Not yet. What hw and environment information is normally requested for cases like this? I'm guessing this also needs to go to fedora's bug tracker so it can be determined whether or not something that the distro maintainer can handle or if it needs to get passed further up the food chain.
For me, the sound seems to be 'sped up'. I can listen to a video or a music file on a different machine and it sounds fine. On the pulseaudio machine, it's about 1/4 of the way between 'normal' and 'Alvin and the Chimpmunks' mode. Prior to that, it would lag and hang up watching videos (youtube, vlc, etc).
except when it breaks use cases that just worked for years. The following 'feature' was quite annoying. I'll have to try this out at home. I sort of got it working, but it wasn't what was outlined here (I have NFI how, actually) - too bad it took 3 months to get a real answer. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505676
I like how at first the OP mentions that the Droid has the same hardware as the Pre and later in the post says that users aren't impressed with the Pre's hardware.
I have had no problems with the Pre's hardware other than where they put the USB port. The other people I know that have Pre's like them too and have had a few blackberry users mention that it's a cool phone. The iPhone users say it would fit in pockets better then their phone does and they like the multitasking. The Touchstone has been worth every penny.
That depends on the area. Data roaming is available in some areas and you can check Sprint's coverage maps to find out where they're located. I've used a data connection on my Pre in 'roam mode' several times when on trips. The catch is the contract specifies that Sprint can cancel your account for that phone if you consistently do too much of it.
That's true for a plain Pre. Out of the box, it has the options: Sprint only network and roam when Sprint isn't available. However, the people at webos-internals.org have created a 'roam only' patch that gives the user a 3rd option: roam on non-Sprint networks even if the Sprint network is available. There are lots of other patches that they've created for the device too. Many of which just enable features that Palm has commented out for some reason, others are additions to the javascript files to enable new functionality. IMHO, anyone that's on Slashdot who owns a Pre should check it out.
Why do most of the linux distros install pulse audio if most of the users hate it?
I haven't had a problem with linux sound from before the RH6.x days until I installed a version of Fedora with pulse audio. After tweaking the parameters so it doesn't freeze up or skip, now the audio is a slightly higher pitch (not quite as bad as an "Alvin and the Chipmunks" recording, but noticeable). There has got to be a redeeming feature to it, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
Maybe some people on Slashdot can't wait to get developing for the palm pre.
What's stopping them? The SDK can be downloaded for free and has been available for a while now and is available on Windows, OS X, and Linux. There are several open source apps, patches, tweaks, etc on the various WebOS enthusiast sites. No jail breaking required.
don't forget that mass immigrations started because we rich people weren't interested in doing the dirty jobs anymore.
Eliminate the dole programs and there will be plenty of people wanting to do the dirty jobs just like they did before the government offered them a way to get paid while sitting on their ass at home, doing nothing.
IIRC, Bjorn Borg was part of an ad campaign in Sweden encouraging residents to "Fuck for the future" and start having more kids, something that all of Europe needs to consider.
Why would you want to fuck up Scotland by importing poverty and a bunch of parasites that won't assimilate into your culture? The UK (& the rest of the EU & Western nations in general) needs to stop letting any asylum seekers in and start deporting the ones that they've taken in for the last 20 years or so. Whether or not one is allowed to immigrate should be determined on whether or not the skills one possesses is valuable to the country, not because of some sob story. IMHO, Japan has the only nation that is close to being sane on this topic.
I have some friends and relatives that aren't all that computer savvy and that's how they share pictures most of the time. Especially if some of them are out at a bar.
I think you're as delusional as the original guy that thought there was glory in IT. Software engineers receive the same sort of wrath as your "IT types" for things such as a design meeting the requirements - but it's not what the user wanted, project timelines slipping because that "elegant technical architecture" is taking more time that originally planned, bugs, etc. Whether a project has the time and money to "get it done right" depends on the business users and IT management. Not to mention that these types of jobs can also be outsourced.
It's an office job with air conditioning - at least most of the time.
It would be nice for there to be standards within IT, but I'm not sold on unions. The idea is good, but the rampant corruption that always seems to occur is not.
