Ugh. Androids drivers are a mess and cyanogen just makes that more apparent. My n900 has a specialized kernel, injection and monitor mode, overclocking, and they even made better camera drivers. With cyanogen mod the opposite happens...things break. Some hardware just completely is unusable. Android is nothing at all like the n900 was, and google will never let that happen anyway. Nor do the manufacturers want it.
As for Debian on an android? Yo dawg, i heard you like Linux, but since you can't have Linux we put some virtualized Linux in your virtualized Linux.
I'm reasonably certain Google does not give a hoot what you do with your android phone. Manufacturers and more commonly, carriers, are the ones that do not want you messing about. See Google Nexus. Your carrier is going to want you messing about with a maemo phone just as much as they want you messing about with android or iOS devices.
I run cyanogen. Sometimes things break. How often depends on ow well supported your device is. It's not the end of the world, or hasn't been for me so far. Much like Linux on a non mainstream device, stability depends on the combined efforts of the development community and the manufacturer. For someone capable of and interested in modifying an OS kernel, I find it hard to believe this would be a roadblock.
By the capitalist wreckers who are trying to smash the unions and destroy public education.
Or do you think all those millionaires like Bill Gates and Obama who send their kids to elite private schools give a shit about public school students?
Interestingly, Obama always supported the all-powerful teachers union in Chicago, who managed to get working conditions so good for their members that the schools had to cut the number of teaching days to afford those gold-plated teachers. I cAs a direct consequence, this is one of the areas in the country with the lowest ratio of college grads. Yes we can!
I can't believe I'm the first one to reply that Correlation != causation.
It's really just a touchscreen laptop with a crappy keyboard. Yes, it's more functional than most tablets, but there are more powerful laptops about the same size and weight with better performance, etc. They're pretty much functionally equivalent,aren't they?
Technically speaking, the surface pro doesn't come with a keyboard at all. You're probably thinking of the "touch" and "type" covers that are sold. I don't care for either. This is pretty much the same story for every other tablet I've seen for sale. Specifications wise, it is almost identical to my HP Elitebook 8470p laptop.
I added a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. It does come with an excellent pen, which I use for taking notes in meetings. Not a good replacement for my desktop computer, but it does quite well in most situations where a laptop would be used. The only exception I've found is on airplanes. Need a keyboard with an attachment stiff enough to support the screen. I imagine you'd have the same problem in a car, but I'm rarely in a car if I'm not the one driving it.
If you're comfortable disassembling with a heat gun you can upgrade the SSD. It's mSATA I think. The ram is soldered on and there is no room for upgrading unfortunately. In my opinion, only 4GB of ram is this device's biggest weakness.
Obviously a lot of people want to learn how to breakdance. That's what Surface tablets are for, right? I watch a lot of tv commercials
I've got one (the original PRO), it's great for a portable device. Full on windows that can actually run real programs yet shaped like a tablet. I've got an ipad and a Samsung galaxy tab that were used for a couple months but then were relegated to dust collection. Man can only play so much angry birds...
I prefer taking it to meetings over my laptop.
And remember. It's just an intel Core i5 computer with an SSD and 4gb of ram shaped like a tablet. If you don't like win8, then install Linux, or whatever OS you want on one.
It's not even close to perfect, but it's the best attempt at a tablet I've seen for sale.
I maintain a reserve supply of bottled air in my garage. I've got almost 700 cubic feet. 10-15 hours worth at my average consumption rate.
Gee, it would be a real shame if something happened to your precious air reserve. Such as, I don't know, if someone pressed this little button on your garage door opener?
It's compressed and in bottles. I wasn't talking about the ambient air in the garage.
Introduce some new workers on the payroll... cats. Spayed and full treatments. Have them able to be clearly identifiable so people know they are on the job.
I moved into a new suburb that is predominately a dog neighbourhood about two years ago. I still wake up most mornings to a nice dead rat on the welcome mat. I still cannot believe the number of rats that he's caught.
And don't hit me with the argument of native wildlife. Dogs are just as bad and most species now are introduced. The hit rate of vermin to non vermin way, way high.
