What "additional traffic on the bus"? Between that outlandish claim and the claim that you have FIVE TIMES AS MANY POINTS OF FAILURE you sound like a FI[1].
You're projecting. Not every game is WoW, and besides that, your point has the least amount of validity for WoW than for any other game: Blizzard does not even pretend to encourage anyone to play a "tank" spec in PvP.
I'm mostly convinced now that/usr/bin/contextupload itself creates all of it. I could not find any reference to/var/context or contextupload in any of the jars in/usr/lib/luna/java, but I do see lots of relevant strings in the contextupload binary. Quick five-minute analysis follows. (strings output) libz.so.1 gzopen gzclose gzwrite gzerror * No reference to gzread -- makes me fairly certain it is doing compression and not decompression, i.e. archive creation. Creating/var/context failed Creating/var/context/pending failed luna://com.palm.location/getCurrentPosition {"accuracy":3,"maximumAge":86400} * That service call is what actually provides coordinates based on GPS, cell, etc. luna://com.palm.taskScheduler/scheduleTask {"uri":"luna://com.palm.contextupload/contextUploadTask", "repeatInterval": 86400000, "key": "contextUpload", "arguments":{}} * The scheduler service is probably the mechanic used here to actually make it upload periodically.
Have you tried tracking down the application that actually captures the GPS coordinates for the report int he first place? I'm guessing it's probably LunaSysMgr responsible for maintaining the entire thing. Thank you very much for reporting this. I will be very curious what additional information I can glean when I get home tonight and screw around with my Pre.
Sorry, but that is a convention, not a standard. There is also a long and storied convention that opposes that one: devices emulate other devices to facilitate interoperability. You may be familiar with, say, the IBM Compatihle BIOS. Implementing a device interface faithfully is only a standards violation in your twisted logic, mate.
You buy the Apple products because you LIKE the Apple products, and you LIKE the way they work together.
Now PalmPre starts syncing with iTunes, but doesn't sync right. That will look bad on Apple. Let's say the PalmPre somehow effs up your library. That will look bad on Apple. Sure, Apple can say 'we don't support the Pre' but if you're music library is hosed you're going to be mad at Apple.
You really should bother to do some trivial research to see what an iPod actually does when connected to iTunes. Here's your first clue: iPods appear as external hard drives when connected, and ONLY as a "mass storage device". Can you now guess exactly how much manipulation an "iPod-like device" does to iTunes? Make sure to also bear in mind the amount of headache that you would have by allowing both the iPod and the computer to be doing read/write access to it by direct filesystem manipulation -- there's a good reason that computers don't generally share storage without some kind of network protocol negotiating access.
It's quite telling that Palm has such low confidence in its ability to provide a quality solution of their own (Palm Desktop) that they feel they have to resort to that kludge in the first place.
They have decided that a kludgy, constantly breaking, USB standards violating solution is superior to anything they could cook up in house.
Reading your trolling obviates how entirely out of touch with reality you are. Palm Desktop is not at all relevant to the Palm Pre. The iTunes synchronization ability is not a kluge because nothing breaks it other than intentional potshots by Apple. Also, how the hell did you convince yourself that there are any standards being violated?
You are being intentionally quite obtuse. Enabling the device to allow iTunes to maintain a database and media files on it is actually the easiest way to accomplish music synching. It's actually very elegant.
I feel compelled to repeat the old adage, "Linux is only free if your time is free." That is not to say that time spent learning Unix is in any way wasted, but it absolutely costs you time in your life you can never get back.
for doing it right and not using GPLv3 just because it's newer! It is useless to have open source software available for your use if its license is fundamentally incompatible with your business. Of course, it would be even nicer if they released software under an even freer license i.e. BSD or similar, but I think the only thing preventing that is those licenses not having the buzzwordiness of GPL.
I would rather like to see how well the independent game producers are doing in comparison. I've only played two big studio computer games in the last year: Mirror's Edge and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. In comparison, I play independent games moreso. Braid, Dyson, Plants vs Zombies and Trine have provided me a lot of entertainment lately and the most expensive among them is only $30.
I don't see how average coverage is useful except for people that spend all their time traveling -- which is not terribly common in terms of cell phone users, now ks it?
In any case, I have Sprint now (with a Pre) and I consistently get T1 speeds in both directions in the DC area. It absolutely destroys the speed of both my DSL at home and leased line at work, unfortunately...
This isn't an either/or situation. Eating and exercising are *both* necessary, but for me, most of the weight loss was due to diet and not the exercise. As I pointed out, I ran 30 miles a week for two years, and had 1/2 the weight loss I did in 6 months of eating right and weightlifting twice a week.
You are what you eat. Seriously.
I didn't say "weight loss," I said "fit." If you want to be skinny, eat little. If you want to be fit, exercise. Fitness isn't a number that you see on a scale; it is your body's ability to perform within reasonable athletic parameters. You can't have that with a sedentary lifestyle regardless of what you consume.
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Those poor saps stuck on Verizon can use a Palm Pre, actually.
What "additional traffic on the bus"? Between that outlandish claim and the claim that you have FIVE TIMES AS MANY POINTS OF FAILURE you sound like a FI[1].
[1] I bet even you can guess this one.
You're projecting. Not every game is WoW, and besides that, your point has the least amount of validity for WoW than for any other game: Blizzard does not even pretend to encourage anyone to play a "tank" spec in PvP.
Ah, the irony. You profess others do not know of "value" and yet bought a new Miata for MSRP?
