- NVidia drivers seem to sometimes flicker the screen for some reason. But then I reboot and t goes away. Then the next day it is back. Not sure what is going on with that.
- iwl3945 driver does not resume properly after laptop suspend, about 50% of the time. If you encounter this, you have to do this sequence I have figured out with much experimenting
- rmmod iwl3945 - suspend again - resume again - modprobe iwl3945
This seems to reset the card enough to fix the issue.
The thing has been on the market all of 1-2 months. I don't see how it has even "proven" itself to be long-term viable, let alone anything about the tablet industry.
I can buy black ink refills at the local dollar store and the quality output from them is identical to the $20 replacement cartridges at Staples - so don't go telling me the cost of ink is due to the cost of the technology - we all know it is because of the way printers are soled, via the Gilette model - even Kodak has confirmed that and released their printer line that costs more at the outset but is very cheap to buy ink for.
The size and scale of India's election makes attempts at manipulating the election at the voting machine level very difficult. Any legit attack would have to be done at the back-end altering massive numbers of votes.
The fine should be the greater of $10,000 or *two* times whatever profits are incurred by the patent. Having a $100 fine for crappy patents is not enough to encourage *anyone* to not file them.
many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into Android
So you are saying that every smartphone in the market will not have the exact same UI?
Say it ain't so!
Why does a teenager who is concerned with facebook and twitter have to necessarily want the same user experience as the corperate employee who is more worried about Outlook sync and calendering?
Having a diverse platform ecology, while still maintaining a consistant underlying architecture to enable a vast application ecosystem, is the main strength of the Android platform (especially compared to the iPhone or Windows Mobile), it is not a weakness.
I take it you have never lived in Western Europe... where it is standard to have university payed for, 6-8 weeks mandatory vacation, national strong unions, free health care, and a social safety net large enough to hold a blue wale if you do in fact get fired.
Google Groups *is* Usenet. They are just another Usenet peer. And their interface and searchability makes usenet more useable than any standalone client I have ever used.
If a game is a downloaded and bought online, how come I can't say, pay $5 for the first level, and if I like it, pay another $5 for the next level, etc?
Microsoft does not have to "pump" windows mobile because, despite all the iPhone hype, the number of Windows Mobile smartphones is only slightly behind the number of iPhones (http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/pages/what-were-top-smartphone-operating-systems-october-numbers)- and the number of windows mobile applications vastly outnumbers the number of iPhone applications (by about 10 times I wager)
The problem with this is you will get on the same sex offender list for raping someone with a baseball bat, as you will for peeing in public after a long night at the pub, or having sex with your 16 year old girlfriend when you are 18.
If the list was somehow publicly audited it would not be such an issue.
What is the logic of having the buttons on the left? The vast majority of users are right handed, and mouse right handed. Thus, the scrollbar is on the right side, and an idle mouse cursor is on the right side. Therefore, widnow controls should be ont he right side, where possible. Putting it on the left for no good reason* just makes you have to mouse farther to accomplish the same task.
* And no, "because Mac does it" is not a good reason.
The first time someone buys a brand new iPad (or any other tablet) and sits down in front of his TV with it, and surfs the web, he will be happy.
The first time he trys to reply to an email, reply to a MSN or iChat message, he will curse and swear at the thing, and will probably shelve it within a week.
See, people keep going on about how the tablet is ideal for the web. They conveniently forget that today, the web is *everything you do on the PC* - and the tablet is *not* ideal for everything, namely, it is very sub-par for anything that involves any amount of typing whatsoever.
Man have you ever been brainwashed by the masses. Contrary to popular American belief, the US embargo pretty much does nothing to Cuba, because no other country in the world respects it. Cuba has cell phones and Internet, among pretty much anything else you can dream up.
How many times have you ever heard of a cracker breaking a system nowadays because the RNG was not sufficiently random???
Yes i know there have been instances where a crack was due to TOTAL LACK of an RNG (as in, the RNG was not implemented properly), but due to a properly implemented RNG with just a lack of entropy? Not that I recall.
I guess I don't get why there is a market large enough for this to warrant the research. There are several hardware-based RNGs that guarantee as close to "true randomness" as is possible by modern physics, and if you wanted true randomness, you would use one of those, not this half measure.
For me, my/dev/random based off my network traffic and mouse and keyboard and HD is good enough, thanks. Color me unconcerned.
People have a lot of misconceptions on the 20% time from Google.
