And, amusingly enough, since it takes battery life to make this work (power the speakers and read the accelerometers), people would be constantly shaking their phone to figure out the remaining battery life, and depleting the battery. Using more energy to know if you have killed the batteries yet seems somehow backwards to me.
Well, all we need now is a mechanism like the one in shake-rechargeable flashlights...
It sounds fun, but I don't understand how shaking a phone is functionally superior to simply looking at the screen to gauge battery life or messages. Not to mention shaking your expensive mobile device around may not be the smartest idea. Flying wiimotes, anyone?
Apart from the things some people already mentioned, this seems to be a very nice feature for, say, blind users.
Neo1973 is supposed to get a coulomb counter as well as accelerometres.
So I guess I'll be able to slosh the phone, not only swing it around MacSabre style... If that thing is half as great as it sounds, it'll be my favourite toy.
Actually, I once encountered a similar problem with an XP network - some computers could see some of the other computers and printers, but not all the same ones and not bi-directionally.
However, the whole network was a shambles, done by FSM-knows-who, so I just gave up and let them find another idiot to repair it (I was supposed to repair it, but not touch the server. Good luck with that, guys.)
You might as well be implying the answer to the question "how do you put a giraffe in a refrigerator?" with "open the refrigerator door, put the giraffe in, close the door."
That wouldn't work anyway.
You need to take the elephant out of the refridgerator before putting the giraffe in.
I think the GP was trying to make a joke about the 24 hours plus install times for Gentoo.:)
Sure it takes long but once its done its absolutely fantastic.
And Gentoo is the OS that practically needs no re-installing: they do have profile versions, but nothing like distro-upgrade.
You are reading private e-mail between your bosses and you are complaining about *their* ethics? It sounds like you guys deserved each other. There is no possible technical justification for reading private mail as a sysadmin. At most, you might need to see the headers to debug routing/spamfilter issues.
Wait, private mail on a business server?
If you as an employee do it, don't they sanction you?
No, that was business mail. And if I were a sysadmin, I'd have a filter sending me a copy of every single mail concerning my job, i.e. about software licences etc. If something's my job and my responsibility, I can't claim ignorance.
Basically, Linux could be the undisputed ultimate gamers platform, but I don't see why that would translate to "Linux victory over Windows" unless you have a significantly inflated sense of the importance / population % of gamers.
The point is, children are gamers; they spend quite a lot of time gaming and are the ones who'll do all kinds of stuff to get an additional FPS, especially if it's free.
Thet's why GP mentioned the ten-year frame: while the children's parents would still use Windows for work, the kids would play on Linux. And then they'd do other stuff on Linux as well.
Ten years later, former children would be quite used to Linux, probably even defaulting to it.
So in OS selection, just like in religion, just give me a child before he is eight...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheap
2. costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap.
4. of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.
Neither of those 2 definitions mean anything even close to 'inexpensive', and either of them could apply to this situation. Stop and look it up before you go grammar nazi'ing.
As the poster above said, you conveniently ignored the very first meaning.
I'll comment on the Grammar Nazi bit, though: this has absolutely nothing to do with grammar, so your point is... unclear.
I was merely noting the semantic redundancy.
So why don't you go check what the name means before you call me it. K?
Yeah but according to the cult of the FSM pirates are cool and the lack of them is causing global warming. They're just being pirates in order to combat global warming!
Actually, according to the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, creationists are a fruit of FSM's bizzare sense of humor. Or, to put it more bluntly, a sick joke.
Seriously, WTF? How does a Playstation have any benefits over other smaller, cheaper, lighter computer hardware for guiding missiles? How does cheap computer hardware have any benefits at all when you don't have the software to run on it? How would hardware and software have any benefits at all when you don't have any guided missiles in the first place, and if some rogue state (or the CIA, depending on whose side you're on) wanted to supply you with them, they could just supply you with guidance systems at the same time?!
You think too much.
Open Source Warfare is the way hackers can build their own, Linux-powered missile guidance systems, and with Compiz Fusion, you get not only spiffy 3D graphics, but also a Compiz Fusion Warhead.
And since OpenMoko promotes open hardware, open warheads are just a step away.
However, there is no chemical weaponry to be assembled in the Open Source world[1] - with all those crippled chemistry sets, we'll just have to settle for biological weaponry.
[1]oops: I'd initially spelled it Opwn Source... Freudian slip?
No, they are obviously not cheap as in "off the shelf hardware I assembled in my spare time".
Such a desktop will almost always be far cheaper than a Mac.
However, I bought a MacBook Pro in July.
I'd intended to buy a ThinkPad, but the model with FreeDOS sold out, so I started looking into alternatives.
MacBook Pro was actually in the same price range, with similar characteristics and a shiny OS to boot.
Therefore, it was far cheaper than I'd perceived it.
Admittedly, MacBook Pro isn't exactly the cheapest laptop in the market either - but I find that it's well worth the money.
To me, that equals 'cheap'; I bought it now and, unless I break it, I won't have to buy a new one for quite some time.
When I see some of my friends with Vista laptops... well, they're going to buy another one sooner. Or they'll suffer for longer.
