You seem to have some misunderstandings about the expected state of the software, and you're conflating software & hardware issues.
I know internal tests have indicated a week of battery life is possible when the Freerunner is suspended.
I'm pretty sure you're using a Nokia compatible headset instead of the Motorola compatible one that the FR plug actually matches.
See previous - you do only get one audio channel on a Nokia compatible headset if you use it in a Motorola compatible plug. They *did* remove one external speaker in the switch from the developer's Neo to the Freerunner, but the headset is stereo.
See previous.
The software support for bluetooth headsets is not there yet, but it is well known that the software is nowhere near complete.
The neo supports *full* bluetooth. The software platform you're running may not have bt keyboard support, but I know e.g. the GTK software stack supports it.
There are known graphics issues, which will probably only allow video playback of mpeg4 format in 320x200 at reasonable (20+) framerates. I haven't heard of general issues with normal GUI use.
That GPS fix time was an issue early on, and still isn't as good as it could be, but I thought the production Freerunners had < 1 minute TTFF if you're stationary & outdoors...
I chat with Mickey Laurer and Raster (and other OpenMoko developers) fairly often on freenode #openmoko, and I have yet to hear anyone issue anything other than the normal low-grade grousing that you'll hear about anyone.
The ASU is currently a piece of crap, and is mostly reinventing the wheel from the mostly working GTK release. Don't use it; use Qtopia for now.
The software is absolutely not ready for production, and no one is saying it is. I do think the new architecture at freesmartphone.org is going in the right direction, and it sounds as if it already supports stable calling.
Many of the interesting advances where made in the kilobyte and megabyte eras. It seems the gigabyte and terabyte eras have barely made a dent in progress.
Uh, for a huge variety of questions, I type keywords into Google and the answer comes back immediately. How is that *not* a vast dvance in AI, that came in the gigabyte & terabyte era?
* Hide details that client code doesn't care about * Expose details that client code does care about * Consider building everything as event driven state machines * For distributed processes, read http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/time-clocks.pdf * WRITE TESTS FIRST * No, I really mean it. WRITE TESTS *BEFORE* YOU WRITE "REAL" CODE. * Design for the known specifications, only design to support expected spec changes if you're sure those particular spec changes will happen * Break down the system into units cohesive within themselves, but not cohesive with other units. (Duh)
The new Options thing that remembers the last time you posted w/o your karma bonus (and doesn't indicate to you that you are posting again w/o your karma bonus) SUCKS!
Here is the issue: If you assume, as you do, that the photon has some predetermined phase A (for angle), then the likelihood of it passing through a filter at another angle B is cos(A-B) * cos(A-B). Experiments testing this by passing photons through a filter at angle A (all photons that make it through have phase A) and measuring how many make it through a filter at angle B confirm it.
BUT, if the photon had an initial angle A, and Alice and Bob both have filters at the same angle B, EVERY TIME the photon with either pass through BOTH Alice and Bob's filter, or NEITHER Alice nor Bob's filter. That can't be explained by your classical model. It can only be explained by "spooky action at a distance".
(It can also be explained by assuming that the universe splits into two cases, one where the photon passes through both filters, and one where it passes through neither, and some mechanism that prevents communication between the universes. This is the many-worlds or relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics, discovered by Hugh Everett in 1957 but unpopular until many years later.)
IHA14YOBSIPBIANAP.
(I have a 14 year old BS in Physics, but I am not a physicist).
I actually think I may know what I did wrong. In the old system, you checked a non-persistent box on each comment that you wanted to be posted w/o a bonus. Now there's an options button, which pops up a div to let you set your options. I foolishly assumed that those options worked the way the old ones did, but now I'm guessing at some point I posted a comment and turned off the karma bonus, and didn't know to turn it back on.
'No karma bonus' was checked in my preferences. I don't think I've ever seen that preference before, and I haven't played with my preferences in ages, so I'm gonna plead innocent.
This is the first comment I've made since I turned the flag off. If it's a 2, I'm back in action.
I think you should try a different browser to view the ratings breakdown. Also, you could revert to the old view; it's in the preferences somewhere. The ratings link uses javascript to dim the rest of the page and pop up a div with the ratings breakdown in it; I'm guessing your browser doesn't support that js or you have a plugin or option that disables it.
