IIRC, it doesn't say that it's charging, but it will trickle-charge. The problem is that USB ports don't provide enough power for a device that current-hungry to charge from. My ASUS Transformer Pad Inifinity is the same way: It doesn't say it's charging when I plug it into my computer, but it will slowly charge if I'm not using it (1% every 10 minutes or so).
The battery in my 2-year-old iPhone 4 still lasts almost as long as it did new. I go through a day which includes some web browsing and app usage and it's still only at 70% when I get home.
As an applicant, you are not yet an employee. If they want to demand that I give them that information after I am an employee, and I refuse, I would not be surprised if there can be a wrongful termination lawsuit.
I'm switching to Sprint as soon as I can afford the initial investment, and/or my AT&T contract expires.
Though, my AT&T phone actually works in my apartment now, so it isn't as pressing of an issue...
> Plus, don't most lights go to flashing yellow (= 4 way stop) at off-peak times?
Traffic lights on side streets, or business intersections, perhaps. But not all lights. And it'd be flashing red if it'd be a 4-way stop. Most of the ones I see do flashing red to the smaller road and flashing yellow to the through road.
> HDMI allows sending audio over the same cable, DVI does not.
Actually, you can get audio out of a DVI port on a video card. I have a GTX570, with one of its DVI ports connected to an HDMI port on my TV with a DVI to HDMI cable, and audio routes over that cable just fine. I was actually surprised the first time it happened, for I thought the same as you.
You still have to actually dial "911" after hitting the emergency call button. All it does is give you a dialpad (which pretty much only lets you dial 911, or whatever the local emergency number is).
Their latest, the MacBook Air is something I don't want and most people on Slashdot think is useless junk. It's also been sold out in many locations for about 6 months now.
I find that to be rather amazing since it's only been out for about 3.5 months.;)
I have Powermac G4 Quicksilver and a MacBook (Late 2006), each running Leopard. I've had no more stability issues with Leopard than I have had with Tiger on either machine. In fact, the G4 has been running for fourteen and a half days as I use it to type this, without sleep. I use it as my web browsing/IRC/AIM/Email box when I'm at home. My Macbook isn't as fortunate as it does freeze up from time to time, but I run more aggressive things on it. It's no less stable than Tiger was. If anything it's more stable.
Is it really? My MacBook's GMA950 has handled everything I throw at it very well, from UT99 to Armagetron Advanced to day-to-day usage. I don't see any reason why the baseline would need anything more.
>> OS X and Windows hard coded assumptions about how drives will be setup only come into play when the device in question is an actual hard disk.
Except they can't tell the difference between a flash drive and a hard drive. Over USB, a mass storage device is a mass storage device. I have a 200 GB USB2/IEEE1394 drive which (unfortunately) is formatted as a single large NTFS partition (using the MBR partition scheme). Gentoo (over USB and 1394), Mac OS X (over USB and 1394), and Windows (only have USB on that box) all see it and mount it properly (and all for read-write, using ntfs-3g where needed).
A flash drive typically has an MBR partition table as well, with a single partition covering the whole drive. You aren't strictly required to have only one partition, though. I've dabled a bit with having a FAT and ext2 partition on an SD card for booting an old Palm into Linux; the card was mountable in all three OSes using a card reader.
Well, I hate to be blunt, but they're not going to do anything more than put the restore DVD in and re-install OS X if the file system is completely wiped. You might have luck booting to single-user commandline mode (hold cmd-s when powering on) and doing "fsck -fr", or booting the restore disk and firing up Terminal and doing it there if it won't boot to single-user.
Now, if it was a physical crash on the hard drive, I don't see how Parallels could have caused it.
Except StarCraft: Ghost wasn't developed in-house. StarCraft II is.
Many in the gaming community were under the assumption that the game was being developed by Blizzard when it has in fact been a third-party project since its inception, starting with Nihilistic (...) and officially moved over to Swingin' Ape Studios (...) in July 2004. On May 16, 2005, Blizzard Entertainment acquired Swingin' Ape Studios, and in March 2006 they announced that Starcraft: Ghost was on indefinite hold.
As far as I can tell, Opera still supports all the way back to Windows 95, and has no intention of dropping said support anytime soon. Once Firefox drops Windows 98 support, you should try Opera for those boxes.
It's already being wasted. Almost every drive formatted with NTFS (or any other file system for that matter) will have a cluster size of 4KB -- 8 physical sectors. NTFS won't give less than 1 cluster to a file (very small files are an exception, they're stored in a more efficient manner already), so you're allocating 4KB to the small file to begin with. Changing the size of the sector will have no effect on the size of the cluster, it will just reduce the number of sectors in a cluster.
I have the same problem with my 1.5GB of RAM. I never had an issue with it when I only had 512MB of RAM. Could you be so kind as to give me the number you called and more specific information on what you had to say to get them to divulge this patch?
And why don't they just release it to the general public? Oh wait, that'd just be smart.
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IIRC, it doesn't say that it's charging, but it will trickle-charge. The problem is that USB ports don't provide enough power for a device that current-hungry to charge from. My ASUS Transformer Pad Inifinity is the same way: It doesn't say it's charging when I plug it into my computer, but it will slowly charge if I'm not using it (1% every 10 minutes or so).