NYC has the best pizza in the world, and the really big rats are usually on the subway tracks (and they are smart, never saw one get nailed by the 3rd rail in the 20 years I lived there).
I guess I have to admit that I've never actually eaten pizza IN NYC. I've had numerous pizzas that are "NY Style" or sold as "NY Pizza". So far the "NY Style" pizza I've experienced is nothing special. Perhaps the real thing is significantly different. I guess I can hope that NY pizza is the one recipe on the planet that cannot be readily duplicated by others.
Because the submitter doesn't know how to do it right, and the "editors" don't know how to do their job. What else do you expect from Slashdot?
I used to expect a lot more from Slashdot, but now that none of the old-guard are left it's steadily and inexorably slipping in the same fashion that kuro5hin, The Register, and other tech sites have slipped.
In case you didn't know, there are holding companies buying up forums, news sites, aggregators, etc. At this point half-a-dozen automotive forums that I've used are now under one company, and that company milks the forums for advertising revenue without really policing the forums for abuse anymore. Since those forums lack a community-policing method like Slashdot and a few others there's very little to stop the race to the bottom as suddenly off-topic discussions, especially politics, come to pollute the original purpose with garbage that has nothing to do with cars.
These companies often don't advertise that they're in charge of so many forums, but some like The HAMB do. I encourage people to leave forums that head down this route, it's the only way to let these companies know that we don't appreciate what they're doing. Unfortunately that's probably a losing battle as there are a lot more users to replace those that walk away.
It's true, DICE knows how to kill a website. Hopefully someone will create an alternative that garners an interesting audience someday.
Shitting all over your most supportive users (Score:5, Insightful)
is not a viable long term strategy.
Apple: - What?
I don't think that was apple's strategy specifically. More of a consequence of being so successful. They just don't care. Apple's strategy is to be fashionable and cool rather than functional. Things seem to be on the decline for the fruity company in my estimation. This behavior will help drive them back into obscurity once again.
Not only that, but very few people live 100 meters from a grocery. I'm about 2km from my nearest grocery store. I guess in Europe you have grocery stores strategically placed about 200 meters from each other?
yup, they're economists basing everything around economics.
They could have combined their findings with other areas of expertise - such as common sense - by saying "people are just fucking lazy, so we find that by making organ donation on death the default option, there will be many more organs available that used not to be collected because people were too lazy to fill out the donation form, they'll still be too lazy to fill out the opt-out form".
Any theory that ignores all but one aspect of human nature is ultimate self-serving. In this case, making money for someone.
Where is this form? When I got my drivers license, the person asked me verbally if I wanted to be an organ donor. I said yes, and that was it. It's recorded in my government records and printed on the license. I could have answered no, but I had to answer something. It doesn't get much easier than saying one word.
If there is enough evidence for arrest, then there is enough evidence TO GET A GODDAMN WARRANT. Does the Fourth Amendment mean nothing to ANYONE anymore?
That's why you have to be specific. "I do not consent to any search. Am I free to leave?"
Good luck with asserting your rights to police officers in the US. Here's an example. All they need is probable cause> which they can create. Of course that's if you're not part of the 66% of Americans living in the constitution free zone. If you're part of the 66%, then police don't even need probable cause as you aren't being protected by the fourth amendment.
I'd love to hear the SCOTUS side with the people on this, but I fear it would only be symbolic.
The FCC's job here is to create rules to promote safety. If it's an annoyance issue then the airlines should be the ones making rules about it. We don't need the FCC legislating cell phone use in movie theaters and cell phone use in planes can be dealt with the same way - anyone who won't stop talking on their phone in the theater/plane will be made to leave.
Right on. I don't want cell phones being used in planes either. However, I agree it's not the place of our government to outlaw something that is merely annoying.
Unfortunately, you can't make an airline passenger leave a plane in flight.
Do cell phones really get enough signal to operate on a plane?
