They're all x86 but each motherboard is different and requires different drivers, making booting a pre-installed Windows on another motherboard a complete nightmare.
But with all the activation crap that Microsoft packs in I'm amazed it works at all. But even then, it's just a matter of loading drivers. It is outright impossible to install a different OS on an ARM platform other than reflashing the one it came with, unless you're willing to spend time hacking the shit out of the revisionless kernel tarball a vendor drops.
Even then you're stuck without full hardware support if you wander away from the blessed install, as all the video drivers are extremely OS dependent (and Android video drivers aren't compatible with Xorg) and build dependent (was it built with hardfp? was it not?)
I enjoy the inroads into Intel territory that ARM is making, but I don't enjoy the chaos that the complete and total lack of consistency in the ARM space is sewing in computing, as it's leaving people vulnerable to exploits that would normally be patched in short order by the OS vendor because the OEM is taking on a responsibility they aren't capable of or willing to fulfill.
Are they really saying a ~1cm^2 SIM is too big, even in an iPad?
A physically smaller, but otherwise identical, SIM card would be easy for most vendors to get behind. Reduced z-height and board area would be welcomed, considering that the average SIM card is mostly plastic and larger in all 3 dimensions than the average microSD card. And yes, all manufacturers take those parameters into consideration.
I've had enough other brand phones to see that there are better (i.e. smaller) ways to hold a SIM.
But no way to reduce the physical, internal footprint of the SIM card itself, short of eliminating all the plastic and soldering it in entirely or redesigning the packaging (which is mostly plastic and huge contacts.)
any attempt to represent the majority opinions (Conservatives - just check the Battleground Poll, question D3) is met with howls of protest and ad hominem attack.
But what branch of "conservatives" are you seeking the opinion of? Rational ones, or the nutty Fox News/Free Republic/Breitbart kind whose existence is defined not by conservatism but preying on people by spreading lies, half truths, and blind worship of a specific political party?
There are valid "Conservative" opinions out there, but they are by far drowned out by the loud and very politically active nutter branch that calls themselves "conservative."
I don't know of a single coal plant that has a sarcophagus over it
Good catch. Mostly that's because its toxic materials are either blown into the atmosphere or end up in large reservoirs on site, which have a habit of breaking.
a vast area around it where people are forbidden to live.
I suppose that's mostly because we're ignorant of the hazards of coal plant output. I hear the health effects are quite drastic, let alone living downstream in the event of a fly ash spill.
Obviously it is impossible, which is why we have yearly meltdowns and hundreds of huge exclusion zones around the wo...
Wait a second. We don't. It seems that, unlke oil or coal, the total number of major disasters is way lower on the nuke side.
It's too bad we can't actually build the newer, safer designs. People might protest. It reminds me of the protests when the Cassini probe was launched, all because it had a plutonium RTG on it.
It's annoying, but I suspect it's good business for Slashdot so they do it anyway.
I suspect that's why there's only ~3-4 editors aside from CmdrTaco that post anything anyway. They also seem to work in shifts, so it's probably just a line job now.
If you need ECC on a connection like this, then your equipment is broken.
Optical fiber: nope;
Why does this matter? I could see it for going long distances, but otherwise I don't get it.
Text channel (e.g. for closed captioning): nope;
You're doing it wrong. Horribly wrong.
Content "protection": yep.
And DVI, and DP, etc. The companies behind computing are gung-ho WRT DRM. No getting around it (well, you can now that the root key has been released!)
It's still inconvenient. The question is to what degree. Netflix's DRM is at best a joke, and at worst useless because no one gives a shit to rip low quality streams sent to a phone.
Just like that one still entombed at TMI... oh wait, they removed it and cut it open to find out what happened. I imagine the same will happen to these.
I don't see any reports that there are large numbers of people with high concentrations of radioisotopes in them. I have heard reports about how quickly people were evacuated from the exclusion zone and emergency precautions were taken to inhibit the uptake of iodine (the first and most likely hazard.)
Whereas between coal and oil, I'm sure far more damage, pollution, and illness has resulted.
in other words, other people skip right by condemning only management and engineering failures, and go right on to condemn the entire concept of nuclear power. and this is logical and correct, since management and engineering failures are ubiquitous and always will be/blockquote.
And by that retarded logic, society and all progress (starting from the discovery of fire) should be condemned. Ban civilization, it can cause bad things to happen as a result of human nature!
I don't think there have been any "Nuclear Power at Any Costs" types. Everyone who wants it also wants it to be safe. Of course, the anti-nuke people would like you to think that any and all nuclear supporters wouldn't give a damn when one had a failure.
The possibility of a blob of molten nuclear fuel in a full blown fission reaction melting its way through the subsoil and into groundwater, contaminating everything in its path and blowing a very dirty plume of steam into the atmosphere is not welcome news.
