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Comment: Re:Just got mine... (Score 1) 168

by Fez (#38585372) Attached to: Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming

I haven't taken it outside to try to get a lock. It found my location inside, but not via GPS. I can't get a lock with any GPS device (even my handheld Garmin) inside my house, so I'm not shocked. If I get some time today I'll try to take it outside to see if I can get a lock.

They say the metal back panel interferes with the GPS signal, and I don't doubt it. Personally, my uses for GPS on here will be minimal though. When I'm on the road I can use location-based services on my phone rather than a tablet, but time will tell how much of a problem it may be.

Comment: Re:Just got mine... (Score 1) 168

by Fez (#38585198) Attached to: Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming

I want to get the dock but nobody had it in stock yet. It works great without it, so I don't mind waiting until the current craze dies down.

The stock Asus Battery widget looks like it displays indicators for both the tablet and dock batteries. I have a screenshot of the widget preview for proof if someone really wants to see it.

Comment: Re:Just got mine... (Score 1) 168

by Fez (#38585162) Attached to: Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming

I have dozens of unix boxes I can ssh to if I need to do anything like that. I plan on using it as a tablet myself, even if I do get the dock it's main purpose is internet apps + games.

If I need to do anything more complex, I can always ssh or vnc/rdp to another box and do it remotely.

The transformer prime does a bit nicer job of multitasking though, the recent apps button lets you easily swap between running applications or kill ones you aren't using. I'm not sure if that's an Asus thing or a Honeycomb thing though.

Comment: Just got mine... (Score 4, Insightful) 168

by Fez (#38581572) Attached to: Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming

I just got mine this afternoon, ordered just before Christmas from Best Buy and it came today. So far, I'm impressed with it.

I will probably not root the thing, and have no interest in custom ROMs, so aside from the impending ICS update it's great for me as-is.

I've been playing on it non-stop since I pulled it off the charger about 3 hours ago and even with all manner of app installing and game playing it's barely below 75% charge.

Comment: Re:Awesome (Score 3, Informative) 53

by Fez (#38162272) Attached to: Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL

pfSense 2.1 has been including an IPv6 capable OpenVPN setup with tun for a few months now, though it's still in early development. The client on the firewall is capable, as is the windows client that the export package can generate with an included config.

openvpn[32839]: OpenVPN 2.2.0 i386-portbld-freebsd8.1 [SSL] [LZO2] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Aug 11 2011

Biotech

In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner 619

Posted by samzenpus
from the just-like-mom-used-to-grow dept.
wanzeo writes "Within the last decade, many of us have experienced the encroachment of ethics into our mealtime. Phrases such as vegetarian, vegan, organic, bST, GMO, etc. have become part of common grocery store advertising. The most recent addition to the list of ethically charged food is in-vitro meat, or meat that was cultured in a petri dish, and was never part of a live animal. The project has been brought to fruition by Mark Post, a biologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Grown using animal stem-cells on a nutrient medium, the nearly see-through strips of muscle would need to be stacked nearly 3,000 times to approach the thickness of a burger. The practice promises to be more humane, sustainable, and efficient than conventional meats, with one analysis suggesting it would, 'use 35 to 60 percent less energy, emit 80 to 95 percent less greenhouse gas and use around 98 percent less land.' In a world where nearly half of all crop production is used to feed livestock, a move towards artificial meat may be inevitable."

Comment: Re:IPv6 (Score 1) 326

by Fez (#38005792) Attached to: Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users

IPv6 doesn't have NAT in the same sense that IPv4 does. What it has is prefix translation, which can move your devices into a different subnet, but it doesn't (at least that I've seen) have a means to hide multiple IPs behind a single address.

Not that it would be practical for ISPs to track/charge based on device anyhow...

Patents

Patent Applications Hint Apple Wants To Eliminate Printer Drivers 323

Posted by timothy
from the from-anywhere-is-a-nice-ideal dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. If the company has its way, there will be three ways to access a printer in the future: The first will be via a conventional software driver. The second will be via a cloud service and the third will be via a driverless access method that supports 'universal' printing from any type device."

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