Most modern built-in power converters and supplies can handle pretty much anything - if you look at the power brick for your computer, chances are it says "100-240V, 50-60Hz". It's expensive to run separate production lines, so companies have tried to make stuff as universal as possible.
And of course this is (partly) because Japan has both 50 and 60Hz. So all of us who can plug our portables anywhere in the world can say "thank you Japan"!
There are no proprietary kernel drivers in the N900. This means that it is possible to upgrade the kernel, if someone will have enough motivation and time for porting some things that are missing from mainline kernel.
Heinlein was, as usual, wrong. The principle of democracy is not that a million men are wiser than one. It is that a million men know what they want better than the one.
Adams was also wrong. People are not the problem. People are the solution.
I'd certainly make use of some of this... but I probably won't be able to unless someone backports it to 2.6.28 due to the damn proprietary graphics drivers.
They are in user space aren't they? AFAIK there is no closed code in the N900 kernel.
In a parliamentary system the government is formed by part of the parliament. The rest is the opposition. In the UK for example Labour is in the parliament. It is not part of the government.
But a "compound constitutional republic" is also a fair description of the PRC. If you can't see the difference between the US and the PRC you've got problems.
So, according to you no parliamentary system is a democracy?
A representative democracy is one where the representatives are elected. In your case those are the senators, representatives and electoral college members.
GPS is NOT a clock. It MAY include one, but that is not the main function of GPS, it is an aside issue. "yeah, we include realtime data in our GPS system".
GPS is a set of clocks in orbit. That's how it works. No clocks, no GPS.
So is Google Maps with WiFi/Cellular geolocation... GPS not working still sucks though.
And GPS isn't about maps... it's about knowing exactly where on that map you are.
RTFA - the cell towers go down if they can't sync their clocks.
And they use GPS to sync the clocks.
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I really don't understand why they didn't just dump Symbian for Android. They could have skinned it to look like Symbian
WTF!
The good bit of Symbian - uses orders of magnitude less resources that the competition.
The bad bit - the UI from hell.
And you suggest putting a Symbian UI on Android?
Like I said, WTF.
(Check out SBP mobile shell for Symbian to see what could have been done if Nokia weren't totally fucked up. Look at it running on a low-end piece of junk like the 5320 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZtKTOTus7s ).
Peer review seemed like a good idea at the time, but these days it increasingly seems to be a way for the most powerful clique to ensure their papers get published and no-one else does.
Citation needed.
Got a concrete example, or is this just something you've "heard"?
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Wooooosh.
And of course this is (partly) because Japan has both 50 and 60Hz. So all of us who can plug our portables anywhere in the world can say "thank you Japan"!
That's how it works in Europe too.
The so called "230" volts is 220 in mainland Europe and 240 in the UK. (Which is, of course, why Australia is on 240).
All post '80s (and the vast majority of pre '80s) equipment works anywhere from 200 too 255ish.
Reactor #3 is fueled with MOX, so yes, the plants with issues do use plutonium. Not that makes any difference.
Chuck Norris is a pussy.
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Heinlein was, as usual, wrong. The principle of democracy is not that a million men are wiser than one. It is that a million men know what they want better than the one.
Adams was also wrong. People are not the problem. People are the solution.
They are in user space aren't they? AFAIK there is no closed code in the N900 kernel.
All those things are still true.
Yes, it's a bummer that Nokia have screwed up, but the N900 is still the only game in town if you want to run Linux on a phone.
I.E. the answer is no.
In a parliamentary system the government is formed by part of the parliament. The rest is the opposition. In the UK for example Labour is in the parliament. It is not part of the government.
Wrong. Parliament != government.
Paranoid fool.
But a "compound constitutional republic" is also a fair description of the PRC. If you can't see the difference between the US and the PRC you've got problems.
AARGH!
You're both!
Didn't you do Venn diagrams at school?
So, according to you no parliamentary system is a democracy?
A representative democracy is one where the representatives are elected. In your case those are the senators, representatives and electoral college members.
In what strange universe is it impossible to be a democracy and a republic?
What feature of the US constitution makes it not a democracy?
Comes with open source OpenGL ES drivers?
up an immunity to iocane powder.
Ok if you want to use Google maps in Starbucks or MacDo.
Not so good on the road.
GPS is NOT a clock. It MAY include one, but that is not the main function of GPS,
it is an aside issue. "yeah, we include realtime data in our GPS system".
GPS is a set of clocks in orbit. That's how it works. No clocks, no GPS.
So is Google Maps with WiFi/Cellular geolocation... GPS not working still sucks though.
And GPS isn't about maps... it's about knowing exactly where on that map you are.
RTFA - the cell towers go down if they can't sync their clocks.
And they use GPS to sync the clocks.
WTF!
The good bit of Symbian - uses orders of magnitude less resources that the competition.
The bad bit - the UI from hell.
And you suggest putting a Symbian UI on Android?
Like I said, WTF.
(Check out SBP mobile shell for Symbian to see what could have been done if Nokia weren't totally fucked up. Look at it running on a low-end piece of junk like the 5320 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZtKTOTus7s ).
Citation needed.
Got a concrete example, or is this just something you've "heard"?
That's what I do.
Doesn't work reliably with multiple initiators. Two seems ok. more gives trouble. (Disk connected to two machines, and using multipath).
Been not "far away" for a couple of years now.