No, but at the same time it isn't very likely. I mean, unless you have evidence to back up your fear-induced claim. Certainly it would have happened now if it were that out of control.
So where are all those people claiming that network neutrality was a solution looking for a problem? Hmm?
This could be a glitch, or it could be real (probably real, Comcast doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.) In either case, Comcast and all ISPs should be legally barred from looking at the data streams and destinations of their customers. Tier 2 telecommunications providers, just like the telephone companies have been for years on end.
There are still plenty of plants that OSHA and EPA and NAFTA have not managed to shut down yet
I know, we should just give power back to the corporations and let them pollute our environment and encourage unsafe working conditions, all for the sake of profits.
although our govt is trying their hardest to destroy our middle class.
Complicit with the corporations, I assure you. They benefit the most from NAFTA (fire expensive American workers, hire cheap Mexican workers,) and they benefit highly from shoveling jobs out to China and India (three cheers for poor worker and environmental protections!)
Of course it'll be closed like a motherfucker. Anyone who wants in will have to ask Microsoft for their blessing, and anyone who defies Microsoft will be kicked out.
I believe important parts of the GUI library were missing. And if cross platform was the issue, they were using Qt as I understand it, so there's no real excuse.
You don't sound Libertarian. You sound like someone who is burping up Conservative "talking points" and trying to "defend yourself" against "libs" and the "Liberal Mainstream Media."
Don't get me wrong, the (R) side of things isn't much better.
If you hadn't noticed, the entire (R) side of things has gone completely off the fucking deep end.
Google could totally have gone with an Ubuntu derived OS instead of Android.
They went with Android because it was totally proprietary and outside from the kernel and a handful of other bits, they could direct development exactly as they wanted and, as we've seen, keep the sources closed on a whim. Also, no one else benefits from improvements in Android. Not even current users unless they know enough to root and install Cyanogen Mod (and that's assuming they can.)
Google did a better job at diverting attention away from open source mobile efforts by parroting "we're open!" than Apple or Microsoft could have ever hoped to achieve.
Not all of us were suckered into Google's "open" lullaby back in 2007, so it's not all a lost cause. Though to be fair, the parts Google was obligated to release have been.
Apple is obligated to release this software and haven't. I suppose this makes my choice to dump OS X from my old Macbook in favor of Ubuntu justified (not that I need justification, but Apple makes it so easy these days.)
fukushima will likely need a permanent exclusion zone as well
Doubtful. The lack of a core explosion means that the vast majority of long term radiological hazards and dangerous isotopes are still contained. The primary hazards in Chernobyl are high quantities of enriched uranium, plutonium, and strontium in the areas surrounding the plant.
We'll know more once the plant stops leaking material and the Iodine has had time to decay, but I suspect that the radiation will drop dramatically and that a minor cleanup effort will be needed in the areas surrounding the plant. Permanent evacuation? Unlikely.
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But with all the activation crap that Microsoft packs in I'm amazed it works at all. But even then, it's just a matter of loading drivers. It is outright impossible to install a different OS on an ARM platform other than reflashing the one it came with, unless you're willing to spend time hacking the shit out of the revisionless kernel tarball a vendor drops.
Even then you're stuck without full hardware support if you wander away from the blessed install, as all the video drivers are extremely OS dependent (and Android video drivers aren't compatible with Xorg) and build dependent (was it built with hardfp? was it not?)
I enjoy the inroads into Intel territory that ARM is making, but I don't enjoy the chaos that the complete and total lack of consistency in the ARM space is sewing in computing, as it's leaving people vulnerable to exploits that would normally be patched in short order by the OS vendor because the OEM is taking on a responsibility they aren't capable of or willing to fulfill.
A physically smaller, but otherwise identical, SIM card would be easy for most vendors to get behind. Reduced z-height and board area would be welcomed, considering that the average SIM card is mostly plastic and larger in all 3 dimensions than the average microSD card. And yes, all manufacturers take those parameters into consideration.
But no way to reduce the physical, internal footprint of the SIM card itself, short of eliminating all the plastic and soldering it in entirely or redesigning the packaging (which is mostly plastic and huge contacts.)
With GRUB ~= 2.0, you aren't supposed to mess with grub.conf. You're supposed to mess with a shitpile of external .conf files and command line tools.
But what branch of "conservatives" are you seeking the opinion of? Rational ones, or the nutty Fox News/Free Republic/Breitbart kind whose existence is defined not by conservatism but preying on people by spreading lies, half truths, and blind worship of a specific political party?
There are valid "Conservative" opinions out there, but they are by far drowned out by the loud and very politically active nutter branch that calls themselves "conservative."
Good catch. Mostly that's because its toxic materials are either blown into the atmosphere or end up in large reservoirs on site, which have a habit of breaking.
I suppose that's mostly because we're ignorant of the hazards of coal plant output. I hear the health effects are quite drastic, let alone living downstream in the event of a fly ash spill.
