I live in the middle of the Canadian shield. About the only natural disaster we see is the occasional small tornado. No floods, no earthquakes, no hurricanes. Nothing large-scale.
WebOS isn't that bad. With the addition of preware and kalemsoft media player, it provides decent web browsing, video playback, kindle client, VPN suport, web proxy support, and an xterm with a shell, along with a reasonable selection of games. That's like 95% of my usage right there.
HP just shipped an over-the-air update to WebOS 3.0.4 today. Long-term will be another story though...and I'll likely move to Android when ICS becomes available.
You discover that the lock on your apartment door is broken, so you check your neighbour and his is broken too, then you check everyone on the hallway and find out that they're all unlocked because the locks are broken, so you report it to the landlord.
Would you expect to be sued for trespassing on all of your neighbours?
When the corporate exchange server config needs a tweak to make it work better with firefox, or the routes advertised by the VPN are a bit excessive (our VPN routes 1.0.0.0/8, 172.0.0.0/8, and 10.0.0.0/8 via the VPN...joy), or the corporate VOIP client is acting up, or the VM you've been assigned is running out of storage space, then you still need some way to report problems and get them dealt with.
That said, as a teleworker I admin my own linux box because the corporate IT people don't handle mobile linux users (not enough of us to bother with).
While not everyone needs a TV, they're optimised for different things. My local cable company's standard def boxes don't have HDMI out, only component/composite. A lot of my gear is old enough that it doesn't do HDMI. My computer monitor doesn't have output ports like a TV does. My monitor has a much higher pixel density, but would suck for watching a movie with a bunch of other people.
This is why you have a duplicate data center in another city that is kept in standby and is just sitting there ready to take over. (Actually, you normally have a mix of services active at either location.)
The company I work for makes telecom equipment, and supporting geo redundancy is a fairly key requirement for some major customers.
Why is this valuable? The kernel that runs the Thrive is Linux, but that's almost completely irrelevant. For underlying OS code, I'm going to prefer that which does the job best. That might be Linux, or it might be something else. "It's Linux," smacks of the same kind of kool-aid drinking of which Apple users are so often accused.
It's valuable because the kernel hacking skills from my day job are directly transferrable, I can recompile a kernel to add new functionality, tweak the I/O scheduler, adjust the cpu frequency, enable support for nonstandard input devices, start up ssh daemons allowing me to "scp" stuff from my laptop to my tablet, get a shell prompt on the tablet itself, mount my flash card reader and back up images from my camera, etc. Generally it's valuable because it lets me do things the manufacturer never intended or didn't think was worth the hassle to support.
The current speculation is that the folks at Qualcomm have been using the Touchpad as a reference design as it uses their CPU, and have been working on Android support internally.
The suspicion is that some Touchpads made it out into the wild with this testing version of Android installed.
When I was getting a new furnace (several thousand dollars) I got a half dozen bids, threw out the ones that seemed abnormally high or low, then evaluated the rest. Usually the lowest bidder is low for a reason. (Although to be fair, sometimes they're just more efficient.)
The cooking utensil link isn't very useful, however apparently the deal is that the coating is non-stick, quite hard (thus doesn't wear out like Teflon) and can handle high heat.
For instance, there's nothing keeping them from saying "streaming video via our paid app doesn't count towards your tiny data caps". This is in fact reasonable for them since it means that they don't need to increase their upstream connections.
It kind of sucks for the end user though since if everyone in a given area does it the effect is chilling.
Realistically, the cable company is not going to want to keep overall revenues the same. So they'll break out the expensive channels and charge slightly more than they need to for those people who really want them, and they'll make things slightly cheaper for the rest who don't. So people with the bare minimum may be able to save some money, but some people will end up paying quite a bit more. On average, people will likely end up paying slightly more--because realistically any change is an opportunity for the cable company to make more money and try to hide it in the changes.
One of the best I ever had was a nice juicy ground chuck patty with swiss cheese, then a slab of ham on top then a ring of pineapple, then the usual lettuce/tomato/etc. Messy, but *really* good.
Most of their bookshelves and cabinets and many of their dressers and drawers are particleboard. The extra-thick bookshelf components are actually cardboard honeycomb with laminate.
