Lenovo Quality team told me that they can not release the bootloader keys because the Thinkpad Tablet has DRM software included.
Frankly that sounds reasonable to me. According to that forum post, they are offering you a replacement motherboard, wouldn't that be enough to restore the original functionality of the device?
There's probably also an extra modulation scheme to make the signal more suitable to air transport which also shuffles the bits around. Just like when you use copper, you don't want long strings of 1s and 0s but rather to keep the wire alive.
Ditto. YouTube (and areena.yle.fi (clips from Finnish national free-to-air TV)) have completely replaced my TV watching. Digging past the cat videos you can find way more interesting stuff from YouTube than from the traditional tube.
In Slashdot that argument is often morphed to "it's not stealing, because no one loses anything, and you can make unlimited copies". Which still leaves the problem, how are we then going to decide who gets the free copy and who has to pay? Because the maker of the product has to recoup the production costs somehow.
Leaks memory like a sieve. The running joke is that FF is a memory hog. The bigger problem is closing tabs doesn't restore memory!
Maybe it deliberately leaves page elements in memory cache for faster access in future and thus isn't even supposed to free all the memory used by a tab?
As a sidenote, I've been noticing an Office suite called Kingsoft Office (Android, Windows, Linux) gaining popularity lately. I wonder how far you can get with it and what is the level of compatibility.
I find your review to be flawed. You did not mention its fine bouquet of dog farts and rotten apples, or the way the aftertaste causes you to retch up your morning breakfast.
*Room laughs hysterically*
This man couldn't have said it better! Let's all just get drunk! To 1.6!
Windows people still seem to be under the impression that linux is hard. It's not like that any-more. Ubuntu and Mint are much easier, and are less bloated/expensive than Windows.
That is just not true. Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint.
It's really unprofessional to pull something like this. A few admins will laugh at it, but for those of us in Serious Business (TM) it's not very funny.
I have to agree. If I suddenly came across that logo I might think that the machine is compromised by some script kiddies.
Also freaked out a bit when GROMACS (molecular dynamics package used by Folding@Home) started to display those random "Good ROcking Metal Altar for Chronical Sinners" messages every time it started the simulation.
A few years back when I was looking for work out of college, virtually every prospective employer asked to be friended, or asked what my FB/Twitter/etc. accounts were. When I told them that I didn't bother to spill my guts online to all and sundry, the interview was terminated, and was told something along the lines of , "no FB account is like not having a phone or E-mail address, and we don't want any useless Luddites blocking progress in our company."
Instead of the next moar-pixelz video standard, I'd like to see the frame rate kicked up a notch. The 60fps game streams are wonderfully fluid to watch at twitch.tv, for example.
The flicker fusion amount isn't a number. A DLP projector at 120Hz will drive me crazy but 240Hz is less noticeable. A CRT set to 60Hz will just about make my eyes bleed but 75Hz won't. An LCD set to 60Hz looks like a smooth motion to me. DLP merges RGB with a noticeable dark gap between them. CRTs have a high amount of luminosity difference between the frames so it's more noticeable. LCDs are very subtle and can get away with a lower Hz without humans noticing it. So not only is it different between people but it's different depending on how different color or brightness-wise the frames actually are.
That is actually because LCDs have a separate frequency for the backlight, which is much higher than the picture frame rate.
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In that case Lenovo should be concerned about fixing the bug that bricks the device rather than giving the bootloader keys!
I would love to have a mini trackball on my laptop, though. :) That would enable playing 3D games without the requirement of an external mouse.
Lenovo Quality team told me that they can not release the bootloader keys because the Thinkpad Tablet has DRM software included.
Frankly that sounds reasonable to me. According to that forum post, they are offering you a replacement motherboard, wouldn't that be enough to restore the original functionality of the device?
The era of cheap netbooks is over and this Ultrabook + Windows 8 trend has brought plethora of very expensive devices to the market. :/
There's probably also an extra modulation scheme to make the signal more suitable to air transport which also shuffles the bits around. Just like when you use copper, you don't want long strings of 1s and 0s but rather to keep the wire alive.