Well, that just means Linux is growing so fast that although Novell keeps gaining new customers, several other distros are growing even faster than that.
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Well, all we need now is a mechanism like the one in shake-rechargeable flashlights...
Apart from the things some people already mentioned, this seems to be a very nice feature for, say, blind users.
Neo1973 is supposed to get a coulomb counter as well as accelerometres.
So I guess I'll be able to slosh the phone, not only swing it around MacSabre style... If that thing is half as great as it sounds, it'll be my favourite toy.
And I might even phone someone from time to time.
Actually, I once encountered a similar problem with an XP network - some computers could see some of the other computers and printers, but not all the same ones and not bi-directionally.
However, the whole network was a shambles, done by FSM-knows-who, so I just gave up and let them find another idiot to repair it (I was supposed to repair it, but not touch the server. Good luck with that, guys.)
That wouldn't work anyway.
You need to take the elephant out of the refridgerator before putting the giraffe in.
Sure it takes long but once its done its absolutely fantastic.
And Gentoo is the OS that practically needs no re-installing: they do have profile versions, but nothing like distro-upgrade.
New stuff just... emerges.
OK, I'm a moron.
Though the fact that I should have gone to sleep long ago may account for a part of that.
OK, the third occurrence of this post in a single thread. Is it a new /. troll? And if so, isn't it a tad short?
-1, Offtopic. We were talking about Windows.
Wait, private mail on a business server?
If you as an employee do it, don't they sanction you?
No, that was business mail. And if I were a sysadmin, I'd have a filter sending me a copy of every single mail concerning my job, i.e. about software licences etc. If something's my job and my responsibility, I can't claim ignorance.
Uh-oh... are we gonna see an AltarBoy distro of Linux next?
O.o
Would that be the one that runs on GameBoy?
The point is, children are gamers; they spend quite a lot of time gaming and are the ones who'll do all kinds of stuff to get an additional FPS, especially if it's free.
Thet's why GP mentioned the ten-year frame: while the children's parents would still use Windows for work, the kids would play on Linux. And then they'd do other stuff on Linux as well.
Ten years later, former children would be quite used to Linux, probably even defaulting to it.
So in OS selection, just like in religion, just give me a child before he is eight...
Lighten up. Were you that infallible, you'd be ruling the world right now.
In order to preserve secrecy, I can neither confirm nor deny this.
Does someone calling you a sick joke make for neutral comment?
Creationists should be complimented if a sick joke is all I call them.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheap
2. costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap.
4. of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.
Neither of those 2 definitions mean anything even close to 'inexpensive', and either of them could apply to this situation. Stop and look it up before you go grammar nazi'ing.
As the poster above said, you conveniently ignored the very first meaning.
I'll comment on the Grammar Nazi bit, though: this has absolutely nothing to do with grammar, so your point is... unclear.
I was merely noting the semantic redundancy.
So why don't you go check what the name means before you call me it. K?
Actually, according to the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, creationists are a fruit of FSM's bizzare sense of humor. Or, to put it more bluntly, a sick joke.
Let's see...
The real problem with expending your military might in an endless fight is the same as abusing antibiotics.and
For what?I'd agree the post sounds like rambling, but I'd say it's the sentences between these two make it seem so.
Wow.
I didn't know veterinarians were so militant.
Though I can see the rationale... if you're going to spay (or bathe) a cat, you'd better be learned in the arts of war.
You think too much.
Open Source Warfare is the way hackers can build their own, Linux-powered missile guidance systems, and with Compiz Fusion, you get not only spiffy 3D graphics, but also a Compiz Fusion Warhead.
And since OpenMoko promotes open hardware, open warheads are just a step away.
However, there is no chemical weaponry to be assembled in the Open Source world[1] - with all those crippled chemistry sets, we'll just have to settle for biological weaponry.
[1]oops: I'd initially spelled it Opwn Source... Freudian slip?
I'd thought guerrilla wasn't exactly a new concept...
/* BTW inexpensive == cheap */
That's not a bug. It's a feature.
OS X even allows you to exposé the sarcasm...</badpun>
Well, actually... yes, I rather think I do.
No, they are obviously not cheap as in "off the shelf hardware I assembled in my spare time".
Such a desktop will almost always be far cheaper than a Mac.
However, I bought a MacBook Pro in July.
I'd intended to buy a ThinkPad, but the model with FreeDOS sold out, so I started looking into alternatives.
MacBook Pro was actually in the same price range, with similar characteristics and a shiny OS to boot.
Therefore, it was far cheaper than I'd perceived it.
Admittedly, MacBook Pro isn't exactly the cheapest laptop in the market either - but I find that it's well worth the money.
To me, that equals 'cheap'; I bought it now and, unless I break it, I won't have to buy a new one for quite some time.
When I see some of my friends with Vista laptops... well, they're going to buy another one sooner. Or they'll suffer for longer.
Well, that just means Linux is growing so fast that although Novell keeps gaining new customers, several other distros are growing even faster than that.
If I correct this 1338 into 1337, am I a grammar Nazi?
Quite.
In fact, all reptile aliens are known to use that same defense.
So... what are you hiding?