That's the one thing I miss about my iPhone/iTunes. I want to have them update by exactly those two things!
There's nothing on Android that matches it. I'm writing a little Python app that tracks the accessed time and uses that to guess, but it's marginally effective at best.
Actually, lots of apps are now getting data synced with Google, so it is happening, but not as completely as it does with iCloud. It is free though.
Things like browser history and cookies are synced across not only devices, but across platforms. I can load chrome on any device and have everything (including open tabs) sync to my phone.
I will give you the Angry Birds level thing though, I haven't started that game again since I lost the data the first time.
The UI differences are as follows: Aero theme is now square instead of rounded Start menu has become a start screen Shutdown options are now from the settings menu instead of the start menu (number of clicks to shutdown/restart/sleep is the same as Vista/7; the only difference is it's on the right side of the screen instead of the left) There's a metro app switcher on the left side Common shortcuts are on a panel on the right side There's a super rad right click menu where the start button used to be
After using it for two months, that's all I've got. Event logs are the same as they've been since Vista, so is the control panel.
This has been my experience as well. While trying to fix a friend's iPhone I had to install iTunes and even without my library loaded it was dog slow on an i7 with 16GB of RAM. Loading the library made it even worse. Searching through 35,000 songs on iTunes takes ~10 seconds when doing an artist query, when searching for something like "Black Flag Nervous Breakdown" (band and song/album title) it took ~20. Plus the search doesn't support operators, or didn't a year or so ago, so queries like: 'Artist:"Black Flag" Album:"Nervous Breakdown" TrackNo:12' turns up nothing. iTunes takes orders of magnitude longer to start than any other media player/library manager, and gobbles up insane resources.
Doing the same searches in Foobar2000, MediaMonkey or Winamp takes 1second and supports operators; I think even WMP supports operators now. Startup of any of those is 1-3 seconds, and their resource footprint is 1/10th of iTunes.
The ONLY thing iTunes does nicely is create smart playlists.
Wait, what now? You do realize that deleting the information from Google, from your Google dashboard actually does delete Google's data on you? It has nothing to do with browser privacy. Sign in to your Google account and you can view and edit quite a bit of what information Google keeps on you, and control (some of) the information they'll gather on you in the future.
But I've already got Twitter to follow those types of things. Or Flickr where I can view much higher quality images. Or Facebook. Or Tumblr.
I guess I may just be social'ed out and not want to have to craft yet another list of people who make 50 boring posts for every interesting one they post. I know I'm included in that, I just don't see why I should contribute, or pay attention to even more noise.
That doesn't understand the appeal to this app. I've already got Vignette to do double the crappy hipster filtres that Instagram does; but Vignette gives me the option to customize and make my own.
The civil rights movement wasn't socialist enough. If it was you'd already have universal health care and wouldn't be arguing over if everyone having health care is a good idea or not. As someone who has lived in nations with and without universal healthcare, even with private insurance in the uncivilized nation, I can tell you that it's still a lot better to have it. The fact is countries without it, the US and the developing world, spend more on health care per person than countries that do have it. Additionally, countries with universal health care are healthier than those without it, shocking, right? Your country would be so much better off, especially the people who make up the lower and lower middle classes, if you'd just accept that it makes sense.
Energy prices DO need to skyrocket so that everything becomes more efficient. That black goo we dredge out of every available inch of land is not going to last forever. If we use half of what we do today to get the same energy out, we'll be a lot better off in the long run. The only way to get people to use less energy is by forcing them to, and the only way that's going to happen is by hitting them in the wallet.
Not only that, but this is exactly the kind of thing that people suggest as an effective solution all the time. Comments like "If they're not smart enough to encrypt their transmissions, it's their own fault for having people intercept them."
Spam will also be gone, so will passwords, cars that have to stay on the ground, studying will be replaced with instant direct to brain knowledge transfers, we'll have bases on Mars and an intergalactic cruise will set you back less than $30.
