I'd love to have it connected to the monitor of my desk and connect my slim-and-light laptop to it for gaming. Even more awesome would be the fact that one could have an enclosure and be able to even swap out the graphics card!
I've owned a Z3 compact for a year. Best phone I've ever had. Not because of the waterproofing but due to the awesome battery life and small (in today's terms) size. But that's just by my criteria.
As other owners of the line have noted above: yes I do use it while having a bath, and I casually wash it off under tap water. Never taken it to a pool, though it has been submerged in the bathtub (though the depth would be something like 10cm). Would I try to take an underwater photo? Yes, I wouldn't think twice about it. It is possible to access the camera and shoot merely through tapping the screen. Would I use the fast-shoot button though? Probably not, I'd avoid any mechanical moving part underwater.
The USB flap is the most annoying thing on the phone. I _NEVER_ use it. I bought the magnetic cable that sticks to the side of the phone where the two charging pins are in my first week of having the phone. There is a second flap where the mini-SD card plugs, which I assume is still there, though I doubt anyone would need to use it often (as opposed to the USB port which is used for charging). I'm 100% certain that if you open this port daily it will gradually wear (it's mad of rubber I think) and lose its effectiveness.
In short, I think that the phone will do everything that is claimed in the ad, as long as it's used properly (don't forget the flap open) and it is new (flap won't help after X number of open/close cycles). So, the catch is that normal wear and tear (i.e. using the USB port flap every other day for charging) will probably break its waterproof ability.
It sucks, but they seem to have fixed it in the Z5 compact (thinking of buying it) which has a flap-less USB port that is waterproof. And even the current model has ways around it (the magnetic charging cable I mentioned, or a dock, combined with transferring files via WLAN rather than attaching it to your computer with USB).
I agree that they're not "good" on guerilla/urban/CT stuff. Like you said, nobody can really win without being bad themselves.
But how can you say they're still good on conventional warfare? They certainly used to be, but recently (i.e. post-Vietnam) I can't say they've ever been tested against an organized and relatively modern military. Iraq? The Taliban in Afghanistan?
The closest they came were in Serbia. They didn't do too well there; rather preferred bombing mostly from Italian bases. They simply would not dare ground operations against such an organized and recently-tested (wars with Croatia) military.
I'm not saying they aren't. I'm just saying they won't do conventional warfare anymore...
This study seems to verify the obvious: you will use more power no mater what, if you have less daylight per day.
But does this mean that DST is useless? I don't know, but I'd say that one can not judge that based on a simple comparison of power consumption during DST and non-DST periods.
To see if DST does save power (and how much), you must compare it with what we would have consumed if DST were not in effect.
For example, in Greece (where I live), during mid-summer, it gets dark after 20:00. During the winter, even with DST, it gets dark as soon as 18:00. That's a whole 2 hours of more dark per day! Even with DST, I think it's normal we'd consume more power.
Now, had we not used DST, it'd get dark as soon as 17:00. That would be 3 hours less daylight per day. I bet we'd use even more power had DST not been in effect.
Also, how does the study compensate for the increased power demand for heating (spaces, water, etc)?
In short, make sure they're not comparing apples to oranges...
The attack is believe to have occurred as the weather satellite flew at 530 mi. altitude 4 deg. west of Xichang located in Sichuan province.
Emphasis added by me.
I don't see how the Chinese shooting down one of their own sattelites is an attack, but at the end of the day, I guess that's all we need to remember out of all this: the Chinese attacked!
P.S. The "...is believed to have..." error exists in the original article. I left it there as a reminder of its quality.
Yeah, Linus is right: "...at the end of the day, I don't think it really matters that much."
Why? Because all DRM will eventually be circumvented. Look at DVD, HD-DVD and (soon would be my guess) Blue-Ray. Even on Windows and Mac OSX, with Microsoft's / Apple's blessed and fully supported state-of-the-art DRM solutions, people will come up with ways to achieve what is rational: fair use. So yeah, develop away. Stuff as much DRM as you want in Linux as well. At the end of the day, I'll still want to be able to use media like I use CDs and DVDs nowadays. The industry doesn't get it, but people want / need it, so it will happen.
