I have a Samsung Captivate, and I also experience this problem. Oddly enough, I experience similar problems with an Asus EEE netbook running Ubuntu 10.10, though maybe that isn't related, and the symptoms are just similar..
I hope this fix this ASAP. Maybe if everyone 'stars' the bug?
I don't know about the states, but Canada has wide adoption of contact-less credit cards*. In almost all the gas stations in my area, and many stores, I can simply hold up my wallet with my credit card in it to pay for things. No swiping necessary. This is a huge convenience IMO. I realize you may say "but how much work is it really to take the card out of your wallet, and swipe it?" Physically it's not a lot of extra effort, but the card readers often don't work the first time, and when you're freezing your ass off trying to put gas in the car, those extra seconds saved really help. And, not having to remove the card is also a plus.
Anyways, I think all of these future conveniences are just that anyways - small upgrades that we don't "need", but I guess we really have run out of things to innovate, so there it is.
*note - visa and mastercard mailed out cards with a chip and contact-less support about a year and a half ago, while this shift was occurring. At first I was upset, because having to remember another PIN for a credit card was annoying, but the lack of swipe made me happy.
I guess this is what I'm talking about. I have a B.Sc, I got it years ago, and here you are with your snarky response, judging me, as if I'm too stupid for the math (yes, it's implied with what you said). It's not that I can't learn it, as obviously I did, it's that it wasn't useful. But I guess if it helps validate people like you, it will never change, since it's a big circle-jerk in acadamia.
I don't get why I had to learn all the math in university. I agree some math is useful, but I have never in my 10 years working applied any of the advanced stuff, nor found learning it helpful.
I think everyone is so stuck on the relationship between Cs and math they refuse to even hear arguments that dispute this. Why is that? Why such math zealotry?
Well, I can't believe I'm going to say this considering I am definitely not a fan of Facebook, but if this is what it would take to make them drop the completely outrageous SMS price tag, then I'd support it.. And, that's knowing full-well that Facebook is just doing this to increase platform adoption, since if you want to 'text', you'd have to be on FB..
That said, I doubt I'd use it, just because I don't have a Facebook account. But I'm hoping it would lower the SMS fees for myself. Competition is good, right?
This is an honest question: Now that shuttle discovery has been retired, what exactly are they going to be using to dock to the ISS for both bringing astronauts and supplies to/from there? I read the wikipedia article about the ISS but it didn't say anything.. I don't know why this is such a mystery to me, but I didn't think other countries were actively launching spaceships to it..
I'm surprised that this article didn't cover what is probably the most obvious example of a bubble stock: Netflix. While Netflix is indeed making money, they are not making (nor have the potential to make, due to various reasons) what their stock is currently valued at. But, the problem is people think "oo netflix that's the way of the future, not old fashioned cable providers" and they pump their money into it.
There are many articles about Netflix being a bubble, but here's the first one I found off of Google which summarizes a portion of the problem: bubble.
I think the difference between the last.com bubble and this one is that in the last one, companies had no way to make money, whereas in this one they are making some money, just nowhere near the crazy valuations that investors are giving them. The mindset is the same as last time, but the implementation is somewhat different.
Talking shit about the N900 on Slashdot is going to get you modded down pretty fast.. But I mean, yea we all love the N900 in that it's extremely flexible and open, but I have to say, from a consumer (non-geek perspective), it is not easy to use. Sorry, that's just the reality, in my opinion.
You know, they could do this. They could just stop indexing everything MPAA related (i.e. their homepage). That's more or less a death sentence on the internet these days.
There's always Google Listen. It's not live streaming, but it has a large library of "casts" (should I really use the word "pod" for non-iOS centric speech?) available for your to peruse. Just sayin'..
I have to say, while I, like many/. users, don't like facebook, I strongly believe that the "laymen" internet users were informed about this horribleness through social networks such as facebook. I for one was able to inform over 15 "friends" (we'll use that term, I guess) and all of my family (none who are geeks) through facebook about this issue, and they all signed up because I was able to explain it well (i.e. you're going to pay more for internet).
So perhaps facebook has its place. In any case, I'm really happy this is happening, because it makes me sick to think how the CRTC is able to screw Canadians so easily to help corporations. What a sad government we have.
I read the article, I don't see anything specific to techies. Actually that whole article headline sounds like an article out of People magazine. What's going on here?