The real question should be "Do you want to live in a garbage coated toxin filled snowglobe?" Regardless of if climate change is happening, getting rid of dirty technology (fossil fuels) should be a priority. It's non-renewable which means sooner or later we'll need to switch away from it. It's dirty, smells bad, and destroys huge swaths of land that could be used for farming, or living in. It makes it hard to breathe in the immediate time frame and fills your body with stuff that can't possibly be good for you, look at smog/drive through NJ/blow your nose after working for a few hours at a refinery.
I can't fathom how people can deny it's happening, but in the end, it doesn't matter. All of the talk about how it's lining the pockets of people like Al Gore and how it's just a cash grab means nothing. It's either going to be the people trying to make things a bit cleaner that are making money, or the people that are stoked to keep filling the sky with stinky gasses. I for one would rather not smell diesel and burning coal everywhere I go, regardless of if one is saving and the other is damning the planet.
It just really, truly, doesn't matter if it's humans fault, or not. It doesn't even matter if we can prevent it. We can make the world a nicer place to live in by reducing pollution.
Yes, the 2.5 year old iPhone is running an old release of iOS, with the possibility of running a crippled version of the latest iOS. Currently the 2 year old Galaxy S is running an old version of Android, and is going to get a crippled version of the latest OS in the next few months.
It's absurd to think that to get all the latest features in a device you should have to buy a new one! Why, just look at Siri! It's available on the first generation iPhone!
I used to run Ubuntu Server with with one mdadm RAID5 array and one ZFS array using ZFS Native pool in RAIDZ1 as my file server. But I started running out of space in the RAID5 array, and was having massive problems with the ZFS pool under high IO (complete system lockups, deadlocks while flushing the write cache which killed SMB and NFS); 5Kb/sec writes and at most 5MB/sec reads after an initial 5-60 second _normal_ performance period.
ZFS's built in, block-level data de-duplication means significant savings on episodic content. I'm currently running at 4% de-duplicated data. While 4% savings may not sound like much, I've got 4.5TB of TV shows that I'm storing in x264, and that yields a savings of around 100GB. I know that until recently, storage was dirt cheap, but even still, 100GB is nothing to scoff at. I've debated enabling the built-in compression, but I don't think I want to take the resource hit as my wife has recently started streaming things to her laptop while myself or our roommate are watching things on our respective computers.
Additionally, the ease of expanding and repairing my ZFS pool has made replacing hardware less time consuming, and has significantly lowered the performance hit while repairing the 'array'. Replacing a hard drive was dead simple with ZFS, and not nearly as nerve racking as the times I had to do so with my MDADM array. Additionally, I was still able to pull ~30MB/sec off the drives over SMB shares while the array was rebuilding. Writes also were similar over the network. Raw internal performance saw a significant hit, but moving things between ZFS file systems isn't something that needs to be done while rebuilding; using the media content is for my household.
Everything is running over Gigabit on cat5e with one Linksys 610N running DDWRT acting as a gigabit switch in my 'server room' (an uninsulated sunroom that's too hot to use in the summer and too cold to use in the winter), one crappy D-Link 5 port Gb switch , one Linksys e4200 acting as an AP and main switch, and an old Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT as my router and firewall. Recabling to Cat6 is extra expense for no practical gain. You're going to need it when you upgrade to 10GigE, but that's a few years away. By the time you start using 10GigE, Cat6 will be as cheap as 5E is now, and you still may not even see significant need to move to it.
Hardware wise, I'm running a system based on this motherboard, with 8GB RAM, this NIC, and this SATA controller, with a 80+Platinum certified power supply that I can't find a link to right now.
Solaris is installed on a Intel 320 80GB SSD, with 8GB dedicated as log space for my ZFS pool, and 40GB dedicated for cache space. I have one ZFS pool made up of two RAIDZ1 arrays. The first array is made up of 4 2TB WD Caviar Black (WD2001FASS) drives, and is attached to the SATA ports on my motherboard. The second array is made of 4 1TB WD Green drives attached to the LSI card.
Internal file moves average out at around 250MB sec for anything under 2GB, 800MB/sec for files larger than between 2GB and 7GB, and about 400MB/sec for anything over 7GB. Network writes are about 80MB/sec between servers, and about 40 max from elsewhere. which I attribute to the D-Link. Reads are also around 80MB/sec. I've been able to run 4 simultaneous 1080P streams without anyone complaining about stuttering, or excessive buffering at the start.
