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Comment Re:Very Basic Physics (Score 1) 2288

by bicho on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @11:42PM (#35888656) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

Did you know there is a unit called Kilogram Force?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram_force

A kilogram-force (kgf), or kilopond (kp, from latin pondus meaning weight), is an informal unit of force equal to the magnitude of the force exerted on one kilogram of mass by a 9.80665 m/s2 gravitational field (standard gravity, a conventional value approximating the average magnitude of gravity on Earth).[citation needed] Therefore one kilogram-force is by definition equal to 9.80665 newtons.

Comment Re:Is that really well tested in the real world? (Score 1) 797

by bicho on Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:03PM (#35393632) Attached to: GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons

Except for the people that already use double clicking on the title bar for some other operation (like shada/unshade)

Comment Re:its a valid point (Score 1) 405

by bicho on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @11:33AM (#33587836) Attached to: Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform?

The Motorola Droid came out almost a year ago, and it's as usable as it was then. Hell, it even supports 2.2 of the OS.

Except that is not completely true.

Although that is Motorola's fault, not every phone that can is getting an upgrade.

Even more troubling is that it seems to be region based.
And that goes not only for Motorola's droid

Also, unrelated but still a problem for android, is the availability of paid apps on the market.
How long before paid apps get to my country? (rhetoric question)

Comment Re:Lightspeed limited, not an ansible (Score 1) 389

by bicho on Sunday May 23, 2010 @09:14AM (#32313566) Attached to: Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km In China

We will just have to raise the speed of light then.

Comment What cameras? (Score 1) 175

by bicho on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:57PM (#31120150) Attached to: Mining EXIF Data From Camera Phones

What digital cameras (not .*phones) add exif location metadata information to the pictures?

I have a simple Canon PowerShot SX100IS.

Comment SELinux (Score 1) 502

by bicho on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @05:50PM (#30149186) Attached to: Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges

Does it uses SELinux in any way? So that only a handful of users are able to install signed rpm packages?

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