I don't know if it is 100% legal to use Google's closed apps on a unofficial firmware; perhaps it is, because the phone hardware was licensed to run them originally. So far, it doesn't look like Google have had particular problems with people doing this.
There was a short period of time where Google had a beef with CyanogenMod when it included the Google apps as part of its distribution. Wkipedia has a bit of coverage of the event.
The short version is that Google allows end users to back-up the Google apps that are licensed for the device from the OEM firmware, and then re-install them onto CyanogenMod later, however CyanogenMod is not allowed to distribute the apps themselves.
In fact, something is wrong with my car that it hasn't even detected...my thermostat is wedged on, which means the coolant system and fan are always operating, so the damn engine doesn't heat up unless I idle in place. I'm driving with my engine temp pinned all the way down at 100, which is probably hurting my gas mileage.
The car has completely failed to notice this.
Could be worse; at least it's stuck open, not closed!
OTOH, I'm still getting 27 mph, so whatever.
27 mph, eh? No freeways for you!:-P (I know, you meant mpg; I just couldn't resist.)
What I wish cars had is a mandatory display of error codes. It is really absurd to have to hook anything up to read them.
I owned a 2008 Jeep Wrangler a couple of years back, and there was a little dance that you could put the controls through to get it to display all of the OBD codes in the digital odometer display. I don't think you can clear them, but at least you can get a readout without having to visit a mechanic's.
Subaru got clever, though; when Check Engine comes on in the newer models (2008 and up at least), it also disables cruise control. What's really bad is, it can take several off-on cycles of the engine before the "loose gas cap" condition clears, so if you're on an 800 mile road trip... you can be going a long way without cruise.
Wow! If I ever pick up a modern Subaru, I'll be sure to keep a OBD reader in the glove box to clear the code by hand. I don't know that I could survive an 80 mile road-trip without cruise, let alone 800...
It would be nice if the CEL had two levels of alert, one for minor issues such as an O2 sensor that, at worst, reduces engine efficiency, and major issues, such as a dead cylinder, regular misfire, or ECU problem.
The ones I'm familiar with do - if it's flashing, you have a serious problem that warrants immediate investigation. Usually this is caused by excessive misfires.
I'm driving a Chevy Colorado with the original 5-cyl 3.5L engine design; excessive misfires due to carbon buildup on the valve seats are a feature, not a bug.:-/
Well, my CEL has been on for a couple of weeks now. A quick diagnostic the day that it came on told me that it was an O2 sensor heating circuit that was misbehaving, so it's A) not a critical problem, and B) only causes an issue until the exhaust gasses bring the O2 sensor up to operating temperature. I'll probably drive it like this for another month before I get an opportunity to take the truck into my mechanic's; no big issue, though.
It would be nice if the CEL had two levels of alert, one for minor issues such as an O2 sensor that, at worst, reduces engine efficiency, and major issues, such as a dead cylinder, regular misfire, or ECU problem.
Zed: "Bring out the Hack!" Maynard: "The Hack's not online." Zed: "Then I guess you'll just have to page him, won't you?"
---
Jules: "FAQ 25.17: The righteous higher resolution modes require correspondingly more system memory in order to run..." "Blessed are such modes that are not listed in the video modes menu, for they would only slow down the microprocessor."
---
Fabienne: Whose synthesizer? Butch: It's not a synthesizer, it's a sampler. Fabienne: Whose sampler? Butch: Chemlab's. Fabienne: Who's Chemlab? Butch: Chemlab's dead, baby. Chemlab's dead.
I always thought that the reason certain antibiotics are to be taken with food is that the food has a moderating effect on the body's absorption of the drug - the concentration of the drug in the bloodstream takes longer to peak, and longer to drop, leading to a more even concentration in the bloodstream wrt. time.
A quick bit of googling turned up this, which suggests that perhaps the issue is more complicated. It seems that the presence of food increases absorption rates for some antibiotics, and decreases for others. It also indicates that the presence of food helps to reduce stomach upset that some drugs cause.
Facebook vs. Snooze - An app that ties in to facebook in such a way that others see a "wake up" button [on your wall / in your news feed / something] at the time you set your alarm to go off. When someone clicks it, the button disables and your alarm rings. Pushing snooze not only silences your alarm, but re-enables said button.
Hilarity ensues as people try to claim the honor of being the jerkface who finally woke you up.
So, about that third choice: Considered a BlackBerry recently? As long as you have the capacity to run your own BES or don't live in the third-world, your privacy is secure.
And RIM doesn't necessarily rape their developers - they just demand notarized ID and a couple bucks before letting them into the private S&M club.
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You're not the only one who can't get Rogers' website to work properly; the rest of their customers can't, either.
Mod parent down; SPAM.
Same thing for cats: they have been selectively breeding humans for 6000 or so years....
Your cats selected your mate for you as well, eh?
Worked out fine for me. Not sure what traits they're breeding us for, though.
Vi rules, eh?
vi has nothing on ed.
user@host:~$ ed
?
^C
?
quit
?
q
user@host:~$
Now there's a real man's editor.
And if you thought Naturally was the first baseman, then you don't know Who.
What?
(My Ham Radio site, Coralized for Slashdot protection)
Failure:
You are trying to access a PlanetLab node, but the service seems to be overloaded at the moment. Please try again.
I don't know if it is 100% legal to use Google's closed apps on a unofficial firmware; perhaps it is, because the phone hardware was licensed to run them originally. So far, it doesn't look like Google have had particular problems with people doing this.
There was a short period of time where Google had a beef with CyanogenMod when it included the Google apps as part of its distribution. Wkipedia has a bit of coverage of the event.