The system idles at around 40Watts, and under load pulls about 100. These numbers may be way off, because I honestly have no idea about how electricity
Most users don't have any problems with memory usage, don't care about how the footprint compares with this or that version of chrome etc.
Most users don't care about how the memory footprint compares, but they do care that "when Firefox is like open and stuff, everything else is kinda like I dunno slower and stuff, so I switched to Chrome cause you said it was fast. Now my whole computer is faster!"
Apparently, my comment was too subtle. The increases in performance and stability going from CM7.1 to CM9A11 is night and day. ICS adds boatloads of paint, and a huge helping of new features and useful improvements in UI and system management. Additionally, battery life on my Nexus S has gone from about 10 hours max to 18.
Which is why most chronic marijuana users don't continually smoke joints. Have you seen some of the gadgets that are produced to ease the inhalation of marijuana? I think you'd be hard pressed to find a chronic user that only, or even mostly, smoked joints.
Yes, and look at the consequences of prohibition and the war on drugs, large organized gangs making huge amounts of money, and a prolonged violent street war that has claimed thousands of lives.
Legalizing it would cut almost the entire criminal element out of it, while creating a huge spending cut, and a huge income boost.
Everything on the Marijuana is bad list is probably doubly applicable to alcohol. Cigarettes, aside from the cognitive impairment, are infinitely worse than smoking pot is for you.
Regulate and tax it like cigarettes and booze. It's really not that complicated.
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That's the one thing I miss about my iPhone/iTunes. I want to have them update by exactly those two things!
There's nothing on Android that matches it. I'm writing a little Python app that tracks the accessed time and uses that to guess, but it's marginally effective at best.
Actually, lots of apps are now getting data synced with Google, so it is happening, but not as completely as it does with iCloud. It is free though.
Things like browser history and cookies are synced across not only devices, but across platforms. I can load chrome on any device and have everything (including open tabs) sync to my phone.
I will give you the Angry Birds level thing though, I haven't started that game again since I lost the data the first time.
I take it you've not used Windows 8?
The UI differences are as follows:
Aero theme is now square instead of rounded
Start menu has become a start screen
Shutdown options are now from the settings menu instead of the start menu (number of clicks to shutdown/restart/sleep is the same as Vista/7; the only difference is it's on the right side of the screen instead of the left)
There's a metro app switcher on the left side
Common shortcuts are on a panel on the right side
There's a super rad right click menu where the start button used to be
After using it for two months, that's all I've got. Event logs are the same as they've been since Vista, so is the control panel.
This has been my experience as well. While trying to fix a friend's iPhone I had to install iTunes and even without my library loaded it was dog slow on an i7 with 16GB of RAM. Loading the library made it even worse. Searching through 35,000 songs on iTunes takes ~10 seconds when doing an artist query, when searching for something like "Black Flag Nervous Breakdown" (band and song/album title) it took ~20. Plus the search doesn't support operators, or didn't a year or so ago, so queries like: 'Artist:"Black Flag" Album:"Nervous Breakdown" TrackNo:12' turns up nothing. iTunes takes orders of magnitude longer to start than any other media player/library manager, and gobbles up insane resources.
Doing the same searches in Foobar2000, MediaMonkey or Winamp takes 1second and supports operators; I think even WMP supports operators now. Startup of any of those is 1-3 seconds, and their resource footprint is 1/10th of iTunes.
The ONLY thing iTunes does nicely is create smart playlists.
Wait, what now? You do realize that deleting the information from Google, from your Google dashboard actually does delete Google's data on you? It has nothing to do with browser privacy. Sign in to your Google account and you can view and edit quite a bit of what information Google keeps on you, and control (some of) the information they'll gather on you in the future.
You can view your dashboard here: https://www.google.com/dashboard/b/0/
Simply because you do not know that this feature exists, doesn't mean it does not.
Amen to that. Throwing multiple storage controllers on separate lanes would eliminate a lot of bottlenecks for me.
But I've already got Twitter to follow those types of things. Or Flickr where I can view much higher quality images. Or Facebook. Or Tumblr.
