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Comment Battery life and interface (Score 1) 179

by D4rkforce (#38863725) Attached to: Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware

Why would I want to drain the battery of my phone by listening to music? That thing does not last long enough as it is...
When it comes to changing a song or doing whatever, I can just reach into my pocket and press the right buttons. This is impossible with most phones.

And have you actually listened to the sound most ADCs and headphone amps in cheap phones produce? Sure, you get what you pay for, but I do not want to pay 500 euros for a phone, just so I can listen to music in a reasonable quality and end up with an expensive phone, that is way to big and heavy to take it with me jogging or cycling.
Cellphones

Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics 505

Posted by timothy from the so-we'll-sell-you-wifi-service dept.
mattrwilliams writes "There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence that points to personal electronics being a real issue on board planes. Dave Carson of Boeing, the co-chair of a federal advisory committee that investigated the problem of electronic interference from portable devices, says that PEDs radiate signals that can hit and disrupt highly sensitive electronic sensors hidden in the plane's passenger area, including those for an instrument landing system used in bad weather."

Comment Re:Dropping in Quality (Score 1) 232

by D4rkforce (#36317324) Attached to: GNOME Shell Hurts Gaming Performance
What the ...? This was not what the preview did show me ;). So, I will just sum up what I wrote before. KDE 4 has not been very stable or high performance for me either. However, to me this was not a huge problem, because I have been working with fluxbox for a long time anyways. The people around me using KDE4 migrated to XFCE and seem to be happy with their choice. What I do not understand is: Even if KDevelop stopped being a reasonable choice for you (even using another window manager/desktop manager), was your project so heavily dependent on features offered by KDevelop? If there was no time to migrate to a new IDE, how did you have time to actually work on your project? I'm not trying to troll here. I just don't understand what was so special about KDE and KDevelop to you, that you just stopped working on your project because of KDE4 and migrated to Windows 7 (where you had to change to a new IDE anyways).
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Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk 117

Posted by kdawson from the like-a-perp-walk-only-without-the-cameras dept.
An anonymous reader recommends an Ars Technica account of a breakthrough in efforts toward quantum computing. German scientists have managed to get cesium atoms in a state called a "quantum walk": basically a superposition of all the possible states of a particle. "Quantum walks were first proposed by physicist Richard Feynman and are, in terms of probability, the opposite of a random walk. A random walk might be modeled by a person flipping a coin, and for each flip he steps left for heads and right for tails. In this case, his most probable location is the center, with the probability distribution tapering off in either direction. A quantum walk involves the use of internal states and superpositions, and results in the hypothetical person 'exploring' every possible position simultaneously." In the abstract of the paper from Science (subscription needed for full-text access), the researchers say: "Our system allows the observation of the quantum-to-classical transition and paves the way for applications, such as quantum cellular automata."
Privacy

UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook 628

Posted by Soulskill from the clicking-buttons-is-much-easier-than-walking-a-beat dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently the police like to spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals. 'Riot police stormed a man's 30th birthday barbecue for 15 guests because it was advertised as an "all-night" party on Facebook. Four police cars, a riot van, and a force helicopter were dispatched to a privately-owned field in a small village near Sowton, Devon in the UK on Saturday, ordering the party shut down or everyone would be arrested. The birthday barbecue was busted up before they even had a chance to plug the music in, reports the BBC. It was about 4pm when eight officers with camouflage pants and body armor jumped out of their vehicles and ordered everyone out about an hour into the party.' The event's organizer, Andrew Poole, said, 'The police had full-on camouflage trousers on and body-armour, it was ridiculous. There were also several plain-clothes officers as well ... they kept on insisting it has been advertised it as an all-night rave on the internet. The times on it were put as "overnight" in case people wanted to sleep-over, but after being explained this they were still banging on saying it was advertised on the internet. They wouldn't accept it wasn't a rave. It was in a completely isolated field.'"

Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? 468

Posted by CmdrTaco from the well-we-are-very-sexy dept.
DigDuality writes "With the news that Windows 2008 (recently discussed on Slashdot) will have GUI-less installs and be fully scriptable, that they've opened up their communication protocols for non-commercial usage and are providing a patent covenant (Redhat Responds), and now finally an interesting rumor floating around that Microsoft will be taking on GNU directly. Has Microsoft totally switched gears in how it is approaching the Unix and FOSS sector for direct competition? According to an anonymous email leaked from a Microsoft employee, it seems Microsoft will be developing a framework that will be completely GNU compatible. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, said on Friday (23 February) that they are aiming to restore a Unix-like environment to its former proprietary glory, at the same time proving that Microsoft is committed to interoperability. Ballmer emphasized that Microsoft's new strategy is to provide users with a complete package, and this includes users who like Unix environments. According to the supposedly leaked email, UNG, which stands for UNG's not GNU, is set to be released late 2009."

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