CyanogenMOD sometimes works... just try it. Seems like the devs simply forget to enable the option half the time. If you can go to a rooted terminal and "insmod loop", then you're probably fine to go through with the rest of the Debian/Ubuntu chroot install on your Android device.
They finally enabled it on one of the last builds of 7.1 for my HTC myTouch 3G. They don't have it on the first and only stable build of 9.1 for my HTC myTouch 4G. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a popular device (despite being one of the few sliding physical keyboard phones, and HTC making it easy for devs & power users to unlock their bootloaders). But maybe someday... I'm just glad someone working on CM decided to bother releasing a polished Android 4 ROM for a device designed for Gingerbread.
OK, it's chroot'd ARM Debian/Ubuntu on Android, but it works well enough for my purposes (well, except for my CyanogenMOD phones that don't have the loop device module compiled in for some silly reason:/ )
ha, don't take any offense... all political discourse (esp. on/. ) is trolling. That's what politics is. Achieve maximum trollage while inciting other people to waste their time responding to you when they could be doing much more positive and constructive things. Ach, now you've got me doing it! Troll!
Well, I at least have my wife trained to treat my time estimates as "no sooner than", and I don't have any trouble sticking to those commitments. Can't be that much harder to train your boss to have the same expectations.
Anyway, isn't most of Agile centered around coming up with time estimates formed from a consensus of team members who know you well?
They're a large and by now fairly traditional computer engineering firm. They are still top dog in many areas (Office, PC gaming & peripherals, and, oh yeah, the OS).
Yes, they are failing to pick up significant share in "emerging" markets. But their various spinoffs are doing great... for example Valve owns PC online gaming distribution. Which I suppose doesn't contribute to Microsoft's bottom line, but just goes to show that M$ engineers are capable of doing interesting things if they can cast off some of their management constraints.
So even if they don't always have enough time to do it right, they always seem to be able to have enough money to do it over: http://anongallery.org/5442/windows-8 Maybe the CFO quitting means a blow to that model. But I don't imagine we'll sustain this rapid pace of developing new "emerging" markets that M$ can't keep up with.
Yep, pretty much have cell phone congestion during any large crowd event, such as parades and concerts and demonstrations.
All it would really take is some sort of public education campaign to use SMS in those situations.
911 does take SMS nowadays, does it not? If not, I hear SMS to Twitter / Facebook has been useful for getting people to reach out to their friends for help, who can in turn call an emergency response number... somewhere.
Yeah, I think the commuterpult would be much more efficient and practical. I blame the sci-fi writers for failing to soften up public acceptance of that mode of transportation (the Robots cartoon notwithstanding)
Maybe his application is performance critical, and that's why the others in the domain have failed. I think performance / latency was always a priority with Google when they entered an already-crowded search engine space, and that was one of the main things that drew people to their service from the established competition.
Also sounds like he already has his prototype app working on 2 boxes, and doesn't want to pull an EA by launching with that. It's non-trivial to just scale out N instances if they all have to coordinate back to a few common bottleneck databases that don't scale.
The established scalability architecture I see a lot of these days looks like some sort of CDN in front of one or more datacenters each which consist of a load balancer (such as nginx) that spreads the load out between a dynamic pool of web/application servers (php / tomcat), which access a dynamic pool of cache storage (memcached / redis) in front of some kind of DB backend (mySQL with a few read replicas, or some other DB tuned for sustaining the max writes sanely enough to perform backup / restore on the entire persistent dataset)
Groupon is a pyramid scheme that isn't really sustainable.
I want to like Foursquare, but never really tried it because it sounds too social.
Yelp was great when it was included by default on Google Maps. Even if the reviews were inconsistent, I got great results from them.
I've been somewhat pissed since Google Maps Mobile started using Zagat. For their restaurant recommendations, Zagat puts way too much emphasis on appearance and 'chic', and not enough on food quality and novelty. So maybe they're a little more consistent, but I find myself having to consciously filter their ratings, like subtracting 5 points for Thai and Chinese and mainstream American, and adding a few points for any kind of obscure ethnic hole-in-the-wall.
I updated my wife's laptop from Windows Vista to 8 a few months ago while they still had the $40 upgrade offer.
Also, I put it on an SSD.
So now every time she complains to me about the Metro interface, I simply threaten to put her old HDD with Vista back in, and she gets quiet again. If that doesn't work, I threaten to put in my other SSD with Linux Mint:-D
Meh, laws don't necessarily have to be enforced, but they're convenient to have when you want to discourage particular behaviors.
Say one of those bad drivers runs over a baby carriage while texting. If there's no law against it, he can just go neener neener neener until you can get some court jury to nail him with something that will stick.
Now say you have a law against texting. Now when the guy runs over a baby carriage, you can slap him with the $140 fine as prescribed, and everyone can get on with their lives.
Americans didn't really lose squat. The bankers multiply money, and had inflated their value from a somewhat sustainable 15x multiplier to somewhere in the 30x range, thanks to the real estate bubble loans and other insurance gimmicks. Then that scheme fell flat, and they lost half their value on paper, bringing down the accounts of investors foolish enough to invest in those "safe" things. But that value never really existed anyway.