Not to mention having when you get to go on vacation, when you're on-call, choice of projects, promotions, etc determined by how long you've happened to stay employed with that company, not necessarily if you've actually good at your job. One of my brothers got in trouble at his union because his equipment inspections followed the manufacturer's safety guidelines but were too thorough compared to the slacker that did it before. Would people in IT want to be subject of "tall poppy syndrome"?
FWIW, not all plumbers or electricians are unionized. In some states they have to be in order to get a license, but others don't have that requirement. Also, unions aren't responsible for creating or enforcing the various building codes that you allude to. Some relatives are in unions because they have to be and the seniority pecking order that they have to put up with sounds maddening.
His application was the first for the device, but it was also probably the most flamed since it didn't allow decimal input and his response was: don't be a cheapskate and just round up.
IMHO, it's pop-culture obsession with "having fun" and disparaging anyone/anything that actually requires hard work. The cool careers are those that provide "money for nothing and chicks for free" and pop-culture was pushing that mindset long before Hanson or Gore were on the public stage.
3. Say goodbye to religion - I have no problem with any specific ideology but an organization whose very approach means ignoring point number 1 and some amount of point number 2 will have no place in a scientific society. Sorry.
That's one of the reasons why science is losing ground in parts of society. Why make enemies when you don't have to? Also, if you think about it, the time frame given in TFA when science was more popular was also when people where more religious. What's changed? IMHO, too many "science has all the answers, it shows blah..blah..blah, therefore God doesn't exist" types vs "science is a tool for exploring and explaining the world around us..it helps us figure out how God/Allah/whatever did it" - which is probably what TFA was alluding to in regards to the "New Atheists". There have been lots of religious scientists and I think Henry Eyring had a pretty good quote concerning science vs religion debate: "Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men."
universities do not care, because they have gone to a billing system where you pay the same to take the maximum credit hours possible, and the minimum to be considered full time
Hmm. I had to pay per credit hour at my college, but where they would get you would be all the various fees tacked on later.
They will also pretty much allow anyone with the money waving in their hands to enroll.
Or those that will make the school lots of money via the athletic department.
Science often suffers from this sort of cringe factor - "I'm a boring scientist, you probably don't want to talk to me".
Other people often come up to that conclusion on their own. I was talking to a woman in a bar once and it was going ok until she asked where I worked. After hearing my answer, her response was "Oh, you're too smart for me and I don't want to be bored. Bye".:(
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Not yet. What hw and environment information is normally requested for cases like this? I'm guessing this also needs to go to fedora's bug tracker so it can be determined whether or not something that the distro maintainer can handle or if it needs to get passed further up the food chain.
For me, the sound seems to be 'sped up'. I can listen to a video or a music file on a different machine and it sounds fine. On the pulseaudio machine, it's about 1/4 of the way between 'normal' and 'Alvin and the Chimpmunks' mode. Prior to that, it would lag and hang up watching videos (youtube, vlc, etc).
except when it breaks use cases that just worked for years. The following 'feature' was quite annoying. I'll have to try this out at home. I sort of got it working, but it wasn't what was outlined here (I have NFI how, actually) - too bad it took 3 months to get a real answer. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505676
I have had no problems with the Pre's hardware other than where they put the USB port. The other people I know that have Pre's like them too and have had a few blackberry users mention that it's a cool phone. The iPhone users say it would fit in pockets better then their phone does and they like the multitasking. The Touchstone has been worth every penny.
I haven't noticed that with the one that I've had since June. What are you doing with your phone to make it flex?
That depends on the area. Data roaming is available in some areas and you can check Sprint's coverage maps to find out where they're located. I've used a data connection on my Pre in 'roam mode' several times when on trips. The catch is the contract specifies that Sprint can cancel your account for that phone if you consistently do too much of it.
That's true for a plain Pre. Out of the box, it has the options: Sprint only network and roam when Sprint isn't available. However, the people at webos-internals.org have created a 'roam only' patch that gives the user a 3rd option: roam on non-Sprint networks even if the Sprint network is available. There are lots of other patches that they've created for the device too. Many of which just enable features that Palm has commented out for some reason, others are additions to the javascript files to enable new functionality. IMHO, anyone that's on Slashdot who owns a Pre should check it out.