I wish I could go back in time to 2005. I wish I could. I would warn the world about Ruby on Rails. I would warn the world about JavaScript. I would warn the world about the hipsters who come preaching those shitty, shitty "technologies". I would warn the world about the destruction these freaks would bring to our industry.
Would anyone listen? I don't know. Intelligent people probably would. They can inherently sense the stupidity of hipsters, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, even without seeing them in action. But even if nobody listened, at least I could sleep knowing that I tried my best; that I wasn't complacent.
Hipsters and their web fanaticism has caused so much trouble. Website design is utter shit today (just look at the Slashdot beta website for proof of this). All sorts of devices are now "web-enabled" for no good reason at all, with disturbing consequences. Personal and private data harvesting is at an all-time high. Hipsters killed the GNOME desktop project with their half-assed GNOME 3 release.
I wish I could say that I'm an old man, screaming at the kids to "get off my lawn". But I'm just in my 30s! The computing industry truly has been destroyed so quickly by these hipsters, it's quite unbelievable.
I feel immense shame for not having noticed the hipster plague earlier. I feel self disappointment for not having spoken out sooner. It didn't have to come to this.
You would have to go back to 1994 to predate javascript. Javascript is not related to "hipsters" as that term has only recently come to popularity. Nice troll, though. You got a lot of responses, and even a couple of mod points!
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Ugh. Androids drivers are a mess and cyanogen just makes that more apparent. My n900 has a specialized kernel, injection and monitor mode, overclocking, and they even made better camera drivers. With cyanogen mod the opposite happens...things break. Some hardware just completely is unusable. Android is nothing at all like the n900 was, and google will never let that happen anyway. Nor do the manufacturers want it.
As for Debian on an android? Yo dawg, i heard you like Linux, but since you can't have Linux we put some virtualized Linux in your virtualized Linux.
I'm reasonably certain Google does not give a hoot what you do with your android phone. Manufacturers and more commonly, carriers, are the ones that do not want you messing about. See Google Nexus. Your carrier is going to want you messing about with a maemo phone just as much as they want you messing about with android or iOS devices.
I run cyanogen. Sometimes things break. How often depends on ow well supported your device is. It's not the end of the world, or hasn't been for me so far. Much like Linux on a non mainstream device, stability depends on the combined efforts of the development community and the manufacturer. For someone capable of and interested in modifying an OS kernel, I find it hard to believe this would be a roadblock.
By the capitalist wreckers who are trying to smash the unions and destroy public education.
Or do you think all those millionaires like Bill Gates and Obama who send their kids to elite private schools give a shit about public school students?
Interestingly, Obama always supported the all-powerful teachers union in Chicago, who managed to get working conditions so good for their members that the schools had to cut the number of teaching days to afford those gold-plated teachers. I cAs a direct consequence, this is one of the areas in the country with the lowest ratio of college grads. Yes we can!
I can't believe I'm the first one to reply that Correlation != causation.
Why exactly is this a direct consequence?
It's really just a touchscreen laptop with a crappy keyboard. Yes, it's more functional than most tablets, but there are more powerful laptops about the same size and weight with better performance, etc. They're pretty much functionally equivalent,aren't they?
Technically speaking, the surface pro doesn't come with a keyboard at all. You're probably thinking of the "touch" and "type" covers that are sold. I don't care for either. This is pretty much the same story for every other tablet I've seen for sale. Specifications wise, it is almost identical to my HP Elitebook 8470p laptop.
I added a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. It does come with an excellent pen, which I use for taking notes in meetings.
Not a good replacement for my desktop computer, but it does quite well in most situations where a laptop would be used. The only exception I've found is on airplanes. Need a keyboard with an attachment stiff enough to support the screen. I imagine you'd have the same problem in a car, but I'm rarely in a car if I'm not the one driving it.
If you're comfortable disassembling with a heat gun you can upgrade the SSD. It's mSATA I think. The ram is soldered on and there is no room for upgrading unfortunately. In my opinion, only 4GB of ram is this device's biggest weakness.