Obviously it is impossible, which is why we have yearly meltdowns and hundreds of huge exclusion zones around the wo...
Wait a second. We don't. It seems that, unlke oil or coal, the total number of major disasters is way lower on the nuke side.
It's too bad we can't actually build the newer, safer designs. People might protest. It reminds me of the protests when the Cassini probe was launched, all because it had a plutonium RTG on it.
It's annoying, but I suspect it's good business for Slashdot so they do it anyway.
I suspect that's why there's only ~3-4 editors aside from CmdrTaco that post anything anyway. They also seem to work in shifts, so it's probably just a line job now.
He's bitching about HDMI, not the cables.
Why does this matter?
If you need ECC on a connection like this, then your equipment is broken.
Why does this matter? I could see it for going long distances, but otherwise I don't get it.
You're doing it wrong. Horribly wrong.
And DVI, and DP, etc. The companies behind computing are gung-ho WRT DRM. No getting around it (well, you can now that the root key has been released!)
It's still inconvenient. The question is to what degree. Netflix's DRM is at best a joke, and at worst useless because no one gives a shit to rip low quality streams sent to a phone.
Samsung doesn't want to work with MeeGo, at best they'll meet up at the Linaro level. LG has already hopped on the handset working group.
Just like that one still entombed at TMI... oh wait, they removed it and cut it open to find out what happened. I imagine the same will happen to these.
I don't see any reports that there are large numbers of people with high concentrations of radioisotopes in them. I have heard reports about how quickly people were evacuated from the exclusion zone and emergency precautions were taken to inhibit the uptake of iodine (the first and most likely hazard.)
Whereas between coal and oil, I'm sure far more damage, pollution, and illness has resulted.
If that happens. IF.
Seems there's lots of people really, really hoping it does. Sick fucks.
I don't think there have been any "Nuclear Power at Any Costs" types. Everyone who wants it also wants it to be safe. Of course, the anti-nuke people would like you to think that any and all nuclear supporters wouldn't give a damn when one had a failure.
No, but at the same time it isn't very likely. I mean, unless you have evidence to back up your fear-induced claim. Certainly it would have happened now if it were that out of control.
So where are all those people claiming that network neutrality was a solution looking for a problem? Hmm?
This could be a glitch, or it could be real (probably real, Comcast doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.) In either case, Comcast and all ISPs should be legally barred from looking at the data streams and destinations of their customers. Tier 2 telecommunications providers, just like the telephone companies have been for years on end.
I know, we should just give power back to the corporations and let them pollute our environment and encourage unsafe working conditions, all for the sake of profits.
Complicit with the corporations, I assure you. They benefit the most from NAFTA (fire expensive American workers, hire cheap Mexican workers,) and they benefit highly from shoveling jobs out to China and India (three cheers for poor worker and environmental protections!)
Beware the terrible screen though, and Nvidia is dropping support for Harmony-based devices due to highly visible processor errata.
Do you have to ask?
Of course it'll be closed like a motherfucker. Anyone who wants in will have to ask Microsoft for their blessing, and anyone who defies Microsoft will be kicked out.
Windows .NET != Linux .NET
I believe important parts of the GUI library were missing. And if cross platform was the issue, they were using Qt as I understand it, so there's no real excuse.
You don't sound Libertarian. You sound like someone who is burping up Conservative "talking points" and trying to "defend yourself" against "libs" and the "Liberal Mainstream Media."
If you hadn't noticed, the entire (R) side of things has gone completely off the fucking deep end.
Google could totally have gone with an Ubuntu derived OS instead of Android.
They went with Android because it was totally proprietary and outside from the kernel and a handful of other bits, they could direct development exactly as they wanted and, as we've seen, keep the sources closed on a whim. Also, no one else benefits from improvements in Android. Not even current users unless they know enough to root and install Cyanogen Mod (and that's assuming they can.)
Google did a better job at diverting attention away from open source mobile efforts by parroting "we're open!" than Apple or Microsoft could have ever hoped to achieve.
Not all of us were suckered into Google's "open" lullaby back in 2007, so it's not all a lost cause. Though to be fair, the parts Google was obligated to release have been.
Apple is obligated to release this software and haven't. I suppose this makes my choice to dump OS X from my old Macbook in favor of Ubuntu justified (not that I need justification, but Apple makes it so easy these days.)
Doubtful. The lack of a core explosion means that the vast majority of long term radiological hazards and dangerous isotopes are still contained. The primary hazards in Chernobyl are high quantities of enriched uranium, plutonium, and strontium in the areas surrounding the plant.
We'll know more once the plant stops leaking material and the Iodine has had time to decay, but I suspect that the radiation will drop dramatically and that a minor cleanup effort will be needed in the areas surrounding the plant. Permanent evacuation? Unlikely.