- The 20% is not time to do whatever the heck you want. Basically it is time to spend on things that the company has not specifically directed you to work on. You have to justify the time with (what I believe are monthly( reports with your peers and supervisors on what you were working on.
- The project is not necessarily anything that would ever be customer facing. I would wager, given the type of employee Google hires, most of them would be actually internally directed projects - optimizations to search algorithms, research into new computer learning techniques or advertising techniques, improvements to storage mechanisms, etc. For all you know, nearly all 20% projects actually get used - only thing is only a small number of them are visible to end users.
What I want to know is why the OP and other privacy nuts care so much if AT&T knows what you watch on TV. Who gives a crap?
All 99.99% of data mining is used for is to target advertising to groups. Do you consider yourself a mindless zombie that buys anything advertised to him? No? Then what do you care what advertising is shoved down your pipe?
Frankly I could give two craps what ads they think may or may not appeal to me, because none of them will sway my opinion more than my own research. As such, I could also give two craps if they want to track my habits to kingdom come to feed me such ads.
Really, the behavior of your mundane day to day life is of no value to anyone but advertisers. And unless you let those ads run your life, you should not let you tinfoil hat paranoia do it either.
I don't know where you browse the web, but where I do (ie, the Internet), typing is a pretty big requirement.
In fact I find it pretty ironic you made such a big comment on the web of all places. How much longer do you think it would have taken you to type that on the iPad? 5 times? 10 times? 30 times?
People seem to think the web is all move and click. Nowadays people do everything on the web, including email, blogging, commenting. Doing any of these things with a touchscreen device is going to be an enormous PITA.
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If you don't like the terms, then don't watch the movie, simple as that.
You don't have some fundamental human right to the latest hollywood blockbuster.
If you don't like the price of a book, that doesn't mean you get to take it up to the store photocopier and make a copy. What is the difference here?
- NVidia drivers seem to sometimes flicker the screen for some reason. But then I reboot and t goes away. Then the next day it is back. Not sure what is going on with that.
- iwl3945 driver does not resume properly after laptop suspend, about 50% of the time. If you encounter this, you have to do this sequence I have figured out with much experimenting
- rmmod iwl3945
- suspend again
- resume again
- modprobe iwl3945
This seems to reset the card enough to fix the issue.
The thing has been on the market all of 1-2 months. I don't see how it has even "proven" itself to be long-term viable, let alone anything about the tablet industry.
I can buy black ink refills at the local dollar store and the quality output from them is identical to the $20 replacement cartridges at Staples - so don't go telling me the cost of ink is due to the cost of the technology - we all know it is because of the way printers are soled, via the Gilette model - even Kodak has confirmed that and released their printer line that costs more at the outset but is very cheap to buy ink for.
So, you're saying you blame the drop in sales on Jesus?
For shame!
The size and scale of India's election makes attempts at manipulating the election at the voting machine level very difficult. Any legit attack would have to be done at the back-end altering massive numbers of votes.
The fine should be the greater of $10,000 or *two* times whatever profits are incurred by the patent. Having a $100 fine for crappy patents is not enough to encourage *anyone* to not file them.
many OHA members are developing proprietary user experiences, which they are not contributing back into Android
So you are saying that every smartphone in the market will not have the exact same UI?
Say it ain't so!
Why does a teenager who is concerned with facebook and twitter have to necessarily want the same user experience as the corperate employee who is more worried about Outlook sync and calendering?
Having a diverse platform ecology, while still maintaining a consistant underlying architecture to enable a vast application ecosystem, is the main strength of the Android platform (especially compared to the iPhone or Windows Mobile), it is not a weakness.
I take it you have never lived in Western Europe... where it is standard to have university payed for, 6-8 weeks mandatory vacation, national strong unions, free health care, and a social safety net large enough to hold a blue wale if you do in fact get fired.
Google Groups *is* Usenet. They are just another Usenet peer. And their interface and searchability makes usenet more useable than any standalone client I have ever used.
If a game is a downloaded and bought online, how come I can't say, pay $5 for the first level, and if I like it, pay another $5 for the next level, etc?
Microsoft does not have to "pump" windows mobile because, despite all the iPhone hype, the number of Windows Mobile smartphones is only slightly behind the number of iPhones (http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/pages/what-were-top-smartphone-operating-systems-october-numbers)- and the number of windows mobile applications vastly outnumbers the number of iPhone applications (by about 10 times I wager)
The problem with this is you will get on the same sex offender list for raping someone with a baseball bat, as you will for peeing in public after a long night at the pub, or having sex with your 16 year old girlfriend when you are 18.
