Well it does have a screen, hinge, keyboard, and trackpad.

Naughty Google! Very Naughty!

.. Fox isn't going to outrank the AP article they're syndicating. For U.s. political news (where they do their most reporting), they're on news.google.com -- right now, they're on 6 different news items.

As for yanking videos off of youtube, it's the customer base flagging it. You can argue that google shouldn't yank unpopular videos, but people marking it as offensive (or hate speech) is hard to ignore.

Hello, I couldn't find another way to contact you, so here we are.

I'm finishing up a PhD in scalability & performance analysis, and have done a lot of work in instrumentation. A userland instrumentation tool is part of my final research. Instrumentation is in a terrible, terrible state -- save a few points of light -- and I'm happy to see someone else in this area!!

So, as you're starting out, some tips:

1) If you haven't already done so, investigate dtrace. While available on Mac OS & FreeBSD, it's worth picking up a virtual machine image of opensolaris & playing with it there.

2) Pick up a copy of: R. Jain, "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling," Wiley- Interscience, New York, NY, April 1991, ISBN:0471503361. It's my new Bible.

Good luck, and hit me up if you'd like to chat. For my email address, I'm [my first name].[my last name]@gmail.com

Cheers,
-ls

Yeah, you get much better performance going through a northbridge & PCI-e than talking to a gpu on the same chip...

Check out mappero: http://www.mardy.it/mappero

The UI's a little strange, but it treats me reasonably well!

Ahem.

I had an iPhone before my N900, and frankly I adore the N900. It's fast, responsive, and it's easy to understand what's going on. If the music's skipping (which happened on both devices), I pull up top, then renice my music player. If I want a nice note-taking program, I just run emacs & org-mode on it. Then I'll 'git push' those notes for my other machines. I use citrix to run an app at work (note: despite what the website says, it doesn't actually require motif). The map program (not the stock one, but one you can download a package for) is utterly fantastic. I even have a subway map for my city.

Really, advanced users of the iPhone really just want a mobile computer, with a phone tacked on. The UI on the N900 is pretty good, and it does what I want with few problems, and many, many wonderful plusses over the iPhone platform.

Also, it has a keyboard, replaceable battery, and flash :-) I can stream full-screen flash videos in a cab.

They're working too hard for Windows lockin. If they would just let that go, and let all their smart people develop a *good OS* for *just* *mobile*, with no ball & chain to Windows, it'd be competitive.

Sadly, I think that such an activity is against their DNA at this point.

I wholeheartedly agree. IMHO the real issue here is that the GPL was satisfied as far as any developer cares -- the source. Users trying to hack up their devices weren't satisfied. I'm fine with that arrangement. I think most dev's understand the business side of software, and the mix of closed/open to make it work out well.

I don't see any part of the GPL requiring that you open up hardware using GPL'd software, which appears to be the logical jump the poster's trying to make. Quite a terrible jump! Who'd want to use GPL software in their products? Who'd want to use products with crap closed-source hacked-together system software? IMHO most shops that ship Linux kernels on their hardware do it b/c they don't have the resources or motivation to make an equivalent-quality version themselves. If they couldn't use Linux, they'd shove complete crap in there instead.

.. False dichotomy. Warn only the first time.

You'd be surprised at how many humans walk like that too.

It is generally "elitist professions" like government/politics and media where the *unpaid* internships are prevalent, and they are definitely a "paying your dues" process. And as is touched on briefly in the article, this system gives the wealthier kids a distinct edge in these fields, as they are far more likely to be in a position to be able to afford working for no pay.

How much of it is due to the fact that tech builds an innate hierarchy ordered by skill level, while some other professions only have social means to establish order?

Well, there's the matter of actually telling the *truth*, as the current base-2 values are flat-out, numerically, mathematically *wrong* values for KB, MB, GB. It's literally bad sloppy programming that's caused a habit that's stuck around for far too long. When a HDD says it has 40 GB, it actually has 40 GB. When most modern OSs say a file is 40 GB, it literally *is* *not* 40 GB. It's 40 GiB. The underlying byte counts are really different.

Note that geeks and funding managers (e.g. senators) take "creating" differently. Geeks take it as the thinking and engineering work, while the funding managers take it as taking the resource risk on a project. Both are fair within their contexts.

This was introduced with Java 1.6 update 10. If the compiler notices that the object isn't passed outside of a function (called escape analysis), it'll be allocated on its stack.

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The point is that a good tablet with more functionality than the iPad requires a good amount of research into how to do tablet UIs. The WIMP system is pretty terrible for tablet computing. That's why the iPad's an overgrown ipod touch, to avoid having to either do the research or be sucky.

Frankly, I'd love to see something designed for a stylus that also can take a few gestures usable for the hand holding that stylus.