The short version is that Google allows end users to back-up the Google apps that are licensed for the device from the OEM firmware, and then re-install them onto CyanogenMod later, however CyanogenMod is not allowed to distribute the apps themselves.
In fact, something is wrong with my car that it hasn't even detected...my thermostat is wedged on, which means the coolant system and fan are always operating, so the damn engine doesn't heat up unless I idle in place. I'm driving with my engine temp pinned all the way down at 100, which is probably hurting my gas mileage.
The car has completely failed to notice this.
Could be worse; at least it's stuck open, not closed!
OTOH, I'm still getting 27 mph, so whatever.
27 mph, eh? No freeways for you! :-P (I know, you meant mpg; I just couldn't resist.)
What I wish cars had is a mandatory display of error codes. It is really absurd to have to hook anything up to read them.
I owned a 2008 Jeep Wrangler a couple of years back, and there was a little dance that you could put the controls through to get it to display all of the OBD codes in the digital odometer display. I don't think you can clear them, but at least you can get a readout without having to visit a mechanic's.
I wish all cars did this!
Subaru got clever, though; when Check Engine comes on in the newer models (2008 and up at least), it also disables cruise control. What's really bad is, it can take several off-on cycles of the engine before the "loose gas cap" condition clears, so if you're on an 800 mile road trip... you can be going a long way without cruise.
Wow! If I ever pick up a modern Subaru, I'll be sure to keep a OBD reader in the glove box to clear the code by hand. I don't know that I could survive an 80 mile road-trip without cruise, let alone 800...
It would be nice if the CEL had two levels of alert, one for minor issues such as an O2 sensor that, at worst, reduces engine efficiency, and major issues, such as a dead cylinder, regular misfire, or ECU problem.
The ones I'm familiar with do - if it's flashing, you have a serious problem that warrants immediate investigation. Usually this is caused by excessive misfires.
I'm driving a Chevy Colorado with the original 5-cyl 3.5L engine design; excessive misfires due to carbon buildup on the valve seats are a feature, not a bug. :-/
Well, my CEL has been on for a couple of weeks now. A quick diagnostic the day that it came on told me that it was an O2 sensor heating circuit that was misbehaving, so it's A) not a critical problem, and B) only causes an issue until the exhaust gasses bring the O2 sensor up to operating temperature. I'll probably drive it like this for another month before I get an opportunity to take the truck into my mechanic's; no big issue, though.
It would be nice if the CEL had two levels of alert, one for minor issues such as an O2 sensor that, at worst, reduces engine efficiency, and major issues, such as a dead cylinder, regular misfire, or ECU problem.
Holy crap! Anonymous has hacked the kernel servers and left a backdoor?
What FTP server will they hit next, sunsite?
This.
That link right there is some brilliant stuff!
Zed: "Bring out the Hack!"
Maynard: "The Hack's not online."
Zed: "Then I guess you'll just have to page him, won't you?"
---
Jules:
"FAQ 25.17: The righteous higher resolution modes require correspondingly more system memory in order to run..."
"Blessed are such modes that are not listed in the video modes menu, for they would only slow down the microprocessor."
---
Fabienne: Whose synthesizer?
Butch: It's not a synthesizer, it's a sampler.
Fabienne: Whose sampler?
Butch: Chemlab's.
Fabienne: Who's Chemlab?
Butch: Chemlab's dead, baby. Chemlab's dead.
I had to...
while true; do dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/mem bs=1 count=1 skip=$RANDOM seek=$RANDOM; done
[snip]
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 bytes (1B) copied, 0.009999 seconds, 100B/s
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000004ba
printing eip:
c0154c12
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#3]
invalid opcode: 0000 [#4]
Recursive die() failure, output suppressed
Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
[/snip]
BOOM!
Tried this yet?
It's an improvement over vanilla IE, although I haven't compared it to whatever changes they've made in IE9.
It looks like this time around, we're left with this:
uuencode / uudecode for the win, right?
To recover the system back to basics, I reloaded the browser.
If only every system recovery was this simple...
Wellp, there's your stress-test / Javascript benchmark :D
I managed to get Chrome to sit on an entire CPU core with that little gem, and it vomited this all over the terminal:
Too bad I couldn't get it to recognize the magic-sys-rq key combos.
I always thought that the reason certain antibiotics are to be taken with food is that the food has a moderating effect on the body's absorption of the drug - the concentration of the drug in the bloodstream takes longer to peak, and longer to drop, leading to a more even concentration in the bloodstream wrt. time.
A quick bit of googling turned up this, which suggests that perhaps the issue is more complicated. It seems that the presence of food increases absorption rates for some antibiotics, and decreases for others. It also indicates that the presence of food helps to reduce stomach upset that some drugs cause.
Here's what came to mind:
Facebook vs. Snooze - An app that ties in to facebook in such a way that others see a "wake up" button [on your wall / in your news feed / something] at the time you set your alarm to go off. When someone clicks it, the button disables and your alarm rings. Pushing snooze not only silences your alarm, but re-enables said button.
Hilarity ensues as people try to claim the honor of being the jerkface who finally woke you up.
So, about that third choice: Considered a BlackBerry recently? As long as you have the capacity to run your own BES or don't live in the third-world, your privacy is secure.
And RIM doesn't necessarily rape their developers - they just demand notarized ID and a couple bucks before letting them into the private S&M club.
TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if Steve has a life support suit in the works.
I suspect, however, that it would be white and aesthetically pleasing, not black and evil looking.
Man, I can't believe you left out the Beastie Boys!
Famous, Jewish (controversy / weird matriarchal rules aside), and geeks!
Nein, but when I was younger I was a fan of certain German sports cars that have a turbo. They compress air in a distinctly German fashion. Vroom!