Yep, I see you as posting at 4. The breakdown shows +2 friend bonus (which I set up in my settings), base post of 1, and +1 karma bonus.
I'll check now how you look if I unfriend you...
I still see you as having a starting score of 1 and a karma bonus of +1, with a total score of 2.
Wow, looking at your recent comment history (http://slashdot.org/~religious+freak) I would almost accuse you of messing with me:-) I only see three posts that don't have the karma bonus. You look too sincere (and you changed your sig) for me to really believe that you're joking, though.
I disagree with the rest of your post, too, but the case against those points is pretty effectively made by other replies already.
Nothing done today prevents anyone from getting a weapon on board. The current security measures might stop someone who makes a half-hearted attempt, with no preparation, to get a weapon on board, but those aren't the threat.
Anyone with half a brain can shave their leg and duct tape an obsidian knife to it. Or fit a knife into complementary shaped plate and put it in their laptop.
If liquids are really dangerous to bring on board a plane, they're dangerous no matter who brings them on board, whether they have easily faked paperwork indicating a medical reason to need it or not.
The only effect of the "security measures" we have in place now are to make people who haven't thought it through *feel* safer, and to make everyone a little more used to letting authority figures search them and tell them what to do, regardless of whether they have any probable cause.
Secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, my ass.
I didn't think it was possible to start off as a '3'. A regular post by a friend w/no karma bonus shows up as a 3, but that wouldn't show you a three for your own posts, just your friends' posts.
As far as I know, a post by anyone with a karma bonus starts off as a 2. (the karma bonus is only +1). I give a +2 bonus to friends' posts. Your posts now look just like the posts of anyone else with a karma bonus.
Mine still start at 1.:-(
Your posts before I made you a friend showed a 1 rating to me. It's possible that there is a bug, though, and making you my friend hid the bug from me. What does the rating breakdown on my posts look like? (I.e. what do you see when you click the 'score' link on this post?)
By the way, I seem to get just as many mod points, or more... (I seem to get them in batches of 10 or 15 at a time now, but that started before my bonus went away).
Regarding converting sun's energy to food: I was referring to our genetically engineered (by artificial selection) plants with nitrogen fertilizer. Admittedly. nature is doing the heavy lifting there, so it probably doesn't belong.
Regarding "Survive a variety of harsh environments: not even close. Nature has us beat, hands down. Just look at extremophiles.":
Extremophiles are very good at surviving in *one* extreme environment, not a variety.
However, there certainly are living things that can survive a range of harsh environments better than us (bacteria that encyst, etc.). So really on this point I agree, which is why I put in the caveat of "comparable animal". I don't know of any complex multicellular life that can survive in the range of harsh environments that we do.
Regarding heating & cooling our environment: Yes, they do. We do it much better. (Freezers, controlled fire & electrical heating.)
Regarding simulation:
For some things, the simulation nature does in our head is much better than anything humans can produce technologically. For other things, the simulations we can do on computer is much better than anything we can do in our heads. I concede you the win on that one, but I don't think it's nearly as one-sided as you indicate.
What the hell happened to my mod bonus? My karma still shows Excellent, but my posts come out at '1'. There's no checkbox to turn off mod bonus, either.
I agree that melting the planet into grey goo is unlikely to happen on any short scale in the forseeable future.
In terms of what we do that is better than nature: * reproducing sound & video * travel long distances * travel at great speeds * convert sunlight, air & water into calories (nitrogen fertilizer; caveat: we use semi-natural plants to do it) * blow shit up * survive a variety of harsh environments (cold, heat, vacuum, high pressure) * build shelter
And some things we do that afaik nature (at least, other living things) just doesn't do: * produce massive energy densities (fission & fusion) * heat & cool our environments (really probably belongs under "harsh environments", above) * simulation
Of course, since man and his technologies are really part of the natural world, this gets ambiguous - by "doing it better than nature", I mean doing it better than any other comparable animal does it with their technology & physiology.
The same way living things do, perhaps? Except that we can use creativity/simulation/analogy of other systems/examples from elsewhere in the natural world to improve it?
Just like every other engineering feat that man does that works like nature, only better and/or more serving our own interests.
I'm guessing now that you're referring to the big plastic box that the phone is in in the picture I linked to. I think you only get that if you buy the debug board. I don't have one, and I certainly don't carry it around...