Let me get this straight. The developers have realized that the time frame to the 2.0 release is not enough to iron out the several bugs related to the UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT bookmarks and history storage system and decide to give themselves more time on this by leaving it out for the next release... and that is a bad thing?
Can anyone say: Whooops! Firefox has lost my bookmarks!
I was unaware of this. What you say is a good reason... but it turns out it has nothing to do with licensing!
Any project that employs this copyright transfer strategy would prevent people from contributing to it. Regardless of what license the project then releases its product under.
The poster suggests that the reason why Abiword can accept donations from all those GPL'ed projects is because Abiword itself is GPL'ed... I insist that he is trolling...
...mod me flamebait, but I can't help myself. So, what's happening here is that:
The submitter praises GNOME's premier word processor in that it can surpass OpenOffice.org because it is GPL'ed, whereas the inflexible LGPL license of OpenOffice.org cripples development.
And what license is it that GNOME's distributed under?
Anyways, I don't get why the licensing issue was brought up, but let me state my congrats to the Abiword, GNOME and OpenOffice.org teams for their good work!
Maybe this thing takes one video input of 2560x1024 resolution and displays it across the two screens? (i.e. no need for two video cards / one dual-head card)?
If it doesn't, I agree with you that it's more like a huge waste of money. Oh well, I guess we'll never know... Nobody on/. will RTFA!;-)
I'm wondering if this applies just to desktop PC software, or any kind of software. For example, what about Cisco IOS? Do goverment networks have to run Chinese-manufacture routers only?
Come to think of it, software can exist in cars, aeroplanes and basically... whatever! Do the Chinese plan to enforce this everywhere? No more Mercedes for their officials?:-)
The LSB will begin providing certain standards as optional modules to the core LSB standard that will enable standards flexibility and allow for a wider variety of standards...
Upon first reading the above I almost laughed. What good are standards if they are flexible and come in great variety? Then I did what no other self-respecting slashdotter would dare to do: I started RTFAing...
What these guys are saying is we should have different standards for different types of machines (e.g. Servers vs Desktops) which are based on a common denominator. Therefore the addons to the standard may go into greater detail for that type of usage.
I guess they want to make the standard stronger in some directions, while at the same time not encumbering types of distros which need not concern themselves with the gory details of something they don't include. I guess that sounds reasonable...
MS would have to compete on merits, not on their monopoly, from now on. That doesn't sound something MS would want to do.
Yes indeed. But think about it: do they really have a choice?
Since governments are requiring use of open standards, it seems only reasonable that they would be forced to do that. Every corporation has transactions with government(s), so they would be forced to either support some other office format, or open up their own. Of the two options, opening up their own format is the smarter one: given their current dominance it is more likely that other office suites will employ it for reasons of compatibility, which removes the stress and cost of adding support for an open format from MS. In addition, MS can keep developing its format and let others play catch-up every time it rolls out some new version of it.
You should not forget the IRS. Probably, this money is exempt from taxes. In Greece, a person like Gates would probably be in the 40% taxing scale, which means that he would have to give almost half of that amount to the IRS (had he not donated it). So, to him, it's probably more like a donation in the range of $400M (depending on what the US system is).
Other than that, yes it's always a generous gesture to donate. But donating is giving directly back to society instead of funding your government to do it for you (intermediaries always hold something for themselves).
I've just updated the entry with a little bit of useful information to potential "slashvertising" companies: you'd better be prepared to get/.'ed when you're running your ad!
BTW, I think we've managed to/. the Wikipedia... That sucks...
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That may be so, but I was just trying to be funny. No worries though, happens to me all the time...
Wow, really? AMD were already making Phenoms in 1071 AD? How did they manage to fall behind Intel then?
I myself can't even stand lugging one from the living room to the bedroom! Can't wait till there's a decent one of these:
http://www.kitguru.net/compone...
http://hexus.net/tech/news/per...