Obviously a lot of people want to learn how to breakdance. That's what Surface tablets are for, right? I watch a lot of tv commercials
I've got one (the original PRO), it's great for a portable device. Full on windows that can actually run real programs yet shaped like a tablet. I've got an ipad and a Samsung galaxy tab that were used for a couple months but then were relegated to dust collection. Man can only play so much angry birds...
I prefer taking it to meetings over my laptop.
And remember. It's just an intel Core i5 computer with an SSD and 4gb of ram shaped like a tablet. If you don't like win8, then install Linux, or whatever OS you want on one.
It's not even close to perfect, but it's the best attempt at a tablet I've seen for sale.
I'd rather have Italian cooks in heaven...
The french are also better known for being good lovers than the Italians.
I maintain a reserve supply of bottled air in my garage. I've got almost 700 cubic feet. 10-15 hours worth at my average consumption rate.
Gee, it would be a real shame if something happened to your precious air reserve. Such as, I don't know, if someone pressed this little button on your garage door opener?
It's compressed and in bottles. I wasn't talking about the ambient air in the garage.
The best part of Facebook's article is where they use identical research methodology to prove that there will be no air left by 2060.
I predict an immediate rush on all stockpiles of canned air!
I maintain a reserve supply of bottled air in my garage. I've got almost 700 cubic feet. 10-15 hours worth at my average consumption rate.
Well, NYC is carrying out a Rat Indexing Initiative for Manhattan and the Bronx, per TFA.
So either they'll find the Wall St rats clustered around former Mayor Bloomberg, or they'll find the Yankees. Or me.
Are you saying you cluster around Bloomberg?
Introduce some new workers on the payroll ... cats. Spayed and full treatments. Have them able to be clearly identifiable so people know they are on the job.
I moved into a new suburb that is predominately a dog neighbourhood about two years ago. I still wake up most mornings to a nice dead rat on the welcome mat. I still cannot believe the number of rats that he's caught.
And don't hit me with the argument of native wildlife. Dogs are just as bad and most species now are introduced. The hit rate of vermin to non vermin way, way high.
In some cities there are coyotes brought in for this purpose. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulw...
The best line I ever heard about pizza:
Pizza is like sex. Even when it's not very good, it's still pretty good.
The person you heard that from was not doing it right.
NYC has the best pizza in the world, and the really big rats are usually on the subway tracks (and they are smart, never saw one get nailed by the 3rd rail in the 20 years I lived there).
I guess I have to admit that I've never actually eaten pizza IN NYC. I've had numerous pizzas that are "NY Style" or sold as "NY Pizza". So far the "NY Style" pizza I've experienced is nothing special. Perhaps the real thing is significantly different. I guess I can hope that NY pizza is the one recipe on the planet that cannot be readily duplicated by others.
I used to expect a lot more from Slashdot, but now that none of the old-guard are left it's steadily and inexorably slipping in the same fashion that kuro5hin, The Register, and other tech sites have slipped. In case you didn't know, there are holding companies buying up forums, news sites, aggregators, etc. At this point half-a-dozen automotive forums that I've used are now under one company, and that company milks the forums for advertising revenue without really policing the forums for abuse anymore. Since those forums lack a community-policing method like Slashdot and a few others there's very little to stop the race to the bottom as suddenly off-topic discussions, especially politics, come to pollute the original purpose with garbage that has nothing to do with cars. These companies often don't advertise that they're in charge of so many forums, but some like The HAMB do. I encourage people to leave forums that head down this route, it's the only way to let these companies know that we don't appreciate what they're doing. Unfortunately that's probably a losing battle as there are a lot more users to replace those that walk away.
It's true, DICE knows how to kill a website. Hopefully someone will create an alternative that garners an interesting audience someday.
Memories....
Why doesn't the summary for articles like these spell out unfamiliar abbreviations such as "contributor license agreement"?
PSSH. Everyone knows this article is about the computer law association.
If you can't carry them 100m how are you going to get them from the checkout to your car?
We use shopping carts to move the groceries to the vehicle. It's a crime to remove them a shopping cart a store's parking lot.
Shitting all over your most supportive users (Score:5, Insightful) is not a viable long term strategy.
