Comment Re:Now if they could only fix... (Score 1) 278
Just stayed in a Marriott for a week. The wifi did not require a login, so accessing it did not require you to have paid a room fee.
Just stayed in a Marriott for a week. The wifi did not require a login, so accessing it did not require you to have paid a room fee.
Well, that falls under "Unless you're considering people who received a live vaccine to be "infected"..." - since a live vaccine will cause antibodies to be present.
Recovery (which is used to apply OTAs) has read/write access to system. Official OEM recoveries will only apply ZIPs that were signed by the OEM. (This is to prevent, for example, people just flashing SuperSU to gain root access, or some app maliciously altering
Samsung was preloading useless crapware on their phones LONG before Google started becoming more restrictive with GMS licensing.
"Ever wonder why Samsung installs a fucking duplicate app on your device for everything Google does? Samsung Calendar, Samsung memo, Samsung voice, Samsung Apps Store, Samsung Translator, etc?" - Yeah, they're arrogant idiots who think their shit doesn't stink. Samsung's apps are utter and complete shite (especially the apps store) compared to Google's stuff. They're a blight on Android, and cause a major negative perception of Android in general when the issue is Samsung-specific.
I agree with this, except for the "dealing with false positives" issue.
About 50% of my spam folder is false positives... And Google refuses to learn.
Nope, it hasn't been used in ages. It was largely obsolete even back when I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes close to 2 decades ago.
I'm not sure if it's cheaper, but human insulin IS more effective than pork/beef insulin. Also, pork/beef consumption was going down and insulin demand was rising decades ago, which is why insulin-producing bacteria are one of the first genetically modified organisms ever created.
These days, human insulin isn't actually that common - there has been a move to modified insulins that have slight differences from human insulin to achieve certain goals. (Lispro/aspart aka Humalog/Novolog reduce insulin's tendency to "clump", which greately speeds up the time to take effect when injected. Insulin glargine, aka Lantus, is designed to provide a very long "peakless" baseline effect for 24 hours.)
Nope. Best free wifi I've ever used was at a Marriott, and best wifi I used on my last vacation was at the most expensive hotel we stayed at (we were always at budget hotels though). Many of the networks were set up my totally incompetent idiots.
This is not Marriott corporate policy - this happened at a single location that happens to also be a convention center, and is more about the practices of the convention center and not the hotel.
To play devil's advocate - That's pretty much what the people here were trying to do - prevent a disaster like what happened at the 2012 Big Android BBQ, where exhibitors/speakers couldn't use the network because it was completely jammed, or 2013 BABBQ where they at least kept most people off of the convention center network but all of the hotspots around caused everyone's wifi to be flaky.
Keep in mind this happened at a single Marriott location which was a convention center - it's not standard corporate policy. I've been staying at various Marriott hotels for years and the wifi has always been free.
H1N1 is a "real virus".
And even though the case mortality rate of H1N1 is FAR lower than Ebola - the reason H1N1 is so scary is because it is FAR more contagious than Ebola.
e.g. it is MUCH easier to keep an Ebola outbreak contained if your healthcare system is even remotely decent than it is to keep flu contained. It's pretty much a given that each year, 1-2 different strains of flu WILL spread globally, and even with vaccinations, that spread is inevitable because it's so damn contagious. Also, I BELIEVE that it is possible for someone to be contagious but not symptomatic with flu.
With Ebola - I am fairly certain that you are not contagious unless symptomatic (which is where the comments about "zero risk of infection" on his flights comes from), and even when symptomatic, transmission requires direct contact with bodily fluids.
WHAT? You're claiming that one quarter of the US population caught the H1N1 virus?
That's TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT.
Unless you're considering people who received a live vaccine to be "infected"...
Because the
Once disabled, removing them has zero benefit. Free space in
Much of why CM and other AOSP-derivative projects are popular is to get rid of carrier and OEM bloatware. Very few people don't install gapps, and while some of the gapps packagers (such as PA) now offer "micro" gapps packages with most of the unnecessary Google apps installed, the package recommended by CM (as in, linked from their wiki) is a complete one.
This is effectively Google's response to OEMs (especially Samsung) putting on atrocious crapware that was ruining the Android experience for many users. e.g. "this is why OEMs can't have nice things".
One of the biggest issues is that sometimes the OEM crapware would constantly hound you to create an account with the OEMs own ecosystem. Google's stuff, at least, usually doesn't hound you if you click "no" during the initial Google account setup. Samsung, on the other hand, would constantly spam me with persistent notifications until I rooted and removed their crap. Also, OEM/carrier crapware was far more likely to do funky stuff in the background without the user's knowledge/approval than GMS.
Yeah. Windows, as far as I can tell, shows iowait CPU as normal CPU usage.
Linux, at least, shows iowait usage in a separate bin, letting you know when you're I/O bound.
Nearly every time I've found my system unresponsive/slow, I've noticed my CPU utilization bar on my system monitor widget is almost entirely green. Green = iowait.
In a number of cases, the iowait was high because my system was swap thrashing. If your system bogs down under heavy multitasking, it's much more likely you need more RAM and not more CPU.
Yup. In many cases, the newer SoCs in phones have improved performance-per-watt.
Not always though... If you want amazing performance-per-watt, you don't want a flagship SoC, you want a midrange one. The quad Cortex-A7 Snapdragon 400 blows away any member of the 600 or 800 family in terms of battery performance. This is, among other reasons, why most of the Android Wear OEMs have chosen Snapdragon 400 units and disabled the unnedded cores. (Motorola was the only exception, and their usage of an OMAP3 has led to major criticisms of battery life since it's made on an ancient manufacturing process and the Cortex-A8 is significantly less power-efficient than the A7 even on the same manufacturing process.)
I have a device with a 2.5 GHz Snapdragon 801. Most of the time I've capped the CPU frequency at 1.5-1.7 GHz and don't notice a difference.
A Russian Internet disconnection would seriously alter the power balance/politics in EVE Online too...
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