I'd love to have it connected to the monitor of my desk and connect my slim-and-light laptop to it for gaming. Even more awesome would be the fact that one could have an enclosure and be able to even swap out the graphics card!
I've owned a Z3 compact for a year. Best phone I've ever had. Not because of the waterproofing but due to the awesome battery life and small (in today's terms) size. But that's just by my criteria.
As other owners of the line have noted above: yes I do use it while having a bath, and I casually wash it off under tap water. Never taken it to a pool, though it has been submerged in the bathtub (though the depth would be something like 10cm). Would I try to take an underwater photo? Yes, I wouldn't think twice about it. It is possible to access the camera and shoot merely through tapping the screen. Would I use the fast-shoot button though? Probably not, I'd avoid any mechanical moving part underwater.
The USB flap is the most annoying thing on the phone. I _NEVER_ use it. I bought the magnetic cable that sticks to the side of the phone where the two charging pins are in my first week of having the phone. There is a second flap where the mini-SD card plugs, which I assume is still there, though I doubt anyone would need to use it often (as opposed to the USB port which is used for charging). I'm 100% certain that if you open this port daily it will gradually wear (it's mad of rubber I think) and lose its effectiveness.
In short, I think that the phone will do everything that is claimed in the ad, as long as it's used properly (don't forget the flap open) and it is new (flap won't help after X number of open/close cycles). So, the catch is that normal wear and tear (i.e. using the USB port flap every other day for charging) will probably break its waterproof ability.
It sucks, but they seem to have fixed it in the Z5 compact (thinking of buying it) which has a flap-less USB port that is waterproof. And even the current model has ways around it (the magnetic charging cable I mentioned, or a dock, combined with transferring files via WLAN rather than attaching it to your computer with USB).
2013 is *DEFINITELY* going to be the year of "Linux on the Desktop". Just wait...
But how can you say they're still good on conventional warfare? They certainly used to be, but recently (i.e. post-Vietnam) I can't say they've ever been tested against an organized and relatively modern military. Iraq? The Taliban in Afghanistan?
The closest they came were in Serbia. They didn't do too well there; rather preferred bombing mostly from Italian bases. They simply would not dare ground operations against such an organized and recently-tested (wars with Croatia) military.
I'm not saying they aren't. I'm just saying they won't do conventional warfare anymore...
This study seems to verify the obvious: you will use more power no mater what, if you have less daylight per day.
But does this mean that DST is useless? I don't know, but I'd say that one can not judge that based on a simple comparison of power consumption during DST and non-DST periods.
To see if DST does save power (and how much), you must compare it with what we would have consumed if DST were not in effect.
For example, in Greece (where I live), during mid-summer, it gets dark after 20:00. During the winter, even with DST, it gets dark as soon as 18:00. That's a whole 2 hours of more dark per day! Even with DST, I think it's normal we'd consume more power.
Now, had we not used DST, it'd get dark as soon as 17:00. That would be 3 hours less daylight per day. I bet we'd use even more power had DST not been in effect.
Also, how does the study compensate for the increased power demand for heating (spaces, water, etc)?
In short, make sure they're not comparing apples to oranges...
Emphasis added by me.
I don't see how the Chinese shooting down one of their own sattelites is an attack, but at the end of the day, I guess that's all we need to remember out of all this: the Chinese attacked!
P.S. The "...is believed to have..." error exists in the original article. I left it there as a reminder of its quality.
Yeah, Linus is right: "...at the end of the day, I don't think it really matters that much."
Why? Because all DRM will eventually be circumvented. Look at DVD, HD-DVD and (soon would be my guess) Blue-Ray. Even on Windows and Mac OSX, with Microsoft's / Apple's blessed and fully supported state-of-the-art DRM solutions, people will come up with ways to achieve what is rational: fair use. So yeah, develop away. Stuff as much DRM as you want in Linux as well. At the end of the day, I'll still want to be able to use media like I use CDs and DVDs nowadays. The industry doesn't get it, but people want / need it, so it will happen.