BTW, I wonder wtf happened to my karma bonus? My karma still shows excellent, but I apparently lost my bonus a few days ago.
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You seem to have some misunderstandings about the expected state of the software, and you're conflating software & hardware issues.
The software is absolutely not ready for production, and no one is saying it is. I do think the new architecture at freesmartphone.org is going in the right direction, and it sounds as if it already supports stable calling.
Uh, for a huge variety of questions, I type keywords into Google and the answer comes back immediately. How is that *not* a vast dvance in AI, that came in the gigabyte & terabyte era?
* Hide details that client code doesn't care about
* Expose details that client code does care about
* Consider building everything as event driven state machines
* For distributed processes, read http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
* WRITE TESTS FIRST
* No, I really mean it. WRITE TESTS *BEFORE* YOU WRITE "REAL" CODE.
* Design for the known specifications, only design to support expected spec changes if you're sure those particular spec changes will happen
* Break down the system into units cohesive within themselves, but not cohesive with other units. (Duh)
That's it, off the top of my head.
The new Options thing that remembers the last time you posted w/o your karma bonus (and doesn't indicate to you that you are posting again w/o your karma bonus) SUCKS!
You have missed something fundamental.
Here is the issue:
If you assume, as you do, that the photon has some predetermined phase A (for angle), then the likelihood of it passing through a filter at another angle B is cos(A-B) * cos(A-B). Experiments testing this by passing photons through a filter at angle A (all photons that make it through have phase A) and measuring how many make it through a filter at angle B confirm it.
BUT, if the photon had an initial angle A, and Alice and Bob both have filters at the same angle B, EVERY TIME the photon with either pass through BOTH Alice and Bob's filter, or NEITHER Alice nor Bob's filter. That can't be explained by your classical model. It can only be explained by "spooky action at a distance".
(It can also be explained by assuming that the universe splits into two cases, one where the photon passes through both filters, and one where it passes through neither, and some mechanism that prevents communication between the universes. This is the many-worlds or relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics, discovered by Hugh Everett in 1957 but unpopular until many years later.)
IHA14YOBSIPBIANAP.
(I have a 14 year old BS in Physics, but I am not a physicist).
I'm gonna be so disappointed if this doesn't end up with a single digit user responding.
Argh! I hate it when I make mistakes!
s/questions/question/, of course.
It's nice of you to let the guy who signed up after you slide!
Are six digit users allowed to questions someone using that meme?
Yes, yes I am.
$a='01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011';
@charsBinary = split(' ', $a);
foreach $charBin (@charsBinary)
{
$num = 0;
for $d (split('', $charBin))
{
$num = $num * 2;
$num += 1 if $d eq '1';
}
print chr($num);
}
Hooray!
I actually think I may know what I did wrong. In the old system, you checked a non-persistent box on each comment that you wanted to be posted w/o a bonus. Now there's an options button, which pops up a div to let you set your options. I foolishly assumed that those options worked the way the old ones did, but now I'm guessing at some point I posted a comment and turned off the karma bonus, and didn't know to turn it back on.
Thanks again!
Hah!
'No karma bonus' was checked in my preferences. I don't think I've ever seen that preference before, and I haven't played with my preferences in ages, so I'm gonna plead innocent.
This is the first comment I've made since I turned the flag off. If it's a 2, I'm back in action.
Thanks!!!!
OK, thanks very much for letting me know what's going on with you. I'm glad you're not busted.
/.ing!
I also appreciate you continuing to look for aid for me.
Happy
I think you should try a different browser to view the ratings breakdown. Also, you could revert to the old view; it's in the preferences somewhere. The ratings link uses javascript to dim the rest of the page and pop up a div with the ratings breakdown in it; I'm guessing your browser doesn't support that js or you have a plugin or option that disables it.
:-) I only see three posts that don't have the karma bonus. You look too sincere (and you changed your sig) for me to really believe that you're joking, though.
Yep, I see you as posting at 4. The breakdown shows +2 friend bonus (which I set up in my settings), base post of 1, and +1 karma bonus.
I'll check now how you look if I unfriend you...
I still see you as having a starting score of 1 and a karma bonus of +1, with a total score of 2.
Wow, looking at your recent comment history (http://slashdot.org/~religious+freak) I would almost accuse you of messing with me
I disagree with the rest of your post, too, but the case against those points is pretty effectively made by other replies already.
