If you don't mind could you please share more about your setup and what your user experience is compared to any other x86 systems you have? Thanks

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Slightly less flippantly: Netwinder, empeg car, various prototype boards, various MP3 players. Just irks me that apparently this stuff is news to people.

Eh. Debian has fully supported ARM for years.

Indeed - I've been using Debian on ARM devices for at least 12 years. I'm always amused when someone new comes along and assumes a big distro running on ARM is a new thing.

This neatly demonstrates what's wrong with Chrome OS: Google forgot the hardware, as usual.

The fact that you can run Ubuntu on it without any hassle is exactly what's wrong. Chrome OS only makes sense if it: makes the hardware cheaper, makes the battery last longer, and lets you optimize the form factor (as in, more compact).

It makes sense it's tested on a machine which is way overspec for what they need, but it makes absolutely no sense to demonstrate the platform on it. It should have been something more like: an ARM, a tiny amount of storage (less than they have now), half thickness, half the battery (lower power consumption), and much more compact. This is just a netbook dressed up with a different OS. It should have been a new OS enabling more precisely targeted hardware. That seems to have been lost.

So I can't see why anyone would buy a device with Chrome OS on it, or convert one to it. If this was on hardware that was significantly cheaper than a netbook/laptop, people would buy into it. But this - an Atom and the associated mess of components with it - is going to be the same as everything else. So nobody will understand why they should buy a netbook that only browses.

And that's the theme from every reviewer, blogger and journalist: they don't get it. In it's current form, it just doesn't make any sense.

I frequently see hilarious convoys like this on i280: 6 cars following each other at 75mph leaving about 4ft between them. That's very likely to cause the last car in the convoy to bump into the car in front due to the amplifying effect of braking as it moves down the line. The first car could simply lift off the throttle a little. The next car has some reaction time, then has to brake as it's too late to just lift. The next car reacts and gets a little closer before braking harder. By the time this reaches the 6th car, the reaction time is larger than the gap, and there's a collision, and hopefully that happens at the 6th and not at the 2nd car in the convoy.

I do wonder what the ratio is for cops pulling over speeders to tailgaters. In my opinion tailgating is more dangerous, although most of the time the cause would be speeding too.

In California pulling over is required by law but only when people stack up behind you. So it's only when some dipshit like you is slowing down a whole BUNCH of people at once that they are legally obligated to pull over. Who cares if they want to go 5, 15, or 50 miles per hour faster than you? Why do you want them behind you anyway? I pull into a turnout at the least provocation, and if you had ever heard of a thing called the golden rule, you would too.

There's plenty of good reasons you'll find yourself in the left-most lane even if you're not the fastest car - it's interesting to see the responses from people assuming you'd only be doing that because you're a dick. In any case it is not an excuse to tailgate. It's dangerous to both cars as well as all those following as you're going to turn any minor one car incident into an unavoidable mess of two cars spinning across the highway, piling up those behind.

You could always shrug and just pass on the right, if you're in a state where it's legal, which in CA it is. In most of the cases you'd ever consider passing on the right, they just happen to be legal. See this: CA DMV 21754. I can only assume most drivers who tailgate me in CA when there's a completely empty freeway haven't read the code - I have because I moved there recently.

And while we're on the subject of what the Code actually says, the advice given in the CA code for being tailgated is to slow down. I remember the same applies in the UK code, but sadly not the pass-on-right (left in UK), unless it's the natural flow of congested traffic (I have a UK license too). It's so that braking distance is reduced to compensate for the prick behind you having basically no reaction time gap, and to lessen the speed of the two-car incident he may cause. So hey, it's actually against the recommended code of conduct on the road to maintain or increase speed if you're being tailgated. Again: why don't you just drive lawfully at a decent distance and/or change lane and pass?

And yes, CA is full of single lane roads with no passing lanes. I have yet to encounter a significant amount of time where the car in front didn't use a pull-out passing area. Sometimes they're not well-marked and they'll miss them - fair enough, I've certainly missed a few in poor visibility and held up traffic an extra half mile. In no case would I tailgate to "encourage" them to move over like some drivers do. That's the most absurdly dangerous and selfish thing you can do.

The ARM processor used by the iPhone 4 (Apple A4)...is the same than the used by the Samsung Wave (Samsung S5PC110A01).

At least according to an annalysis by cnet: ...

No, that would be the same core not the same processor. You can see in the images linked that it's only a very small fraction of the total SoC that's common to both. It's a bit like calling a Xeon the same processor as a Core 2 Duo - it basically is, but that glosses over the gigantic details of everything else in the chip, and they're not even highly integrated examples.

Then they worked, and are continuing to work.

Dog barks at postman. Postman comes and goes away. Dog keeps barking at postman every day. Seems to work.