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It only has a 4,000 mAh (15 Whr) battery, smaller even than Nexus 7's 4,300 mAh battery, and considering it also has a much larger 12" screen (more than twice screen area), the battery life would also be smaller than Nexus 7.

Nexus 10 has a 9,000 mAh battery, which is also used to compensate for the 2560x1600 resolution. iPad 3/4 has 11,500 mAh and it's pushing 1 million fewer pixels for comparison's sake.

But I agree, Google needs to rectify this in next year's ARM Chromebook. They need to use a battery large enough to hold for 10h (and hopefully maintain, or lower the price). If they use this big.Little chip from Samsung next year, it might be easier to achieve that:

http://androidheadlines.com/2012/11/samsung-8-core-big-littl...
Plus, sticky attributes.
As Kyrgizio mentions, You can do whatever you want, probably even illegally, but you DON'T embarrass your "betters". You don't bite the hand that feeds you, and you DON'T stick your head up out of the herd.
From the comments it sounds like a polling app. In which case no, some folks I've seen doing a very simple version of this use URL's like http://poll.cm, http://polls.io and http://gopollgo.com
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very useful. Thanks!
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We understand that "poll" as a negative connotation. In addition, we think Poutsch is a little more than social polling so we would like to avoid that word.
Yes, that is what I'm saying.

Security: Adding a layer of security on a per-filesystem basis is not sufficient or necessary. It is only conceivably useful as a backup plan when the actual security system has failed, and at that point it is not sufficient to prevent compromise.

Stability: Quotas are a superior solution.

Speed: Not an issue for /usr, which is rarely written to.

Integrity: We have journaled filesystems now. If you lose a filesystem it is almost certainly because the device has gone bad and needs to be replaced. For last-ditch system recovery, an initrd solution like Dracut works better, since it can solve problems involving the root partition.

Size: Modern computers can boot from any size partition.

fsck: Preventing fsck is no longer useful. It doesn't take an hour like it used to. If there was a power interruption I would prefer to fsck all my filesystems anyway.
Dunno about RAM, I believe it takes mSATA drives. Waiting for someone to open it up to see how viable it is to upgrade.
Ubuntu is probably the most optimized distro for the ARM architecture out there. Canonical is really pushing support for ARM.
I love Stockholm. It's an awesome city and despite the high taxes, it's very progressive in terms of trends. In other words, there are many early adopters there, which is something that is very unique to SV.

Also, much of Swedish design is built on simplicity. You can see this everywhere from web design, to store design and of course furniture. The only downside, as others have pointed out, is that its extremely expensive.

EDIT: Discrepancies around definitions of conservatism.
As already mentioned, the WKS/DAYS should probably formatted in the same way.

Maybe I missed something, but how do you know what you are bidding on, just from the button? Or does this need to be embedded somewhere that already has the product details, like a blog post or something?
Third option: Inman pays Oatmeal Studios -- either a consideration for using their trademark, or buys the trademark outright.

Fourth option: Inman licenses his content to Oatmeal Studios, who then handle the greeting card side of the business and pay him a royalty.

(I have no idea of the relative turnover of these two businesses so I don't know if a licensing option is feasible.)
Isn't this "Meego" based. There's an Android logo at 0m50 http://cl.ly/image/2D1l2X470d3C does it means it will run Android apps or that is an Android fork?

Edit. http://www.slashgear.com/jolla-planning-3-5-phone-with-andro... It will run Android apps. Nice.
I have a problem with the quote "no rails required" because I would interpret that in a general sense, i.e. a Car does not need rails. To me, a tube just sounds like a special kind of rail.

However, all the most plausible theories I have heard so far, and my own possibility, all rely on some sort of (although not traditional) rails.
I did something similar with a local music zine (a long time ago in a galaxy far away) and made a bit of cash, but nowhere near as much as you.

So, while I congratulate you on your resourcefulness and success, I think this advice is very particular to where you live, whether you even like local music, do you understand page layout design, good writing etc.

It's a good story (my daughters thought it was cool that their dad was in the local music scene) but lousy advice.

As for going door to door asking businesses for work? Nope. It sounds perfectly plausible but doesn't pan out so well in reality (I've done it). Wearing my business blazer, a pocket full of business cards and a really great deal on a small business website, I went from business to business all. day. long. I explained who I was, what value I could bring to their company etc but got nothing.

Why? I think because they had no intent to buy, or even an expressed interest or need. I was just one of many people walking in through their door trying to sell them something.

