There are currently almost NO tablets with Qualcomm processors.

I think one Lenovo unit has some sort of Qcom in it. Sony's Tablet Z has an APQ8064, but it hasn't hit the market outside of Japan yet. I can't think of any other examples really - but Qualcomm DOMINATES in phones right now.

The tablet situation might change at I/O - lots of rumors that the Nexus 7's replacement will be Qualcomm-based.

NVidia and TI have, so far, been dominating the Android tablet market. iPads have been Samsung-manufactured Apple-designed so far.

The GPU isn't the problem. It's the fact that Allwinner still hasn't created an Android OMX stack for their hwaccel video codecs.

People don't understand that the ARM SoC world is different than the desktop world - in the desktop world, EVERYTHING graphics-related is on the GPU, and it's all blobbed up.

In the ARM SoC world, the graphics subsystem is split up significantly, with a lot of mix-and-match opportunities.

For example, Mali 400MP GPUs are found in a wide variety of SoCs - Samsung Exynos4, Allwinner, Amlogic chips, Rockchip RK3066, some MediaTek chips, and I think a few others. People say, "when will there be hwaccel on Mali" - the answer is NEVER. This is because hwaccel video decoding is done by separate components in the SoC. In the case of Samsung Exynos, it's Samsung's MFC. In the case of Qualcomm, it's "vidc". In the case of Allwinner, it's CedarX. Amlogic's is just "amplayer" or something like that. FYI, at least the kernel interfaces (albeit not the firmware) for MFC and vidc are open-source, as are OMX stacks for both of those implementations.

You can also see other interesting pairings too - for example, Samsung's MFC engine is very similar between Exynos3 and Exynos4, despite Exynos3 having a PowerVR GPU, and Exynos4 having Mali 400MP.

Samsung's MFC has "good enough" OMX support to do XBMC on Exynos3, 4, and 5.
Allwinner simply has NO OMX decoding solution for Android using CedarX, only their special proprietary player.
Same for Amlogic's amplayer - the only reason XBMC works with Amlogic chips is because XBMC had "special" nonstandard playback support added.

The end result is a lot of people.

There are limitations to the pump:
1) If the pump has any sort of problems, you need to start taking fast-acting injections once every hour or two, since you no longer have a nice Lantus baseline. You can get into a VERY bad state in a matter of hours from various people I've talked to.
2) Pumps simply can't handle certain environments. Part of my job includes running EMI tests in an aircraft hangar on occasion - I'd have to remove my pump and go to hourly injections for the duration of such tests.

Last time I tried editing OSM it was a total and complete nightmare. That was a few years ago.

The new editor is a MASSIVE leap forward compared to whatever the hell I used before.

This advancement, if it pans out (most things don't, sadly...), it'll be great for Type Is.

Right now, it can be difficult to manage weight as a Type I - if you exercise, you must reduce your insulin dosage in advance. Otherwise, your blood sugar drops and you wind up eating to make up the calories.

While a normal person (or even a Type 2) can say "I'm gonna go for a run/long walk now because I feel like it", a Type 1's thought process, if they actually want to get benefit is, "I'm definitely going to go for a run/long walk after this meal. I will reduce my insulin dosage for this meal to compensate." Don't run after the meal? Bloodsugar goes high. Run after the meal without planning it before the meal? Bloodsugar goes low and you eat.

My initial reaction to the description of this was "oh, somewhat longer-acting Lantus", but it appears that it is actually load-reactive, sort of acting as an artificial pancreas. However, taking only one injection for a week is unlikely to work - the amount of insulin required for a week is far more than is practical for a single injection unless you're a little kid. That said, going down to 1-2 injections per day, and having that insulin react to load, is a MAJOR improvement for diabetics... Especially, as I said before, load-reactiveness.

Yup. I still buy NVidia cards because they ACTUALLY WORK and they do a reasonable quality control effort on their drivers.

As opposed to AMD/ATI's drivers. Every time I've gone near a Radeon it's been nightmare driver hell, whether the platform is Linux or Windows. (Yeah, they can't even get their Windows drivers right. It should be the exception and not the norm that game A requires driver version Y and above, but game B requires drivers Z and below, where Z Y, because AMD/ATI don't comprehend regression testing - but every time I've worked with an AMD/ATI graphics chipset, that shit is normal.)

More importantly: If you bring your own phone, or pay for your device outright, you have no contract.

Prior to T-Mobile's offering of no-contract plans - if you paid for your phone outright, or brought your own phone - you STILL had to sign up for a contract.

I am fairly certain the tap-to-pay systems add a capability not present in standard magstripe systems - a transaction counter within the card.

Yes, failed cards will occasionally trigger a few extra counts, but you can safely assume that all transactions with a given card are going to be monotonically increasing.

If a thief starts using your card, and then you use it - now the CC company is going to see cases where the transaction counter goes backwards, a sure sign that something is VERY WRONG. Easy fraud detection trigger.

Yeah, and the FUD comment that "omg phones MIGHT have greatly increased NFC range in the future" is bullshit.

Increasing range would require:
1) More power (eats battery)
2) More antenna surface area. To get a range of about 6-10 inches, you need an antenna that is more than a foot on each side. (I need to hold my badge within 6-10 inches of the reader when badging into the largest readers at my workplace - which are over a foot in both width and height.) Oh yeah, that's with a fixed reader that has all the power it could ever want.

The problem is that sometimes it is hard to get service without the subsidy penalty.

Fortunately, it is much easier now than it was a year or so ago, thanks to Straight Talk and Net10's SIM-only plans (both give you choices of AT&T or T-Mobile's network, although new AT&T ST SIMs may be temporarily unavailable.) and T-Mobile's new plan structures.

When my contract is up, it's off to ST (if they are offering AT&T SIMs again at that point) or Net10 for me.

T-Mobile, Net10, Straight Talk. Probably a few other MVNOs out there.

Yeah. It looks like these are nonrechargeable cells.

In short, a car that consumes aluminum instead of gasoline to run.

There's a brief reference to rechargeable zinc-air cells - but the aluminum-air cells seem to be nonrechargeable.

The real question is - One can always look at a oneliner summary of a law and say, "opposing this is BAD!" - but often when you start picking apart the details of a bill, you'll see that it is the WRONG way to solve a given problem and the law itself is just plain BAD.

Look at Every Child Left Behind - Hey, let's make education in our country better! If anyone opposes it... THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!!! - That legislation is systematically destroying the education system in this country. Yeah, the oneliner summary looks GREAT - THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!! - but the law itself is just plain BAD.

That and the fact that the PS3 supports more formats than the RPi for playback, not counting the fact that you can play games on it. Plus RPi doesn't do Netflix or Amazon Instant Video.

Directly? Probably not.

Indirectly? The whole sequestration mess makes the government (or any contractor of the government) a pretty unpleasant place to work now.

Big problem is all of the obsession about money and productivity leads to massive oversight - which leads to piss-poor productivity. Death spiral, here we come.