I guess I may just be social'ed out and not want to have to craft yet another list of people who make 50 boring posts for every interesting one they post. I know I'm included in that, I just don't see why I should contribute, or pay attention to even more noise.
That doesn't understand the appeal to this app. I've already got Vignette to do double the crappy hipster filtres that Instagram does; but Vignette gives me the option to customize and make my own.
The civil rights movement wasn't socialist enough. If it was you'd already have universal health care and wouldn't be arguing over if everyone having health care is a good idea or not. As someone who has lived in nations with and without universal healthcare, even with private insurance in the uncivilized nation, I can tell you that it's still a lot better to have it. The fact is countries without it, the US and the developing world, spend more on health care per person than countries that do have it. Additionally, countries with universal health care are healthier than those without it, shocking, right? Your country would be so much better off, especially the people who make up the lower and lower middle classes, if you'd just accept that it makes sense.
Energy prices DO need to skyrocket so that everything becomes more efficient. That black goo we dredge out of every available inch of land is not going to last forever. If we use half of what we do today to get the same energy out, we'll be a lot better off in the long run. The only way to get people to use less energy is by forcing them to, and the only way that's going to happen is by hitting them in the wallet.
Not only that, but this is exactly the kind of thing that people suggest as an effective solution all the time. Comments like "If they're not smart enough to encrypt their transmissions, it's their own fault for having people intercept them."
Spam will also be gone, so will passwords, cars that have to stay on the ground, studying will be replaced with instant direct to brain knowledge transfers, we'll have bases on Mars and an intergalactic cruise will set you back less than $30.
Any lock that has a key can be picked.
The real question should be "Do you want to live in a garbage coated toxin filled snowglobe?" Regardless of if climate change is happening, getting rid of dirty technology (fossil fuels) should be a priority. It's non-renewable which means sooner or later we'll need to switch away from it. It's dirty, smells bad, and destroys huge swaths of land that could be used for farming, or living in. It makes it hard to breathe in the immediate time frame and fills your body with stuff that can't possibly be good for you, look at smog/drive through NJ/blow your nose after working for a few hours at a refinery.
I can't fathom how people can deny it's happening, but in the end, it doesn't matter. All of the talk about how it's lining the pockets of people like Al Gore and how it's just a cash grab means nothing. It's either going to be the people trying to make things a bit cleaner that are making money, or the people that are stoked to keep filling the sky with stinky gasses. I for one would rather not smell diesel and burning coal everywhere I go, regardless of if one is saving and the other is damning the planet.
It just really, truly, doesn't matter if it's humans fault, or not. It doesn't even matter if we can prevent it. We can make the world a nicer place to live in by reducing pollution.
http://www.geeksphone.com/en/soporte/descargas/drivers.php#
Yes, the 2.5 year old iPhone is running an old release of iOS, with the possibility of running a crippled version of the latest iOS. Currently the 2 year old Galaxy S is running an old version of Android, and is going to get a crippled version of the latest OS in the next few months.
It's absurd to think that to get all the latest features in a device you should have to buy a new one! Why, just look at Siri! It's available on the first generation iPhone!
err.. This SATA controller. And woops on the lack of closing anchor on the OI paragraph.
I used to run Ubuntu Server with with one mdadm RAID5 array and one ZFS array using ZFS Native pool in RAIDZ1 as my file server. But I started running out of space in the RAID5 array, and was having massive problems with the ZFS pool under high IO (complete system lockups, deadlocks while flushing the write cache which killed SMB and NFS); 5Kb/sec writes and at most 5MB/sec reads after an initial 5-60 second _normal_ performance period.
I moved to OpenIndiana because I really like the long term and extensible benefits that ZFS offers, and the problems I was having seemed to only be happening to Linux users.
ZFS's built in, block-level data de-duplication means significant savings on episodic content. I'm currently running at 4% de-duplicated data. While 4% savings may not sound like much, I've got 4.5TB of TV shows that I'm storing in x264, and that yields a savings of around 100GB. I know that until recently, storage was dirt cheap, but even still, 100GB is nothing to scoff at. I've debated enabling the built-in compression, but I don't think I want to take the resource hit as my wife has recently started streaming things to her laptop while myself or our roommate are watching things on our respective computers.