Apple: - What?
I don't think that was apple's strategy specifically. More of a consequence of being so successful. They just don't care. Apple's strategy is to be fashionable and cool rather than functional. Things seem to be on the decline for the fruity company in my estimation. This behavior will help drive them back into obscurity once again.
Not only that, but very few people live 100 meters from a grocery. I'm about 2km from my nearest grocery store. I guess in Europe you have grocery stores strategically placed about 200 meters from each other?
- taking the car to the grocery store that's 100 meters from your place is just stupid.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
In most western nations, your family also has to agree for your organs to be donated upon your death
I'm in the US. Fortunately, I haven't experienced that end of the system yet.
yup, they're economists basing everything around economics.
They could have combined their findings with other areas of expertise - such as common sense - by saying "people are just fucking lazy, so we find that by making organ donation on death the default option, there will be many more organs available that used not to be collected because people were too lazy to fill out the donation form, they'll still be too lazy to fill out the opt-out form".
Any theory that ignores all but one aspect of human nature is ultimate self-serving. In this case, making money for someone.
Where is this form? When I got my drivers license, the person asked me verbally if I wanted to be an organ donor. I said yes, and that was it. It's recorded in my government records and printed on the license. I could have answered no, but I had to answer something. It doesn't get much easier than saying one word.
You almost had me until the phrase "self plagiarism" appeared.
Plagarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
I think my teenage daughter would say "derp."
If there is enough evidence for arrest, then there is enough evidence TO GET A GODDAMN WARRANT. Does the Fourth Amendment mean nothing to ANYONE anymore?
Unfortunately it no longer applies to the majority of Americans.
That's why you have to be specific. "I do not consent to any search. Am I free to leave?"
Good luck with asserting your rights to police officers in the US. Here's an example. All they need is probable cause> which they can create. Of course that's if you're not part of the 66% of Americans living in the constitution free zone. If you're part of the 66%, then police don't even need probable cause as you aren't being protected by the fourth amendment.
I'd love to hear the SCOTUS side with the people on this, but I fear it would only be symbolic.
" (data usage okay, but no cell usage)."
The FCC's job here is to create rules to promote safety. If it's an annoyance issue then the airlines should be the ones making rules about it. We don't need the FCC legislating cell phone use in movie theaters and cell phone use in planes can be dealt with the same way - anyone who won't stop talking on their phone in the theater/plane will be made to leave.
Right on. I don't want cell phones being used in planes either. However, I agree it's not the place of our government to outlaw something that is merely annoying.
Unfortunately, you can't make an airline passenger leave a plane in flight.
Do cell phones really get enough signal to operate on a plane?
I wish I could go back in time to 2005. I wish I could. I would warn the world about Ruby on Rails. I would warn the world about JavaScript. I would warn the world about the hipsters who come preaching those shitty, shitty "technologies". I would warn the world about the destruction these freaks would bring to our industry.
Would anyone listen? I don't know. Intelligent people probably would. They can inherently sense the stupidity of hipsters, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, even without seeing them in action. But even if nobody listened, at least I could sleep knowing that I tried my best; that I wasn't complacent.
Hipsters and their web fanaticism has caused so much trouble. Website design is utter shit today (just look at the Slashdot beta website for proof of this). All sorts of devices are now "web-enabled" for no good reason at all, with disturbing consequences. Personal and private data harvesting is at an all-time high. Hipsters killed the GNOME desktop project with their half-assed GNOME 3 release.
I wish I could say that I'm an old man, screaming at the kids to "get off my lawn". But I'm just in my 30s! The computing industry truly has been destroyed so quickly by these hipsters, it's quite unbelievable.
I feel immense shame for not having noticed the hipster plague earlier. I feel self disappointment for not having spoken out sooner. It didn't have to come to this.
You would have to go back to 1994 to predate javascript. Javascript is not related to "hipsters" as that term has only recently come to popularity.
Nice troll, though. You got a lot of responses, and even a couple of mod points!
Jim Farley knows what John Hoeven is up to... http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1