I'm mostly convinced now that /usr/bin/contextupload itself creates all of it. I could not find any reference to /var/context or contextupload in any of the jars in /usr/lib/luna/java, but I do see lots of relevant strings in the contextupload binary. Quick five-minute analysis follows. /var/context failed /var/context/pending failed
(strings output)
libz.so.1
gzopen
gzclose
gzwrite
gzerror
* No reference to gzread -- makes me fairly certain it is doing compression and not decompression, i.e. archive creation.
Creating
Creating
luna://com.palm.location/getCurrentPosition
{"accuracy":3,"maximumAge":86400}
* That service call is what actually provides coordinates based on GPS, cell, etc.
luna://com.palm.taskScheduler/scheduleTask
{"uri":"luna://com.palm.contextupload/contextUploadTask", "repeatInterval": 86400000, "key": "contextUpload", "arguments":{}}
* The scheduler service is probably the mechanic used here to actually make it upload periodically.
Have you tried tracking down the application that actually captures the GPS coordinates for the report int he first place? I'm guessing it's probably LunaSysMgr responsible for maintaining the entire thing. Thank you very much for reporting this. I will be very curious what additional information I can glean when I get home tonight and screw around with my Pre.
PS Nice uid ;D
There's no reason to purposefully use a mid-1990s graphics card. Thanks for wasting everyone's time with your post.
Sorry, but I don't think you know what you're talking about. Are you confusing esoteric hardware with common hardware?
Sorry, but that is a convention, not a standard. There is also a long and storied convention that opposes that one: devices emulate other devices to facilitate interoperability. You may be familiar with, say, the IBM Compatihle BIOS. Implementing a device interface faithfully is only a standards violation in your twisted logic, mate.
There is no "protocol" here. iPods are "USB mass storage devices" with FAT or HFS+ filesystems on them, and that is how iTunes operates them.
Firmware updates occur through manual intervention of the user....
Then they'll start using USB Vendor ID's. That would take more than just a software update, wouldn't it?
No. The USB protocol is mostly not implemented in the hardware on the Linux-running Palm Pre. It is handled by kernel drivers.
You buy the Apple products because you LIKE the Apple products, and you LIKE the way they work together.
Now PalmPre starts syncing with iTunes, but doesn't sync right. That will look bad on Apple. Let's say the PalmPre somehow effs up your library. That will look bad on Apple. Sure, Apple can say 'we don't support the Pre' but if you're music library is hosed you're going to be mad at Apple.
You really should bother to do some trivial research to see what an iPod actually does when connected to iTunes. Here's your first clue: iPods appear as external hard drives when connected, and ONLY as a "mass storage device". Can you now guess exactly how much manipulation an "iPod-like device" does to iTunes? Make sure to also bear in mind the amount of headache that you would have by allowing both the iPod and the computer to be doing read/write access to it by direct filesystem manipulation -- there's a good reason that computers don't generally share storage without some kind of network protocol negotiating access.
Well?
It's quite telling that Palm has such low confidence in its ability to provide a quality solution of their own (Palm Desktop) that they feel they have to resort to that kludge in the first place.
They have decided that a kludgy, constantly breaking, USB standards violating solution is superior to anything they could cook up in house.
Reading your trolling obviates how entirely out of touch with reality you are. Palm Desktop is not at all relevant to the Palm Pre. The iTunes synchronization ability is not a kluge because nothing breaks it other than intentional potshots by Apple. Also, how the hell did you convince yourself that there are any standards being violated?
You are being intentionally quite obtuse. Enabling the device to allow iTunes to maintain a database and media files on it is actually the easiest way to accomplish music synching. It's actually very elegant.
I feel compelled to repeat the old adage, "Linux is only free if your time is free." That is not to say that time spent learning Unix is in any way wasted, but it absolutely costs you time in your life you can never get back.
Yes. I already learned how Windows 7 fails at "upgrading" from Beta to RC so it will be even easier next time.
Your hardware has probably gone bad. Occam's Razor.
You mean it might convince non-geeks to run something other than a free Unix at home?
Egads!
for doing it right and not using GPLv3 just because it's newer! It is useless to have open source software available for your use if its license is fundamentally incompatible with your business. Of course, it would be even nicer if they released software under an even freer license i.e. BSD or similar, but I think the only thing preventing that is those licenses not having the buzzwordiness of GPL.
I would rather like to see how well the independent game producers are doing in comparison. I've only played two big studio computer games in the last year: Mirror's Edge and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. In comparison, I play independent games moreso. Braid, Dyson, Plants vs Zombies and Trine have provided me a lot of entertainment lately and the most expensive among them is only $30.
Cyanobacteria has some similarities with algae, but it is not algae.
It actually can be quite toxic, to boot. This doesn't seem all that ecologically-minded to me....
I don't see how average coverage is useful except for people that spend all their time traveling -- which is not terribly common in terms of cell phone users, now ks it?
In any case, I have Sprint now (with a Pre) and I consistently get T1 speeds in both directions in the DC area. It absolutely destroys the speed of both my DSL at home and leased line at work, unfortunately...
This isn't an either/or situation. Eating and exercising are *both* necessary, but for me, most of the weight loss was due to diet and not the exercise. As I pointed out, I ran 30 miles a week for two years, and had 1/2 the weight loss I did in 6 months of eating right and weightlifting twice a week.
You are what you eat. Seriously.
I didn't say "weight loss," I said "fit." If you want to be skinny, eat little. If you want to be fit, exercise. Fitness isn't a number that you see on a scale; it is your body's ability to perform within reasonable athletic parameters. You can't have that with a sedentary lifestyle regardless of what you consume.
That's an awful lot of sacrifices to result in being skinny but not fit in the end. If you don't do actual exercise, you can't be fit. End of story.