Why do most of the linux distros install pulse audio if most of the users hate it? I haven't had a problem with linux sound from before the RH6.x days until I installed a version of Fedora with pulse audio. After tweaking the parameters so it doesn't freeze up or skip, now the audio is a slightly higher pitch (not quite as bad as an "Alvin and the Chipmunks" recording, but noticeable). There has got to be a redeeming feature to it, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
What's stopping them? The SDK can be downloaded for free and has been available for a while now and is available on Windows, OS X, and Linux. There are several open source apps, patches, tweaks, etc on the various WebOS enthusiast sites. No jail breaking required.
I thought that the ethnic/cultural diversity is due to London being the capital of the former British Empire, not the other way around.
Eliminate the dole programs and there will be plenty of people wanting to do the dirty jobs just like they did before the government offered them a way to get paid while sitting on their ass at home, doing nothing.
That's just common sense and you know that won't be accepted by the politicians who the chavs keep voting in. Or on /. for that matter.
IIRC, Bjorn Borg was part of an ad campaign in Sweden encouraging residents to "Fuck for the future" and start having more kids, something that all of Europe needs to consider.
Why would you want to fuck up Scotland by importing poverty and a bunch of parasites that won't assimilate into your culture? The UK (& the rest of the EU & Western nations in general) needs to stop letting any asylum seekers in and start deporting the ones that they've taken in for the last 20 years or so. Whether or not one is allowed to immigrate should be determined on whether or not the skills one possesses is valuable to the country, not because of some sob story. IMHO, Japan has the only nation that is close to being sane on this topic.
I have some friends and relatives that aren't all that computer savvy and that's how they share pictures most of the time. Especially if some of them are out at a bar.
I think you're as delusional as the original guy that thought there was glory in IT. Software engineers receive the same sort of wrath as your "IT types" for things such as a design meeting the requirements - but it's not what the user wanted, project timelines slipping because that "elegant technical architecture" is taking more time that originally planned, bugs, etc. Whether a project has the time and money to "get it done right" depends on the business users and IT management. Not to mention that these types of jobs can also be outsourced.
It's an office job with air conditioning - at least most of the time.
Not to mention having when you get to go on vacation, when you're on-call, choice of projects, promotions, etc determined by how long you've happened to stay employed with that company, not necessarily if you've actually good at your job. One of my brothers got in trouble at his union because his equipment inspections followed the manufacturer's safety guidelines but were too thorough compared to the slacker that did it before. Would people in IT want to be subject of "tall poppy syndrome"?
FWIW, not all plumbers or electricians are unionized. In some states they have to be in order to get a license, but others don't have that requirement. Also, unions aren't responsible for creating or enforcing the various building codes that you allude to. Some relatives are in unions because they have to be and the seniority pecking order that they have to put up with sounds maddening.
His application was the first for the device, but it was also probably the most flamed since it didn't allow decimal input and his response was: don't be a cheapskate and just round up.
IMHO, it's pop-culture obsession with "having fun" and disparaging anyone/anything that actually requires hard work. The cool careers are those that provide "money for nothing and chicks for free" and pop-culture was pushing that mindset long before Hanson or Gore were on the public stage.
That's one of the reasons why science is losing ground in parts of society. Why make enemies when you don't have to? Also, if you think about it, the time frame given in TFA when science was more popular was also when people where more religious. What's changed? IMHO, too many "science has all the answers, it shows blah..blah..blah, therefore God doesn't exist" types vs "science is a tool for exploring and explaining the world around us..it helps us figure out how God/Allah/whatever did it" - which is probably what TFA was alluding to in regards to the "New Atheists". There have been lots of religious scientists and I think Henry Eyring had a pretty good quote concerning science vs religion debate: "Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men."
Hmm. I had to pay per credit hour at my college, but where they would get you would be all the various fees tacked on later.
Or those that will make the school lots of money via the athletic department.
Other people often come up to that conclusion on their own. I was talking to a woman in a bar once and it was going ok until she asked where I worked. After hearing my answer, her response was "Oh, you're too smart for me and I don't want to be bored. Bye". :(
Or something that only boring socially inept people are interested in.
so you don't have a problem with that?