Additionally, the ease of expanding and repairing my ZFS pool has made replacing hardware less time consuming, and has significantly lowered the performance hit while repairing the 'array'. Replacing a hard drive was dead simple with ZFS, and not nearly as nerve racking as the times I had to do so with my MDADM array. Additionally, I was still able to pull ~30MB/sec off the drives over SMB shares while the array was rebuilding. Writes also were similar over the network. Raw internal performance saw a significant hit, but moving things between ZFS file systems isn't something that needs to be done while rebuilding; using the media content is for my household.
Everything is running over Gigabit on cat5e with one Linksys 610N running DDWRT acting as a gigabit switch in my 'server room' (an uninsulated sunroom that's too hot to use in the summer and too cold to use in the winter), one crappy D-Link 5 port Gb switch , one Linksys e4200 acting as an AP and main switch, and an old Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT as my router and firewall. Recabling to Cat6 is extra expense for no practical gain. You're going to need it when you upgrade to 10GigE, but that's a few years away. By the time you start using 10GigE, Cat6 will be as cheap as 5E is now, and you still may not even see significant need to move to it.
Hardware wise, I'm running a system based on this motherboard, with 8GB RAM, this NIC, and this SATA controller, with a 80+Platinum certified power supply that I can't find a link to right now.
Solaris is installed on a Intel 320 80GB SSD, with 8GB dedicated as log space for my ZFS pool, and 40GB dedicated for cache space. I have one ZFS pool made up of two RAIDZ1 arrays. The first array is made up of 4 2TB WD Caviar Black (WD2001FASS) drives, and is attached to the SATA ports on my motherboard. The second array is made of 4 1TB WD Green drives attached to the LSI card.
Internal file moves average out at around 250MB sec for anything under 2GB, 800MB/sec for files larger than between 2GB and 7GB, and about 400MB/sec for anything over 7GB. Network writes are about 80MB/sec between servers, and about 40 max from elsewhere. which I attribute to the D-Link. Reads are also around 80MB/sec. I've been able to run 4 simultaneous 1080P streams without anyone complaining about stuttering, or excessive buffering at the start.
The system idles at around 40Watts, and under load pulls about 100. These numbers may be way off, because I honestly have no idea about how electricity
Most users don't have any problems with memory usage, don't care about how the footprint compares with this or that version of chrome etc.
Most users don't care about how the memory footprint compares, but they do care that "when Firefox is like open and stuff, everything else is kinda like I dunno slower and stuff, so I switched to Chrome cause you said it was fast. Now my whole computer is faster!"
Bah, forgot to log in. Shouldn't have been AC.
+5 funny for cosmonaut mondegreen.
Apparently, my comment was too subtle. The increases in performance and stability going from CM7.1 to CM9A11 is night and day. ICS adds boatloads of paint, and a huge helping of new features and useful improvements in UI and system management. Additionally, battery life on my Nexus S has gone from about 10 hours max to 18.
Can't wait to see the official OTA.
Honestly, I'm still on Éclair for that same reason, I don't see any reason to move past it.
Or Canada. It's pretty much UK and US, as far as I know.
Which is why most chronic marijuana users don't continually smoke joints. Have you seen some of the gadgets that are produced to ease the inhalation of marijuana? I think you'd be hard pressed to find a chronic user that only, or even mostly, smoked joints.
On a less glib note, the amount of studies that show the complete opposite to be true are far more prevalent.While I'm hesitant to link a forum post I found through a Google search, this is extremely well sourced and articulated. http://www.marijuana.com/medicinal-marijuana/11006-marijuana-vs-tobacco-tars-not-so-bad.html
Yes, and look at the consequences of prohibition and the war on drugs, large organized gangs making huge amounts of money, and a prolonged violent street war that has claimed thousands of lives.
Legalizing it would cut almost the entire criminal element out of it, while creating a huge spending cut, and a huge income boost.
Everything on the Marijuana is bad list is probably doubly applicable to alcohol. Cigarettes, aside from the cognitive impairment, are infinitely worse than smoking pot is for you.
Regulate and tax it like cigarettes and booze. It's really not that complicated.