.Let me get this straight. The developers have realized that the time frame to the 2.0 release is not enough to iron out the several bugs related to the UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT bookmarks and history storage system and decide to give themselves more time on this by leaving it out for the next release... and that is a bad thing?
Can anyone say: Whooops! Firefox has lost my bookmarks!
Well then, Microsoft should patent their work-around so that others can't use it!
Don't you just love software patents? :-P
I was unaware of this. What you say is a good reason... but it turns out it has nothing to do with licensing!
Any project that employs this copyright transfer strategy would prevent people from contributing to it. Regardless of what license the project then releases its product under.
The poster suggests that the reason why Abiword can accept donations from all those GPL'ed projects is because Abiword itself is GPL'ed... I insist that he is trolling...
...mod me flamebait, but I can't help myself. So, what's happening here is that:
The submitter praises GNOME's premier word processor in that it can surpass OpenOffice.org because it is GPL'ed, whereas the inflexible LGPL license of OpenOffice.org cripples development.
And what license is it that GNOME's distributed under?
Anyways, I don't get why the licensing issue was brought up, but let me state my congrats to the Abiword, GNOME and OpenOffice.org teams for their good work!
People, Blender has a bug-tracker here. Knock yourselves out!
Maybe this thing takes one video input of 2560x1024 resolution and displays it across the two screens? (i.e. no need for two video cards / one dual-head card)?
If it doesn't, I agree with you that it's more like a huge waste of money. Oh well, I guess we'll never know... Nobody on /. will RTFA! ;-)
I'm wondering if this applies just to desktop PC software, or any kind of software. For example, what about Cisco IOS? Do goverment networks have to run Chinese-manufacture routers only?
Come to think of it, software can exist in cars, aeroplanes and basically... whatever! Do the Chinese plan to enforce this everywhere? No more Mercedes for their officials? :-)
first post!
So OASIS support in KOffice is almost there. The final 1.4 release is scheduled for mid-June (see the release schedule)
Hold your horses!!! I never said I read the article:
Of course, I never got to the end. See? I think I'm finally getting used to this place. Now, with a little bit more effort...
Upon first reading the above I almost laughed. What good are standards if they are flexible and come in great variety? Then I did what no other self-respecting slashdotter would dare to do: I started RTFAing...
What these guys are saying is we should have different standards for different types of machines (e.g. Servers vs Desktops) which are based on a common denominator. Therefore the addons to the standard may go into greater detail for that type of usage.
I guess they want to make the standard stronger in some directions, while at the same time not encumbering types of distros which need not concern themselves with the gory details of something they don't include. I guess that sounds reasonable...
Yes indeed. But think about it: do they really have a choice?
Since governments are requiring use of open standards, it seems only reasonable that they would be forced to do that. Every corporation has transactions with government(s), so they would be forced to either support some other office format, or open up their own. Of the two options, opening up their own format is the smarter one: given their current dominance it is more likely that other office suites will employ it for reasons of compatibility, which removes the stress and cost of adding support for an open format from MS. In addition, MS can keep developing its format and let others play catch-up every time it rolls out some new version of it.
You should not forget the IRS. Probably, this money is exempt from taxes. In Greece, a person like Gates would probably be in the 40% taxing scale, which means that he would have to give almost half of that amount to the IRS (had he not donated it). So, to him, it's probably more like a donation in the range of $400M (depending on what the US system is).
Other than that, yes it's always a generous gesture to donate. But donating is giving directly back to society instead of funding your government to do it for you (intermediaries always hold something for themselves).
Novell Linux Desktop. http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/
Which version people?
I've loaded the above URL at least 50 times in Konqueror 3.3 (not even 3.3.1) with no crashes.
Cool!
I've just updated the entry with a little bit of useful information to potential "slashvertising" companies: you'd better be prepared to get /.'ed when you're running your ad!
BTW, I think we've managed to /. the Wikipedia... That sucks...