You're right about starring rather than spamming, but the attention had the intended effect. The priority is now marked critical.

I agree with you that this makes no sense, which makes me hope that the "nothing stored on the local computer" is a bit of an exaggeration. *Some* of the time, you are going to be without an internet connection and you may still want to work on that document or read/write e-mail.

We're a long way from people asking "Off-line? What does that mean?"

Unless I'm missing something, it's a highly misleading summary. In the TFA, the quoted figures are from a UK price comparison site. It's not sales, it's site visitors comparing phones.

There is a discussion of sales, but it's from an article dated Nov 9.

This is an embarrassing post, even by Slashdot standards.

Obvious retort: You can't handle the truth.

This brilliant parody has been floating around for quite a while, author unknown (I found it at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraudenron.htm )

        A take-off from the movies "A Few Good Men" (Some phrases are in the original script and some are altered.)

        Tom Cruise: "Did you order the shredding?"

        Jack Nicholson: "You want answers?"

        Tom Cruise: "I think I'm entitled."

        Jack Nicholson: "You want answers!!"

        Tom Cruise: "I want the truth!"

        Jack Nicholson: "You can't handle the truth!"

        Jack Nicholson: "Son, we live in a world that has financial statements. And those financial statements have to be audited by men with calculators. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Dept. of Justice? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Enron and you curse Andersen. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Enron's death, while tragic, probably saved investors. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves investors. You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that audit. You need me on that audit! We use words like materiality, risk-based, special purpose entity...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent auditing something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very assurance I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I'd prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a pencil and start ticking. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!!"

        Tom Cruise: "Did you order the shredding???"

        Jack Nicholson: "You're damn right I did!"

You're right, but ...

It's easy to solve if customers demand clean implementations. I don't see that happening anytime soon. No one I know (apart from friends who are the type to read slashdot) even knows what android is, let alone the difference between "with google" and not.

One problem is that the phone makers insist on idiotic customizations of the android interface, so updates can take a long time because they have to update the customizations as well as the OS.

The other problem is that hardware becomes outdated and perhaps challenging to update. T-mobile just started updating the MyTouch 3G (which I have). This is a 15-month-old phone running stock android, and I think it took them a long time because the hardware is old.

I don't think this is as trivial a problem as some of the commenters would suggest.

The market is ready for a Debian derivative that cares about stability and bugfixes.

Why a derivative? Why aren't you just using Debian?

Never heard of it, it seems to work great. Thanks!

The base system can be rock-solid, but the part exposed to users (and tweaked for the distro) can be broken. My experience is that the Ubuntu developers often break something (e.g., wireless) while trying to redesign the UI. A few releases back wireless stopped working for me. I found I could connect using barebones wpa_supplicant (a PITA to create the correct conf file, but it worked), but Network-manager was a mess. Slowly this got sorted out and NM now works for me.

Currently, on other machines with Debian and Ubuntu I'm having issues with grub2, while grub1 works great. It's the upgrade that that's the issue.

I suspect that that a bit more conservatism buys a lot more robustness and stability.

I use Ubuntu 10.04. I have mostly switched to chrome (not completely; there are still sites that don't work properly with it). My problem with firefox was memory usage. I tend to have *lots* of tabs open and I often don't reboot for weeks. Firefox memory usage creeps up over time and my laptop slows. I keep reading that this is no longer supposed to happen, but it happens to me. Chrome with a comparable number of open tabs does not slow everything else down.

If Firefox were better behaved I would stick with Firefox.

Being fired for porn is not news, even for nerds. Being fired for reading Slashdot at work -- now *that* would be news! (And it would set the community quaking in its boots...)

Congratulations on getting Acer to listen to you!

This is a little OT but where did you buy that you were able to get a windows refund?

I'm pretty sure that 10.04 has 2.6.32. I tried that first (with Karmic) and gnome misbehaved. For some reason 2.6.33 worked better.

Good luck with 2.6.33. Hope it works for you!

I had the same problem and discovered a number of others having the same problem. I think there are bug reports but don't recall for sure.

In any event, I fixed the problems by installing the 2.6.33 kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ . No more freezes. I did this by downloading and using apt-get to install:

linux-headers-2.6.33-020633-generic_2.6.33-020633_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.33-020633_2.6.33-020633_all.deb
linux-image-2.6.33-020633-generic_2.6.33-020633_i386.deb

I'm running 9.10 (32-bit) on a Lenovo x200s. The recent Lenovos seem to have a lot of problems with ubuntu, but 2.6.33 has made hibernation more stable as well. I'm sure there are downsides to this strategy (probably things like security updates), but so far so good.