Yes, there are a selection of products made of solid wood, mostly tables, chairs, and benches. (i.e. stuff that sees harder use) Most of the stained stuff is pine, which dents if you look at it funny. Some of it is birch/beech/oak, which can be decent.
Let's be realistic. Ikea furniture is designed to be disposable. It's not going to be around two hundred years from now. I agree with you though that there is other stuff that is even worse.
If you want to see high quality flat-pack furniture, check out http://www.greendesigns.com/ No, I don't own any of their stuff or work for them. Yes, you'll pay $2000 for a coffee table. But it's solid cherry, made in the USA, with no metal fasteners whatsoever. Everything is sliding dovetails.
Many places have no electronic medical records whatsoever. So you're looking at converting from handwritten notes and paper files to networked computers. That means you need to pay for the computers, the network, the servers, the database, the training, and all the zillions of customizations for every different hospital that has different procedures.
Our local health district (Saskatoon, in Canada) is just now in the process of converting to electronic records.
My router is in my basement and I can reliably get a perfectly fine signal on my main floor 40 feet away. The 2.4GHz signal is stronger, but on 5GHz I can use double-wide channels.
The only thing stopping a smartphone or tablet from running FOLD@home is someone writing the code for it, same as any other computing device.
An android (or webos, or meego) device is a full Linux system! How can you possibly say it's not a computer? There are calculator emulator apps that run on smartphones...do you see how ludicrous your position is?
The HP touchpad has an inductive charger that doubles as an adjustable-angle stand. It also has a bluetooth keyboard. As for storage, just use a NAS over the wireless link.
I had one screener temporarily blind himself with my high-powered external camera flash. He wanted to know how to test it, so I showed him the button to push. Didn't expect him to stare right into it while testing. Was kind of funny, actually.
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I live in the middle of the Canadian shield. About the only natural disaster we see is the occasional small tornado. No floods, no earthquakes, no hurricanes. Nothing large-scale.
WebOS isn't that bad. With the addition of preware and kalemsoft media player, it provides decent web browsing, video playback, kindle client, VPN suport, web proxy support, and an xterm with a shell, along with a reasonable selection of games. That's like 95% of my usage right there.
HP just shipped an over-the-air update to WebOS 3.0.4 today. Long-term will be another story though...and I'll likely move to Android when ICS becomes available.
You discover that the lock on your apartment door is broken, so you check your neighbour and his is broken too, then you check everyone on the hallway and find out that they're all unlocked because the locks are broken, so you report it to the landlord.
Would you expect to be sued for trespassing on all of your neighbours?
When the corporate exchange server config needs a tweak to make it work better with firefox, or the routes advertised by the VPN are a bit excessive (our VPN routes 1.0.0.0/8, 172.0.0.0/8, and 10.0.0.0/8 via the VPN...joy), or the corporate VOIP client is acting up, or the VM you've been assigned is running out of storage space, then you still need some way to report problems and get them dealt with.
That said, as a teleworker I admin my own linux box because the corporate IT people don't handle mobile linux users (not enough of us to bother with).
While not everyone needs a TV, they're optimised for different things. My local cable company's standard def boxes don't have HDMI out, only component/composite. A lot of my gear is old enough that it doesn't do HDMI. My computer monitor doesn't have output ports like a TV does. My monitor has a much higher pixel density, but would suck for watching a movie with a bunch of other people.
This is why you have a duplicate data center in another city that is kept in standby and is just sitting there ready to take over. (Actually, you normally have a mix of services active at either location.)
The company I work for makes telecom equipment, and supporting geo redundancy is a fairly key requirement for some major customers.
It's Linux.
Why is this valuable? The kernel that runs the Thrive is Linux, but that's almost completely irrelevant. For underlying OS code, I'm going to prefer that which does the job best. That might be Linux, or it might be something else. "It's Linux," smacks of the same kind of kool-aid drinking of which Apple users are so often accused.