The only real crime was giving them real money to prop up their facade. It'll be interesting to see how long we can keep this up.
Netflix works pretty well on Android, just pick up a nice Tegra tablet with an HDMI output and you're all set.
Or just buy a used Windows laptop to run Netflix on. It's not like that box is ever going to be doing anything else, so it'll free up your nice PCs to run Linux and get actual work done.
Yeah, that sounds about right. The last time I read about this... somewhere... it really depended upon the size of the black hole.
Approaching a small black hole, the gradient in gravitational forces closer to the black hole means that e.g. diving head-first into a black hole would mean your head would feel a stronger gravitational pull than your feet and thus your body would be stretched and ripped apart.
Approaching a much more massive black hole with a larger event horizon could reduce that gravitation gradient enough. But of course you'll be much further from the singularity point as well.
Of course, both ignore the particle soup of other things falling into black holes that would surround most actual black holes.... which is what this article is considering. As well as the fact that it's pretty difficult to dive directly into a celestial object vs. falling into it via a gradually decaying orbit (which is what most of the particle soup is doing).
Also, someone say something about frame dragging effects near such large relativistically-moving amounts of mass.
I'm just a bit miffed that this was supposed to effectively be the dedicated engine to follow-up the DayZ mod to Arma II, which people and critics seemed to really enjoy for being hardcore, despite the limitations of using the Arma II engine?
So is it really that the original gameplay of the DayZ mod wasn't that great when it hit a "mainstream" title? Or is the WarZ engine just crap compared to Arma II?
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They said exactly what they could say to dispel any concerns that he might be a biased industry shill so they could assuage fears of the populace?
DIABOLICAL!
CyanogenMOD sometimes works... just try it. Seems like the devs simply forget to enable the option half the time. If you can go to a rooted terminal and "insmod loop", then you're probably fine to go through with the rest of the Debian/Ubuntu chroot install on your Android device.
They finally enabled it on one of the last builds of 7.1 for my HTC myTouch 3G. They don't have it on the first and only stable build of 9.1 for my HTC myTouch 4G. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a popular device (despite being one of the few sliding physical keyboard phones, and HTC making it easy for devs & power users to unlock their bootloaders). But maybe someday... I'm just glad someone working on CM decided to bother releasing a polished Android 4 ROM for a device designed for Gingerbread.
Maybe you're on the wrong mailing list?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid&hl=en
OK, it's chroot'd ARM Debian/Ubuntu on Android, but it works well enough for my purposes (well, except for my CyanogenMOD phones that don't have the loop device module compiled in for some silly reason :/ )
Awesome... I better head over to the http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/ this weekend and brush up on my skills
OK, well, have fun at ArsTechnica. But someday you'll be back... and you'll be browsing at -1 like the other diehards :-P
And who knows, maybe even someday you'll figure out how to appease our moderator overlords.
Actually, glancing at http://slashdot.org/~girlintraining/comments/ , you have a pretty decent record for getting upmodded.
ha, don't take any offense... all political discourse (esp. on /. ) is trolling. That's what politics is. Achieve maximum trollage while inciting other people to waste their time responding to you when they could be doing much more positive and constructive things. Ach, now you've got me doing it! Troll!
Well, I at least have my wife trained to treat my time estimates as "no sooner than", and I don't have any trouble sticking to those commitments. Can't be that much harder to train your boss to have the same expectations.
Anyway, isn't most of Agile centered around coming up with time estimates formed from a consensus of team members who know you well?
OK, so they're picture books. But the content is there, and is probably at a slightly higher level than middle school, but made clear and accessible.
David Macaulay "The Way Things Work" and such
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=David%20Macaulay
Larry Gonick "Cartoon Guide to ..."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Larry+Gonick&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ALarry+Gonick
Stephen Hawking has less pictures, but is surprisingly accessible
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Stephen+Hawking&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AStephen+Hawking
Also, Microsoft is on top of the heap:
http://www.appsrumors.com/news-rumors/what-happens-when-google-and-amazon-copy-apple-comic-magazine/
They're a large and by now fairly traditional computer engineering firm. They are still top dog in many areas (Office, PC gaming & peripherals, and, oh yeah, the OS).
Yes, they are failing to pick up significant share in "emerging" markets. But their various spinoffs are doing great... for example Valve owns PC online gaming distribution. Which I suppose doesn't contribute to Microsoft's bottom line, but just goes to show that M$ engineers are capable of doing interesting things if they can cast off some of their management constraints.
So even if they don't always have enough time to do it right, they always seem to be able to have enough money to do it over:
http://anongallery.org/5442/windows-8
Maybe the CFO quitting means a blow to that model. But I don't imagine we'll sustain this rapid pace of developing new "emerging" markets that M$ can't keep up with.
I dunno, I ran Picasa on my pr0n dir, and it gets all the Czech models mixed up all the time.
But I guess that just means the face recognition software is American...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/czech-republic-ambassador-dont-confuse-us-with-chechnya/
Pinpointing the suspect's what?
Oh wait, that's grammatically correct. It's a sad day when I start imagining /. grammar mistakes that aren't actually there.
