I agree! Why call it the 720, when everyone has 1080p by now?
Call it XBox oo and be done with it.
(That's my poor attempt at writing infinity, if you couldn't tell)

I wouldn't say designed to fail, but it does seem that the Leaf is not designed for its batteries to be replaceable.
Given the cost constraints, the engineers picked their battles.
If the electric car catches on and attracts sufficient competition, the free enterprise system will give us better batteries.

Originally, the Leaf's battery meter was more accurate. Zero really meant zero.
One of the first problems reported by new Leaf owners was that they would run out of power while on the road, because they were expecting the meter to work like a typical gas meter, where zero means "fumes", with a few miles to spare.
There was a firmware upgrade, I believe in May 2011, that changed the meter so that zero means about 10 miles. Also Nissan recommends that you only charge to 80% capacity, for increased battery life.

I have never let my Leaf get as empty as zero bars, although sometimes it gets as low as one bar.
A more precise meter would be nice. I'd like to see a one-percent resolution. But I'm happy with it lying a bit about the capacity, because I don't want to be stranded, and I don't want to discharge too deeply. Since I drive over 60 highway miles daily, I do give it 100% charge, which isn't the best. When I get a charger at work (perhaps one of the converted cables mentioned in the article) I'll be able to drop the charge to 80% and extend the battery life.

It would be cool to power a cellphone with this. I don't mean transmit, silly, but the receive side, while otherwise asleep.

The epic video game movie to end all video game movies: Pong.
Just imagine what plot lines they could dream up for that one!

Mod parent up.
The LEAF has an RSS reader that reads (text to speech) the selected feed. I don't have any idea why they provide the location data to RSS feeds, but it is an opt-in system.

The Brian Proffitt blog spells it out nicely. The bionic library has standard header files. That's the API definition, not copyrightable sorry. So, even though glibc has very similar header files, using the same names and everything, Bionic did not steal anything from glibc. They simply implement the same API, so they must, by definition, have the essentially the same header files.
Nothing to see here, move along. But before you do, read the blog. I'd score it a 5 if it were on slashdot.

I'm trying to figure out why someone would analyze the source code to an open project, find defects, and NOT fix and commit the defects for code review. I mean, that's how the process is supposed to work. Unless this is just a publicity stunt.

Yes, but I have never had much luck getting usable Skype performance on an EDGE network.

Right on the heels of the Blu-ray release in 2011?!?

I tried a port of CM6 release candidate on my HTC Kaiser (AT&T Tilt). It was slow, but to be fair the Kaiser was designed for WinMo 6.1, something like three years ago. I got the impression that CM6 is a thing of beauty on an adequate phone. The OpenVPN support was great, if you use that. I am using a more stock Froyo right now, a better fit for this old phone. I won't quote w0mprat, but I agree with the sentiment.

I wonder if that's an old C Band free-to-air satellite TV dish? It sounds like it's on the large side, but it might work. Search "free to air" and you'll find the required LNB (low noise block converter) and receiver. Couple that with a small Ku-Band dish (one meter or less) and you'll have all the free-to-air your dishes can see. Check out www.lyngsat.com for lists of satellites, frequencies, and TV stations available. Big dishes give you more gain (stronger signal, was important back in the analog days, and still helps for C-Band), but bigger dishes have much smaller look angles (like a telescope versus binoculars) and are harder to aim.

I just have a one meter Ku Band dish. I recommend even smaller, to be easier to aim, unless you live really far from the equator. When I lived in northern New York the extra gain of a one meter dish helped a lot. We mostly point to the bird at 97 degrees west, and pick up about a hundred free channels. Many different languages, some good music and sometimes movies. But the only English-language channels are news and religion. If you are Chinese or Iranian, there is an excellent variety to choose from. Other satellites have more Spanish language, from what I've seen on lyngsat.

The receiver is the most expensive part, and it can be had for $100 or $200. If you want one that accepts smart cards, to descramble the pay channels, it might cost a bit more.

I added some of the detail above not for the original poster but for anyone else who might be interested.

Write a test framework that lets you expand the scope of automated testing.

I've always said that it depends on whether you place your faith in evolution or creation.
Creation: of course God created the chicken before it ever laid an egg.
Evolution: of course some pre-chicken laid the first chicken egg, which hatched into the first chicken.
A silly argument, really, with a simple answer.
Now, I didn't say that everyone agrees on the same answer, but only that the answer clearly and logically follows from your faith.