Nothing done today prevents anyone from getting a weapon on board. The current security measures might stop someone who makes a half-hearted attempt, with no preparation, to get a weapon on board, but those aren't the threat.
Anyone with half a brain can shave their leg and duct tape an obsidian knife to it. Or fit a knife into complementary shaped plate and put it in their laptop.
If liquids are really dangerous to bring on board a plane, they're dangerous no matter who brings them on board, whether they have easily faked paperwork indicating a medical reason to need it or not.
The only effect of the "security measures" we have in place now are to make people who haven't thought it through *feel* safer, and to make everyone a little more used to letting authority figures search them and tell them what to do, regardless of whether they have any probable cause.
Secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, my ass.
I didn't think it was possible to start off as a '3'. A regular post by a friend w/no karma bonus shows up as a 3, but that wouldn't show you a three for your own posts, just your friends' posts.
:-(
As far as I know, a post by anyone with a karma bonus starts off as a 2. (the karma bonus is only +1). I give a +2 bonus to friends' posts. Your posts now look just like the posts of anyone else with a karma bonus.
Mine still start at 1.
Your posts before I made you a friend showed a 1 rating to me. It's possible that there is a bug, though, and making you my friend hid the bug from me. What does the rating breakdown on my posts look like? (I.e. what do you see when you click the 'score' link on this post?)
It looks as if you have been un-screwed. You show up as a 4: 1, +2 for friend bonus and +1 for karma bonus!
Congratulations!
By the way, I seem to get just as many mod points, or more... (I seem to get them in batches of 10 or 15 at a time now, but that started before my bonus went away).
Will do, thanks for letting me know I'm not all alone in this ;-)
Regarding converting sun's energy to food: I was referring to our genetically engineered (by artificial selection) plants with nitrogen fertilizer. Admittedly. nature is doing the heavy lifting there, so it probably doesn't belong.
Regarding "Survive a variety of harsh environments: not even close. Nature has us beat, hands down. Just look at extremophiles.":
Extremophiles are very good at surviving in *one* extreme environment, not a variety.
However, there certainly are living things that can survive a range of harsh environments better than us (bacteria that encyst, etc.). So really on this point I agree, which is why I put in the caveat of "comparable animal". I don't know of any complex multicellular life that can survive in the range of harsh environments that we do.
Regarding heating & cooling our environment: Yes, they do. We do it much better. (Freezers, controlled fire & electrical heating.)
Regarding simulation:
For some things, the simulation nature does in our head is much better than anything humans can produce technologically. For other things, the simulations we can do on computer is much better than anything we can do in our heads. I concede you the win on that one, but I don't think it's nearly as one-sided as you indicate.
What the hell happened to my mod bonus? My karma still shows Excellent, but my posts come out at '1'. There's no checkbox to turn off mod bonus, either.
I agree that melting the planet into grey goo is unlikely to happen on any short scale in the forseeable future.
In terms of what we do that is better than nature:
* reproducing sound & video
* travel long distances
* travel at great speeds
* convert sunlight, air & water into calories (nitrogen fertilizer; caveat: we use semi-natural plants to do it)
* blow shit up
* survive a variety of harsh environments (cold, heat, vacuum, high pressure)
* build shelter
And some things we do that afaik nature (at least, other living things) just doesn't do:
* produce massive energy densities (fission & fusion)
* heat & cool our environments (really probably belongs under "harsh environments", above)
* simulation
Of course, since man and his technologies are really part of the natural world, this gets ambiguous - by "doing it better than nature", I mean doing it better than any other comparable animal does it with their technology & physiology.
The same way living things do, perhaps? Except that we can use creativity/simulation/analogy of other systems/examples from elsewhere in the natural world to improve it?
Just like every other engineering feat that man does that works like nature, only better and/or more serving our own interests.
I'm guessing now that you're referring to the big plastic box that the phone is in in the picture I linked to. I think you only get that if you buy the debug board. I don't have one, and I certainly don't carry it around...
BTW, I wonder wtf happened to my karma bonus? My karma still shows excellent, but I apparently lost my bonus a few days ago.
Uh, I have the phone on my hip and the bt kbd in my pocket. What is the big pile of shit I'm carrying around?
The hardware list is all the stuff that the phone does, not a bunch of separate devices I'm carrying around...