Actually you weren't given a choice. Once alive, it's against our (your, presumably, too) nature to end it. You're here now, and you can't take that back. Or rather, nobody can make it go back to before, when you didn't exist.
You gave your children life, and they had no choice in the matter.
That's assuming they wanted life, that they want to live. See, the curious thing is if they never existed, it would have never mattered anyways. It's funny that people talk about how "life itself" is a gift, but that really doesn't make any sense.
Nothing like ret-conning the evil out of our past. I mean, it's not like we should remember history so we don't repeat it, or anything. Protect the children at all costs, their innocent eyes shouldn't ever know the word "nigger."
There was some sarcasm in there, in case you didn't notice.
I think this comes as no surprise to anyone. It's an interesting move, and it brings us one step closer to the end of the "PC era." Is this really what people want? I guess it must be.
Well, pictures were leaked of the blackhawk and the stealth bomber from the US too, though it occurred later in its life.
That said, I'm starting to wonder about miss-direction. It does look similar to the F-22, and the US may assume it borrowed more than the look. This would mean they'll get cocky about their ability to detect it, while perhaps the Chinese are working on something very different..
Of course, this probably isn't the case, given China's history of just taking existing items and modifying them, rather than inventing.
Well I'm glad they officially fixed the kernel lock. Out of curiosity, how long until Ubuntu or Debian sees this integrated into their line? A year? Not trolling, I only started using Ubuntu recently, so I'm curious.
I'm not trolling or anything, I'm honestly really curious what the value in dumping all this money into R&D for this issue is? Will we really gain deep insights into AI that we don't already have by doing this?
Yup. And to bring a little more context to "some countries", how about: Canada. The two major providers in the Toronto area are Bell and Rogers, both of which do not offer unlimited plans at all.
As countless articles have already pointed out, it's extremely strange for Microsoft to start "porting" or whatever Windows 7 [embedded|CE|whatever] to ARM. They made a touch interface, they supposedly think it's awesome.. why aren't they using it?
Talk about fragmentation.. This is just making development/platform targeting even worse, with no gain.
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I have a Samsung Captivate, and I also experience this problem. Oddly enough, I experience similar problems with an Asus EEE netbook running Ubuntu 10.10, though maybe that isn't related, and the symptoms are just similar..
I hope this fix this ASAP. Maybe if everyone 'stars' the bug?
I don't know about the states, but Canada has wide adoption of contact-less credit cards*. In almost all the gas stations in my area, and many stores, I can simply hold up my wallet with my credit card in it to pay for things. No swiping necessary. This is a huge convenience IMO. I realize you may say "but how much work is it really to take the card out of your wallet, and swipe it?" Physically it's not a lot of extra effort, but the card readers often don't work the first time, and when you're freezing your ass off trying to put gas in the car, those extra seconds saved really help. And, not having to remove the card is also a plus.
Anyways, I think all of these future conveniences are just that anyways - small upgrades that we don't "need", but I guess we really have run out of things to innovate, so there it is.
*note - visa and mastercard mailed out cards with a chip and contact-less support about a year and a half ago, while this shift was occurring. At first I was upset, because having to remember another PIN for a credit card was annoying, but the lack of swipe made me happy.
I guess this is what I'm talking about. I have a B.Sc, I got it years ago, and here you are with your snarky response, judging me, as if I'm too stupid for the math (yes, it's implied with what you said). It's not that I can't learn it, as obviously I did, it's that it wasn't useful. But I guess if it helps validate people like you, it will never change, since it's a big circle-jerk in acadamia.
I don't get why I had to learn all the math in university. I agree some math is useful, but I have never in my 10 years working applied any of the advanced stuff, nor found learning it helpful.
I think everyone is so stuck on the relationship between Cs and math they refuse to even hear arguments that dispute this. Why is that? Why such math zealotry?
Well, I can't believe I'm going to say this considering I am definitely not a fan of Facebook, but if this is what it would take to make them drop the completely outrageous SMS price tag, then I'd support it.. And, that's knowing full-well that Facebook is just doing this to increase platform adoption, since if you want to 'text', you'd have to be on FB..
That said, I doubt I'd use it, just because I don't have a Facebook account. But I'm hoping it would lower the SMS fees for myself. Competition is good, right?
This is an honest question: Now that shuttle discovery has been retired, what exactly are they going to be using to dock to the ISS for both bringing astronauts and supplies to/from there? I read the wikipedia article about the ISS but it didn't say anything.. I don't know why this is such a mystery to me, but I didn't think other countries were actively launching spaceships to it..