Well, BitTorrent (and warez in general) probably takes a quite big slice.
Ditto. YouTube (and areena.yle.fi (clips from Finnish national free-to-air TV)) have completely replaced my TV watching. Digging past the cat videos you can find way more interesting stuff from YouTube than from the traditional tube.
In Slashdot that argument is often morphed to "it's not stealing, because no one loses anything, and you can make unlimited copies". Which still leaves the problem, how are we then going to decide who gets the free copy and who has to pay? Because the maker of the product has to recoup the production costs somehow.
And I'm Santa Claus.
Leaks memory like a sieve. The running joke is that FF is a memory hog. The bigger problem is closing tabs doesn't restore memory!
Maybe it deliberately leaves page elements in memory cache for faster access in future and thus isn't even supposed to free all the memory used by a tab?
As a sidenote, I've been noticing an Office suite called Kingsoft Office (Android, Windows, Linux) gaining popularity lately. I wonder how far you can get with it and what is the level of compatibility.
You would probably see a multi-fold increase in performance by simply converting your project from C# to C++.
I find your review to be flawed. You did not mention its fine bouquet of dog farts and rotten apples, or the way the aftertaste causes you to retch up your morning breakfast.
*Room laughs hysterically*
This man couldn't have said it better! Let's all just get drunk! To 1.6!
A good amount of tannins, some peppery notes, a hint of vanilla. A nice, full-bodied product. For the price, not bad at all. Should go well with game.
Windows people still seem to be under the impression that linux is hard. It's not like that any-more. Ubuntu and Mint are much easier, and are less bloated/expensive than Windows.
That is just not true. Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint.
Exactly. A week from now, this will be one of the hottest phenomenons on the web.
Sadly both Eclipse and Visual Studio are quite heavyweight. Otherwise I greatly enjoy VS2012.
It's really unprofessional to pull something like this. A few admins will laugh at it, but for those of us in Serious Business (TM) it's not very funny.
I have to agree. If I suddenly came across that logo I might think that the machine is compromised by some script kiddies.
Also freaked out a bit when GROMACS (molecular dynamics package used by Folding@Home) started to display those random "Good ROcking Metal Altar for Chronical Sinners" messages every time it started the simulation.
A few years back when I was looking for work out of college, virtually every prospective employer asked to be friended, or asked what my FB/Twitter/etc. accounts were. When I told them that I didn't bother to spill my guts online to all and sundry, the interview was terminated, and was told something along the lines of , "no FB account is like not having a phone or E-mail address, and we don't want any useless Luddites blocking progress in our company."
I suspect you are lying.
There was never KDE 3.11.
Windows95 was really just a GUI running on top of DOS. Download GNOME and you've got it already!
GNOME is just a GUI running on top of Linux.
Instead of the next moar-pixelz video standard, I'd like to see the frame rate kicked up a notch. The 60fps game streams are wonderfully fluid to watch at twitch.tv, for example.
The flicker fusion amount isn't a number. A DLP projector at 120Hz will drive me crazy but 240Hz is less noticeable. A CRT set to 60Hz will just about make my eyes bleed but 75Hz won't. An LCD set to 60Hz looks like a smooth motion to me. DLP merges RGB with a noticeable dark gap between them. CRTs have a high amount of luminosity difference between the frames so it's more noticeable. LCDs are very subtle and can get away with a lower Hz without humans noticing it. So not only is it different between people but it's different depending on how different color or brightness-wise the frames actually are.
That is actually because LCDs have a separate frequency for the backlight, which is much higher than the picture frame rate.
Also see Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy?
This is the burger: Hesburger | Minimegahampurilainen.
I spent years blaming Comcast for the occasional network hiccups before replacing my Linksys and replacing it with an Airport.
So what did you replace your Linksys with, before replacing it with an Airport? ;)