If the list was somehow publicly audited it would not be such an issue.
Why not? Microsoft seems to be doing (extremely well) with XBox Live, which costs $60 / year. The vast majority of games played on it are shooters.
Why couldn't a Half-Life 2 command a $5 / year annual fee to play on the servers?
I hope you realize that the OP does not own theoatmeal.com - give me a break.
What is the logic of having the buttons on the left? The vast majority of users are right handed, and mouse right handed. Thus, the scrollbar is on the right side, and an idle mouse cursor is on the right side. Therefore, widnow controls should be ont he right side, where possible. Putting it on the left for no good reason* just makes you have to mouse farther to accomplish the same task.
* And no, "because Mac does it" is not a good reason.
The first time someone buys a brand new iPad (or any other tablet) and sits down in front of his TV with it, and surfs the web, he will be happy.
The first time he trys to reply to an email, reply to a MSN or iChat message, he will curse and swear at the thing, and will probably shelve it within a week.
See, people keep going on about how the tablet is ideal for the web. They conveniently forget that today, the web is *everything you do on the PC* - and the tablet is *not* ideal for everything, namely, it is very sub-par for anything that involves any amount of typing whatsoever.
Can someone please explain to me what Microsoft has to gain by dumping more and more money into Trident?
Why don't they just adopt WebKit, and add ActiveX support to it?
Man have you ever been brainwashed by the masses. Contrary to popular American belief, the US embargo pretty much does nothing to Cuba, because no other country in the world respects it. Cuba has cell phones and Internet, among pretty much anything else you can dream up.
Oh, and better health care to boot.
How many times have you ever heard of a cracker breaking a system nowadays because the RNG was not sufficiently random???
Yes i know there have been instances where a crack was due to TOTAL LACK of an RNG (as in, the RNG was not implemented properly), but due to a properly implemented RNG with just a lack of entropy? Not that I recall.
I guess I don't get why there is a market large enough for this to warrant the research. There are several hardware-based RNGs that guarantee as close to "true randomness" as is possible by modern physics, and if you wanted true randomness, you would use one of those, not this half measure.
For me, my /dev/random based off my network traffic and mouse and keyboard and HD is good enough, thanks. Color me unconcerned.
People have a lot of misconceptions on the 20% time from Google.
- The 20% is not time to do whatever the heck you want. Basically it is time to spend on things that the company has not specifically directed you to work on. You have to justify the time with (what I believe are monthly( reports with your peers and supervisors on what you were working on.
- The project is not necessarily anything that would ever be customer facing. I would wager, given the type of employee Google hires, most of them would be actually internally directed projects - optimizations to search algorithms, research into new computer learning techniques or advertising techniques, improvements to storage mechanisms, etc. For all you know, nearly all 20% projects actually get used - only thing is only a small number of them are visible to end users.
Every newspaper has stuff like that in OP-Ed.
The OP is trying to point out that this stuff needs to migrate out of Op-Ed and into the paper itself, instead of just re-publishing AP content.
What I want to know is why the OP and other privacy nuts care so much if AT&T knows what you watch on TV. Who gives a crap?
All 99.99% of data mining is used for is to target advertising to groups. Do you consider yourself a mindless zombie that buys anything advertised to him? No? Then what do you care what advertising is shoved down your pipe?
Frankly I could give two craps what ads they think may or may not appeal to me, because none of them will sway my opinion more than my own research. As such, I could also give two craps if they want to track my habits to kingdom come to feed me such ads.
Really, the behavior of your mundane day to day life is of no value to anyone but advertisers. And unless you let those ads run your life, you should not let you tinfoil hat paranoia do it either.
I don't know where you browse the web, but where I do (ie, the Internet), typing is a pretty big requirement.
In fact I find it pretty ironic you made such a big comment on the web of all places. How much longer do you think it would have taken you to type that on the iPad? 5 times? 10 times? 30 times?
People seem to think the web is all move and click. Nowadays people do everything on the web, including email, blogging, commenting. Doing any of these things with a touchscreen device is going to be an enormous PITA.
To be pedantic, there is actually no difference between a for loop with no incremental operator, and a while loop.
IE, this:
for( ; blah ; ) { // do stuff
blah = false;
}
Is the same as this:
while( blah ) { //do stuff
blah = false;
}
And this:
for( bool blah = true; blah ; ) { // do stuff
blah = false;
}
Is the same as this:
do { //do stuff
blah = false;
} while (blah);
Any differences are semantic and will be optimized away by the compiler.