If anyone knows the answer, it would be helpful.
I'm surprised that this article didn't cover what is probably the most obvious example of a bubble stock: Netflix. While Netflix is indeed making money, they are not making (nor have the potential to make, due to various reasons) what their stock is currently valued at. But, the problem is people think "oo netflix that's the way of the future, not old fashioned cable providers" and they pump their money into it.
There are many articles about Netflix being a bubble, but here's the first one I found off of Google which summarizes a portion of the problem: bubble.
I think the difference between the last .com bubble and this one is that in the last one, companies had no way to make money, whereas in this one they are making some money, just nowhere near the crazy valuations that investors are giving them. The mindset is the same as last time, but the implementation is somewhat different.
Talking shit about the N900 on Slashdot is going to get you modded down pretty fast.. But I mean, yea we all love the N900 in that it's extremely flexible and open, but I have to say, from a consumer (non-geek perspective), it is not easy to use. Sorry, that's just the reality, in my opinion.
You know, they could do this. They could just stop indexing everything MPAA related (i.e. their homepage). That's more or less a death sentence on the internet these days.
There's always Google Listen. It's not live streaming, but it has a large library of "casts" (should I really use the word "pod" for non-iOS centric speech?) available for your to peruse. Just sayin'..
I have to say, while I, like many /. users, don't like facebook, I strongly believe that the "laymen" internet users were informed about this horribleness through social networks such as facebook. I for one was able to inform over 15 "friends" (we'll use that term, I guess) and all of my family (none who are geeks) through facebook about this issue, and they all signed up because I was able to explain it well (i.e. you're going to pay more for internet).
So perhaps facebook has its place. In any case, I'm really happy this is happening, because it makes me sick to think how the CRTC is able to screw Canadians so easily to help corporations. What a sad government we have.
I read the article, I don't see anything specific to techies. Actually that whole article headline sounds like an article out of People magazine. What's going on here?
Yes.
Actually you weren't given a choice. Once alive, it's against our (your, presumably, too) nature to end it. You're here now, and you can't take that back. Or rather, nobody can make it go back to before, when you didn't exist.
You gave your children life, and they had no choice in the matter.
That's assuming they wanted life, that they want to live. See, the curious thing is if they never existed, it would have never mattered anyways. It's funny that people talk about how "life itself" is a gift, but that really doesn't make any sense.
The 1 day turn around for a patch is pretty impressive. I wish some bigger companies would offer such fast patches against vulnerabilities..
Nothing like ret-conning the evil out of our past. I mean, it's not like we should remember history so we don't repeat it, or anything. Protect the children at all costs, their innocent eyes shouldn't ever know the word "nigger."
There was some sarcasm in there, in case you didn't notice.
I think this comes as no surprise to anyone. It's an interesting move, and it brings us one step closer to the end of the "PC era." Is this really what people want? I guess it must be.
Oops, you're quite right, I meant the SR-71, blackbird.
Well, pictures were leaked of the blackhawk and the stealth bomber from the US too, though it occurred later in its life.
That said, I'm starting to wonder about miss-direction. It does look similar to the F-22, and the US may assume it borrowed more than the look. This would mean they'll get cocky about their ability to detect it, while perhaps the Chinese are working on something very different..
Of course, this probably isn't the case, given China's history of just taking existing items and modifying them, rather than inventing.
Maybe the cloud will mean less in-house IT stuff, which means the IT debt won't even need to be paid off.
Now if Amazon or Microsoft is putting off the IT work for their cloud systems, that might.. be a problem..
Well I'm glad they officially fixed the kernel lock. Out of curiosity, how long until Ubuntu or Debian sees this integrated into their line? A year? Not trolling, I only started using Ubuntu recently, so I'm curious.
I'm not trolling or anything, I'm honestly really curious what the value in dumping all this money into R&D for this issue is? Will we really gain deep insights into AI that we don't already have by doing this?
Yup. And to bring a little more context to "some countries", how about: Canada. The two major providers in the Toronto area are Bell and Rogers, both of which do not offer unlimited plans at all.
As countless articles have already pointed out, it's extremely strange for Microsoft to start "porting" or whatever Windows 7 [embedded|CE|whatever] to ARM. They made a touch interface, they supposedly think it's awesome.. why aren't they using it?
Talk about fragmentation.. This is just making development/platform targeting even worse, with no gain.