The battery in my 2-year-old iPhone 4 still lasts almost as long as it did new. I go through a day which includes some web browsing and app usage and it's still only at 70% when I get home.
As an applicant, you are not yet an employee. If they want to demand that I give them that information after I am an employee, and I refuse, I would not be surprised if there can be a wrongful termination lawsuit.
I'm switching to Sprint as soon as I can afford the initial investment, and/or my AT&T contract expires. Though, my AT&T phone actually works in my apartment now, so it isn't as pressing of an issue...
> Plus, don't most lights go to flashing yellow (= 4 way stop) at off-peak times?
Traffic lights on side streets, or business intersections, perhaps. But not all lights. And it'd be flashing red if it'd be a 4-way stop. Most of the ones I see do flashing red to the smaller road and flashing yellow to the through road.
I was able to dual-boot Android on my iPhone 3G a year and a half ago. It was pretty bad, but it ... functioned.
> HDMI allows sending audio over the same cable, DVI does not.
Actually, you can get audio out of a DVI port on a video card. I have a GTX570, with one of its DVI ports connected to an HDMI port on my TV with a DVI to HDMI cable, and audio routes over that cable just fine. I was actually surprised the first time it happened, for I thought the same as you.
You still have to actually dial "911" after hitting the emergency call button. All it does is give you a dialpad (which pretty much only lets you dial 911, or whatever the local emergency number is).
The trash icon changes into an eject icon when you're dragging an umountable volume. It's still undiscoverable, but it isn't quite as silly.
I find that to be rather amazing since it's only been out for about 3.5 months. ;)
Funny how in a story about Opera you didn't try running the Acid2 test in Opera, which indeed passes it.
I have Powermac G4 Quicksilver and a MacBook (Late 2006), each running Leopard. I've had no more stability issues with Leopard than I have had with Tiger on either machine. In fact, the G4 has been running for fourteen and a half days as I use it to type this, without sleep. I use it as my web browsing/IRC/AIM/Email box when I'm at home. My Macbook isn't as fortunate as it does freeze up from time to time, but I run more aggressive things on it. It's no less stable than Tiger was. If anything it's more stable.
Just a load of FUD.
Is it really? My MacBook's GMA950 has handled everything I throw at it very well, from UT99 to Armagetron Advanced to day-to-day usage. I don't see any reason why the baseline would need anything more.
>> OS X and Windows hard coded assumptions about how drives will be setup only come into play when the device in question is an actual hard disk.
Except they can't tell the difference between a flash drive and a hard drive. Over USB, a mass storage device is a mass storage device. I have a 200 GB USB2/IEEE1394 drive which (unfortunately) is formatted as a single large NTFS partition (using the MBR partition scheme). Gentoo (over USB and 1394), Mac OS X (over USB and 1394), and Windows (only have USB on that box) all see it and mount it properly (and all for read-write, using ntfs-3g where needed).
A flash drive typically has an MBR partition table as well, with a single partition covering the whole drive. You aren't strictly required to have only one partition, though. I've dabled a bit with having a FAT and ext2 partition on an SD card for booting an old Palm into Linux; the card was mountable in all three OSes using a card reader.
Well, I hate to be blunt, but they're not going to do anything more than put the restore DVD in and re-install OS X if the file system is completely wiped. You might have luck booting to single-user commandline mode (hold cmd-s when powering on) and doing "fsck -fr", or booting the restore disk and firing up Terminal and doing it there if it won't boot to single-user. Now, if it was a physical crash on the hard drive, I don't see how Parallels could have caused it.
Except StarCraft: Ghost wasn't developed in-house. StarCraft II is.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Ghost)I'm looking at C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\src.zip. Sure looks like the sources to the class libraries to me!
As far as I can tell, Opera still supports all the way back to Windows 95, and has no intention of dropping said support anytime soon. Once Firefox drops Windows 98 support, you should try Opera for those boxes.
>> Would you want to attend a college run by a bunch of yahoos?
No, but I'd attend a college run by a bunch of googles.
It's already being wasted. Almost every drive formatted with NTFS (or any other file system for that matter) will have a cluster size of 4KB -- 8 physical sectors. NTFS won't give less than 1 cluster to a file (very small files are an exception, they're stored in a more efficient manner already), so you're allocating 4KB to the small file to begin with. Changing the size of the sector will have no effect on the size of the cluster, it will just reduce the number of sectors in a cluster.
They don't have proper video drivers yet. They're working on it and should have them working shortly.
I have the same problem with my 1.5GB of RAM. I never had an issue with it when I only had 512MB of RAM. Could you be so kind as to give me the number you called and more specific information on what you had to say to get them to divulge this patch? And why don't they just release it to the general public? Oh wait, that'd just be smart.
Where'd he get the melange? I'm running out.
I wanted to warn "AOL System Msg" for unsolicited spam, but it wouldn't let me... :(
I'd like to see them try to sue /. for slander for this. In fact, I'd die of laughter.
Now, being sued for libel is something I'd be worried about.