator for a class project (in pure SDL and unix IPC). Took 5 minutes with a chroot to get that sucker compiling and running on my n900.
You could spend a week rooting, customizing and overhauling the best android phone out there and still not come close to what the n900 would do out of the box.
Yeah, when I read the title I assumed they were talking about the physical fitness video games with motion controllers and stuff. These I consider "competition video games" and it's been known for years to be over 90% male (I knew someone who won competitions in Counter Strike).
If a standard touch interface (like those shown at the beginning of the video) only had 8 controls, they'd be easy to use without looking as well. This is just another flashing interface that works great for a small number of controls but quickly degenerates into chaos when you try to control the number of systems and settings a REAL car interface has to deal with.
Or maybe what parts of the world it can be seen from. If the summary said "visible from Africa and southern Europe", then I know to just skip the whole article. If it says "visible from the North-West, then I'll read into". The article even STARTS with the assumption that we not only know about it, but know if we're in a prime viewing location.
Dear Slashdot, I would like the propose that all astronomical phenomenon with possible earth-viewing capabilities list at minimum the following information in the summary:
1) Date & Time with timezone (either specific to the viewable location or in GMT).
2) Location(s) where it can be seen by telescope or noticed with the naked eye.
3) Location(s) where a decent view can be had with the naked eye.
4) If any of the above locations different in date/time, they should list them with the same criteria as point 1.
It's to protect their trademark AND their users. If you make a derivative, there is no problem if you say your operating system is *based* on Ubuntu, but you cannot use their logos or claim it is sanctioned by Canonical without their permission. This prevents people from making shoddy (or malicious) derivatives and using their brand name to harm Canonical's brand name or users.
Of course, I am not a lawyer, so if you do plan to make a derivative, read the license(s) yourself.
It's not just boot time that is faster (it was just the most obvious). Even normal service starting/stopping and some logging stuff is faster. There are also some very powerful log querying you can, though I haven't really looked into them much myself.
Because it is VERY difficult to ascertain whether the source of an inbound packet is forged unless it is very obvious (like an IP that should be inside your network or on a private subnet). Outbound traffic on the other hand should almost always have a source IP that belongs to your assigned ranges (or configured private subnets).
When I was in the hospital last year I noticed that the heart monitor (with built in defib) had bluetooth. I don't think I want something hooked up to me that has both A) the ability to deliver massive amounts of electricity to my chest and B) bluetooth.
Debian is about the biggest project not yet using Systemd. Fedora switched ages ago, Arch switched a year ago and once Debian does it, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of its decendants (Ubuntu, Mint, etc) will probably follow suite shortly. Systemd is a little more complex to maintain, but the performance difference alone is *astounding*. I remember when Arch made the change and I instantly went from a 30 second boot to an 6 second boot with apache, mysql and a bunch of other auto-start stuff turned on.
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Sorry, but until you *used* an n900, you simply have no idea how limited an android phone is. Full terminal by default, I can remote-X phone applications from my laptop, openvpn is 3 clicks away, I can run fucking lighttpd and torrent trackers on it (with the DEFAULT repositories). I wrote a Mandelbrot generator for a class project (in pure SDL and unix IPC). Took 5 minutes with a chroot to get that sucker compiling and running on my n900.
You could spend a week rooting, customizing and overhauling the best android phone out there and still not come close to what the n900 would do out of the box.
Yeah, when I read the title I assumed they were talking about the physical fitness video games with motion controllers and stuff. These I consider "competition video games" and it's been known for years to be over 90% male (I knew someone who won competitions in Counter Strike).
You haven't been on youtube lately have you?
If a standard touch interface (like those shown at the beginning of the video) only had 8 controls, they'd be easy to use without looking as well. This is just another flashing interface that works great for a small number of controls but quickly degenerates into chaos when you try to control the number of systems and settings a REAL car interface has to deal with.
Good, but that doesn't do much for the non-technical people who bought this and won't be checking for firmware updates every weekend.
Belkin now owns Linksys.
Yet the telescope being used for the cam is in the Virgin Islands, so who the hell knows where else we can see it from!
Nope, mine is only IPv4 (Wind Mobile in Western Canada).
Or maybe what parts of the world it can be seen from. If the summary said "visible from Africa and southern Europe", then I know to just skip the whole article. If it says "visible from the North-West, then I'll read into". The article even STARTS with the assumption that we not only know about it, but know if we're in a prime viewing location.
Dear Slashdot, I would like the propose that all astronomical phenomenon with possible earth-viewing capabilities list at minimum the following information in the summary:
1) Date & Time with timezone (either specific to the viewable location or in GMT).
2) Location(s) where it can be seen by telescope or noticed with the naked eye.
3) Location(s) where a decent view can be had with the naked eye.
4) If any of the above locations different in date/time, they should list them with the same criteria as point 1.
You're jumping to conclusions again. Who says the simulator is in a binary system? I could be trinary.
It's to protect their trademark AND their users. If you make a derivative, there is no problem if you say your operating system is *based* on Ubuntu, but you cannot use their logos or claim it is sanctioned by Canonical without their permission. This prevents people from making shoddy (or malicious) derivatives and using their brand name to harm Canonical's brand name or users.
Of course, I am not a lawyer, so if you do plan to make a derivative, read the license(s) yourself.
It could be a corrupted configuration. Try doing a 30-30-30 reset and reloading the settings from a previous backup.
I wonder how that third marriage statistic changes if you eliminate those that started when at least one of the participants were elderly.
I love my N9. Best UI I've ever seen on a phone. After using Meego for a day, I couldn't stand the monstrosity that is Android's interface.
Correct, Maemo was GTK and Meego was QT. I owned an N900 till it died (ran over by a car) and still use my N9.
Ah, so it's a series of 1 dimensional snapshots!
The only reason I have one is that my bank doesn't have debit cards that can be used online.
"The rest of us" can't financially afford to.
Then one solar-flare-reversed-bit later all your work is undone in a microsecond.
I know a lot of people that get grumpy when the earth and sun are positioned such that the majority of the earth is between them and the sun.
No problem, as long as they don't also give it the ability to send massive amounts of electricity into my heart.
It's not just boot time that is faster (it was just the most obvious). Even normal service starting/stopping and some logging stuff is faster. There are also some very powerful log querying you can, though I haven't really looked into them much myself.
Because it is VERY difficult to ascertain whether the source of an inbound packet is forged unless it is very obvious (like an IP that should be inside your network or on a private subnet). Outbound traffic on the other hand should almost always have a source IP that belongs to your assigned ranges (or configured private subnets).
When I was in the hospital last year I noticed that the heart monitor (with built in defib) had bluetooth. I don't think I want something hooked up to me that has both A) the ability to deliver massive amounts of electricity to my chest and B) bluetooth.
Debian is about the biggest project not yet using Systemd. Fedora switched ages ago, Arch switched a year ago and once Debian does it, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of its decendants (Ubuntu, Mint, etc) will probably follow suite shortly. Systemd is a little more complex to maintain, but the performance difference alone is *astounding*. I remember when Arch made the change and I instantly went from a 30 second boot to an 6 second boot with apache, mysql and a bunch of other auto-start stuff turned on.