i tried ubuntu with him before they gave it a while then it imploded. they were not impressed.
i did manage to get vista working but i feel it is deeply compromised vista.

if they cared about safety then this would be possible to implement in NFC mode to the officers laptop, and should not require 'thumbing' through a phone. if a Samsung phone can sync playlists with a tap to initiate NFC then they can use some timestamp and duration logs the phone keeps for billing use.

however they don't care they want cops 'flipping through' phones for innocent seeming uses, to bust people for breaking laws. sorry I don't have a positive stance on this. in a perfect world they would do a lot of things differently. but a society where ads show people using handhelds to sync music, but cannot use the same tech for law enforcement is sad.

just guessing but google search tools send the data in the clear unless you manually type the 'https' for it. oops lotta data being shipped there and as you type one character at a time to any search engine it is going in the clear, and google tries to anticipate your search.

i second the use of a kickstarter group.

the human brain uses between 12 and 20 watts, despite rumours of some people being 'smarter' than others the hardware varies very little, and it's simply a matter of efficiency at tasks being given to it. so really a 'smart' person isn't 'wired differently' its just they didn't motivate themselves the way people who memorized things in school.
and google isn't using hardware that can compete with real nurons. illusionists are so amazing because they know that people are designed to throw away data very fast and see what the illusionist wants them to see rather than what their brains threw away with no reguard to values.
i know exactly how stupid people are because i've been there thinking i was smarter because i could do well in school. if we wipe ourselves out i know why, because we couldn't get past thinking ourselves greater than we are.

with a kernel that doesn't support (my) wifi hardware when ubuntu does. lubuntu is plenty light weight for my hardware too. android runs fine on my phone and tablet too, i have a gaming desktop and that is windows 7, but despite steam for linux gaming just isn't the same.

ubuntu is still way better nomatter what distrowatch says.

i have a droid 4 and it already can tell when you pull the phone from your face in a call to bring up a dialpad, it can tell what time it is and set battery saving modes on a schedule. it can tell if a caller should be able to ring the phone after 10 pm-6am(default) only if they are in your favorite numbers list.

but solid wood floors are kinda hard to drill through
it's not a wall issue shoulda specified... oh well also i rent from relatives who told me to just use wifi...

i had more depression trying to work for a living than i do collecting social security. when you face insurmountable problems there is a lot of depression... when you don't realize you're causing the insurmountable problems it leads to failed suicide attempts because lets face it, you're gonna try pills and you'll do it wrong.

i am better now and i am on medicine. it feels good to be alive now. and the only problems i face are ones me or others put before me. and since i am not fabricating evil self destructive thought with no one to stop it, well i can actually do things to feel good about now. i was very very depressed when i was younger because i played out in my mind doing bad things to people, the darker my thoughts the worse i felt but at the time it felt like striking out against the world the man etc. when i put the pieces together i realized i was actually sabatoging my own well being it took a long time, because in my social life i looked for the 'right words to say' instead of the 'right way to tell people what you want from them' so there was a lot of darkness in my life because i was causing it. it took time and medication to fix, and now i am much happier. i don't have may friends except online but i am much better now.

am i the only person still using wired controllers? what benefit does adding a battery a radio frequency transceiver do for real end users? besides not having to have break away cords on the original xbox so violent players and people tripping over your cord to get your attention doesn't have? i don't like wireless unless it really is needed. my tablet immediately drops traffic if my desktop wifi is on as it is, and i don't live in a big city. sometimes the laptop wifi interferes with the tablet too, and these are licensed devices that supposedly cause no interference, and must accept any interference. if it wasn't rental i would probably drill holes and run wires but that is a real pain but i guess so is the microwave interrupting signal too. wireless everything is a nightmare in battery cost for no good reason the wires are cheap and recyclable.

it reminds me of cell phones, they started with free cell to cell calls and then they started phone subsudies and then smartphones hit, and they found a new cash cow, data plans. now i know there are ways around this, like tracphone etc. or flexible plan switching.. or not owning a smartphone but compared to cable's pricing for data there is no way to use drmed apps from ios store or from google play that don't let you do anything without internet. fine when you're at a wifi site but awful anywhere else. cell phones cost much more than cable tv internet and voip phone and they try to make you pay for software to tether devices like laptops... it's dumb this isn't 1980 why can one company make money charging 40 a month for internet when cell carriers cant not even in their home markets? i realize wired networks cost money to maintain but cell towers don't cost as much as they used to and some places are going 'no land lines' except for cable... they like lying about how expensive it is, because the government auctioned a lot of wireless spectrum to make a fast buck... and it still sucks...

i have been using ubuntu for over a year now. i don't game as much but my laptop is coping just fine without windows. my laptop still can boot windows, but it doesn't need to, because everything else is easier and more open than windows. i did recently replace a cheap gaming desktop with a windows 7 custom built rig (built right by myself the other i obtained through people who didn't know what they were doing) but i only game on weekends (because i can only handle so much gaming time) so most of the time i use linux and android devices. i just bought a tablet to see if a tablet with a keyboard can replace my use of a laptop during the week, the phone is too small a screen, and hooking it to the tv only works well for streaming netflix.the laptop is over 3 years old, so i have some time to decide if i really can make due with a tablet, or if it's just yet another toy.

56kbps was half way decent when i last used it. i wanted faster but with hardware compression of headers and full content text would send at 114kbps and computers then were mainly shipping text. with online drm and online updates and streaming media though things have changed. to stream you need a bit more bandwith but 6Mbps is fine really you only need 3Mbps to stream standard definition. hdtv takes more but giving one individual user 1gbps is a nightmare if they get struck with a virus that is 0day.