Yep, pretty much have cell phone congestion during any large crowd event, such as parades and concerts and demonstrations.
All it would really take is some sort of public education campaign to use SMS in those situations.
911 does take SMS nowadays, does it not? If not, I hear SMS to Twitter / Facebook has been useful for getting people to reach out to their friends for help, who can in turn call an emergency response number... somewhere.
"Oh Pollux" - says some Brit constellation.
OK... Thppthpppthppth
Yeah, I think the commuterpult would be much more efficient and practical. I blame the sci-fi writers for failing to soften up public acceptance of that mode of transportation (the Robots cartoon notwithstanding)
I would simply have it administer a lethal dose of cyanide any time the user posts something stupid on the internets ;-)
Maybe his application is performance critical, and that's why the others in the domain have failed. I think performance / latency was always a priority with Google when they entered an already-crowded search engine space, and that was one of the main things that drew people to their service from the established competition.
Also sounds like he already has his prototype app working on 2 boxes, and doesn't want to pull an EA by launching with that. It's non-trivial to just scale out N instances if they all have to coordinate back to a few common bottleneck databases that don't scale.
The established scalability architecture I see a lot of these days looks like some sort of CDN in front of one or more datacenters each which consist of a load balancer (such as nginx) that spreads the load out between a dynamic pool of web/application servers (php / tomcat), which access a dynamic pool of cache storage (memcached / redis) in front of some kind of DB backend (mySQL with a few read replicas, or some other DB tuned for sustaining the max writes sanely enough to perform backup / restore on the entire persistent dataset)
Groupon is a pyramid scheme that isn't really sustainable.
I want to like Foursquare, but never really tried it because it sounds too social.
Yelp was great when it was included by default on Google Maps. Even if the reviews were inconsistent, I got great results from them.
I've been somewhat pissed since Google Maps Mobile started using Zagat. For their restaurant recommendations, Zagat puts way too much emphasis on appearance and 'chic', and not enough on food quality and novelty. So maybe they're a little more consistent, but I find myself having to consciously filter their ratings, like subtracting 5 points for Thai and Chinese and mainstream American, and adding a few points for any kind of obscure ethnic hole-in-the-wall.
This: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Cn_jem4ZT0/UPwLzBVwkjI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Wvi9jkuhH8M/s1600/Windows-life-cycle.png
I updated my wife's laptop from Windows Vista to 8 a few months ago while they still had the $40 upgrade offer.
Also, I put it on an SSD.
So now every time she complains to me about the Metro interface, I simply threaten to put her old HDD with Vista back in, and she gets quiet again. If that doesn't work, I threaten to put in my other SSD with Linux Mint :-D
Meh, laws don't necessarily have to be enforced, but they're convenient to have when you want to discourage particular behaviors.
Say one of those bad drivers runs over a baby carriage while texting. If there's no law against it, he can just go neener neener neener until you can get some court jury to nail him with something that will stick.
Now say you have a law against texting. Now when the guy runs over a baby carriage, you can slap him with the $140 fine as prescribed, and everyone can get on with their lives.
Americans didn't really lose squat. The bankers multiply money, and had inflated their value from a somewhat sustainable 15x multiplier to somewhere in the 30x range, thanks to the real estate bubble loans and other insurance gimmicks. Then that scheme fell flat, and they lost half their value on paper, bringing down the accounts of investors foolish enough to invest in those "safe" things. But that value never really existed anyway.
The only real crime was giving them real money to prop up their facade. It'll be interesting to see how long we can keep this up.
Crap! We're already TOO LATE!
https://www.google.com/search?q=coconut+crab
Bonus: they drop coconuts on your head before they jump down and eat.
Netflix works pretty well on Android, just pick up a nice Tegra tablet with an HDMI output and you're all set.
Or just buy a used Windows laptop to run Netflix on. It's not like that box is ever going to be doing anything else, so it'll free up your nice PCs to run Linux and get actual work done.
Yeah, that sounds about right. The last time I read about this... somewhere... it really depended upon the size of the black hole.
Approaching a small black hole, the gradient in gravitational forces closer to the black hole means that e.g. diving head-first into a black hole would mean your head would feel a stronger gravitational pull than your feet and thus your body would be stretched and ripped apart.
Approaching a much more massive black hole with a larger event horizon could reduce that gravitation gradient enough. But of course you'll be much further from the singularity point as well.
Of course, both ignore the particle soup of other things falling into black holes that would surround most actual black holes.... which is what this article is considering. As well as the fact that it's pretty difficult to dive directly into a celestial object vs. falling into it via a gradually decaying orbit (which is what most of the particle soup is doing).
Also, someone say something about frame dragging effects near such large relativistically-moving amounts of mass.
I'm just a bit miffed that this was supposed to effectively be the dedicated engine to follow-up the DayZ mod to Arma II, which people and critics seemed to really enjoy for being hardcore, despite the limitations of using the Arma II engine?
So is it really that the original gameplay of the DayZ mod wasn't that great when it hit a "mainstream" title? Or is the WarZ engine just crap compared to Arma II?