It's valuable because the kernel hacking skills from my day job are directly transferrable, I can recompile a kernel to add new functionality, tweak the I/O scheduler, adjust the cpu frequency, enable support for nonstandard input devices, start up ssh daemons allowing me to "scp" stuff from my laptop to my tablet, get a shell prompt on the tablet itself, mount my flash card reader and back up images from my camera, etc. Generally it's valuable because it lets me do things the manufacturer never intended or didn't think was worth the hassle to support.
If the BIOS reports ASPM it'll be used. If it doesn't, then Linux can't assume that it works.
As long as we have spinning platter drives, tape drives, etc. there will still be the concept of permanent files on disks.
Besides, I think the concept of files still has benefits for passing self-contained discrete chunks of data around between devices.
The current speculation is that the folks at Qualcomm have been using the Touchpad as a reference design as it uses their CPU, and have been working on Android support internally.
The suspicion is that some Touchpads made it out into the wild with this testing version of Android installed.
When I was getting a new furnace (several thousand dollars) I got a half dozen bids, threw out the ones that seemed abnormally high or low, then evaluated the rest. Usually the lowest bidder is low for a reason. (Although to be fair, sometimes they're just more efficient.)
The cooking utensil link isn't very useful, however apparently the deal is that the coating is non-stick, quite hard (thus doesn't wear out like Teflon) and can handle high heat.
For instance, there's nothing keeping them from saying "streaming video via our paid app doesn't count towards your tiny data caps". This is in fact reasonable for them since it means that they don't need to increase their upstream connections.
It kind of sucks for the end user though since if everyone in a given area does it the effect is chilling.
Realistically, the cable company is not going to want to keep overall revenues the same. So they'll break out the expensive channels and charge slightly more than they need to for those people who really want them, and they'll make things slightly cheaper for the rest who don't. So people with the bare minimum may be able to save some money, but some people will end up paying quite a bit more. On average, people will likely end up paying slightly more--because realistically any change is an opportunity for the cable company to make more money and try to hide it in the changes.
One of the best I ever had was a nice juicy ground chuck patty with swiss cheese, then a slab of ham on top then a ring of pineapple, then the usual lettuce/tomato/etc. Messy, but *really* good.
Most of their bookshelves and cabinets and many of their dressers and drawers are particleboard. The extra-thick bookshelf components are actually cardboard honeycomb with laminate.
Yes, there are a selection of products made of solid wood, mostly tables, chairs, and benches. (i.e. stuff that sees harder use) Most of the stained stuff is pine, which dents if you look at it funny. Some of it is birch/beech/oak, which can be decent.
Let's be realistic. Ikea furniture is designed to be disposable. It's not going to be around two hundred years from now. I agree with you though that there is other stuff that is even worse.
If you want to see high quality flat-pack furniture, check out http://www.greendesigns.com/ No, I don't own any of their stuff or work for them. Yes, you'll pay $2000 for a coffee table. But it's solid cherry, made in the USA, with no metal fasteners whatsoever. Everything is sliding dovetails.
c has been measured very very accurately by independent teams...it's not likely to be the source of the error.
The amazing thing is that they're able to pull this out of measly twisted pair.
Many places have no electronic medical records whatsoever. So you're looking at converting from handwritten notes and paper files to networked computers. That means you need to pay for the computers, the network, the servers, the database, the training, and all the zillions of customizations for every different hospital that has different procedures.
Our local health district (Saskatoon, in Canada) is just now in the process of converting to electronic records.
My router is in my basement and I can reliably get a perfectly fine signal on my main floor 40 feet away. The 2.4GHz signal is stronger, but on 5GHz I can use double-wide channels.
I've got one, haven't had any issues. I use it on both bands, with wide channels on 5GHz.
The only thing stopping a smartphone or tablet from running FOLD@home is someone writing the code for it, same as any other computing device.
An android (or webos, or meego) device is a full Linux system! How can you possibly say it's not a computer? There are calculator emulator apps that run on smartphones...do you see how ludicrous your position is?
The HP touchpad has an inductive charger that doubles as an adjustable-angle stand. It also has a bluetooth keyboard. As for storage, just use a NAS over the wireless link.
I had one screener temporarily blind himself with my high-powered external camera flash. He wanted to know how to test it, so I showed him the button to push. Didn't expect him to stare right into it while testing. Was kind of funny, actually.