And that's the thing: if you are a local business with a brick and mortar establishment in a reasonably trafficked area, you are going to have as many people visit your store to sell you something as to buy something. Most times they will politely listen to your pitch, take your card, then never speak to you again.

So again, while the advice sounds plausible, it's not actually a way to make quick cash or even build a client base. Even if you want to make money "badly enough".

P.S. Desperation doesn't sell.
Discussion from just 8 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812496 (with some great insights from grellas[1])

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812496
A15 is 40-65% faster than Atom and uses half the power consumption, according to your link. So yes, I'd say that's pretty impressive at its level.

Also, this specific Chromebook is higher quality than those netbooks. It's more like an ultrabook in terms of design. Not to mention that it has twice the battery life of those netbooks under normal usage.
I realise you've hit "someone is wrong on the internet" territory, and thus seem to be just ranting. But when you are telling me that peoples conceptual models of how to use email are flawed... you are losing credibility.

Computers should bend to people, not people to computers.

Quoting stats from your email accounts doesn't actually mean anything. You can't possibly make the claim you are making, only the sender knows if the email was 'finished' or not, not the receiver.

I didn't actually suggest any UI changes, only that existing UX (as in the experience) seems sub-optimal, because problems still occur.
I got mine last week, and I've been using it as my main machine since then.

I put on a small Debian-based chroot and installed Guacamole[1]*, so I can use my favourite editor and X11 programs within a Chrome tab.

Compiling large C/C++ programs takes a while, but the Go compilers (what I mostly use) work really well. And I can always SSH into beefier machines (Linode/University) if I ever need to.

This replaced a Thinkpad which cost 5 times as much and broke in less than 13 months. So far I'm not missing the Thinkpad. (Well, maybe the 3 button TrackPoint)

[1] http://guac-dev.org
i look forward to the day when a law is written in a formal language (such as mathematics), such that a machine can be used to apply it, and that no ambiguity exists. Thus, you can a head of time, tell if a deed will break any existing law before performing the deed.
Well, the plan for CA was several times the cost per mile of most high speed track built in Europe: something was wrong with that, regardless of anything else.
Musk has said that he doesn't want to be involved in Hyperloop, and after publishing it next month will just leave it up to others to build/test/commercialise/etc. I guess he doesn't have much time being two CEOs and a CTO.
Intel chipsets and processors have gotten very, very good with power management. With reasonable screen brightness and Wifi enabled, my X220 idles at ~8.5W. With a 90Wh battery this gives me ~10 hours on a plane, which is more than I can handle in one go. A tablet TDP (iPad) is about 5W which is 2x better. This is 2X better for a device with smaller screen, no spinning drive, no keyboard, and a much weaker processor.

Intel has been improving their power efficiency dramatically in the past few years. They have the most advanced fabs and arguably the best technology in the semiconductor industry. All the talk is about ARM and low-power computing but Intel is, watt for watt, a serious threat in the high-performance computing market.
Problems:

Digging a tunnel takes years and cost billions (see London underground new tunnel http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16320945)

Making the tunnel fit the carrage = no room for emergency

Security (terrorists + bomb = nightmare at speed of sound)

Windows? What would you look at?

If he thinking of just goods (not people) then some of these problems are much simpler - the tunnel could be less than 1m in radius.

My wild idea is that he is going to us a rail gun to fire drones up a couple of KM into the air, these then glide down to mini airports. Replace freight railroads.
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Yes, the idea is that you already have a page and then you embed this button.

Much like those PayPal, Stripe etc Pay Now buttons
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This idea sudden occurred me 17 hours ago, and I then spent 14 hours to make it come true.

Any suggestion?

To do: embeding feature (iframe)
I'm curious what your overall point is?

The purpose of new innovations is to improve something. It's possible that in the very short term something like wouldn't be the most cost effective thing, however it's not about the very short term, but rather about the potential. In most existing transportation systems, the potential of the system without large changes has probably mostly been realized. The potential of something like this may be much larger, which is why it would be worthwhile.
I hope Sailfish implements the Swipe UI from N9. That was one of the best UI paradigms in recent years.
> I don't follow the first bit.

On the second thought I think this might just be a sign of my confusion in the topic. I somehow always conflated the two ideas into one.
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That's a 6x larger battery, and it most likely scores only 3x faster in browser tests (this dual core A15 can score under 700 ms in Sunspider). And that's disregarding the much lower price and weight of this machine.
>The media has portrayed me as paranoid

>I planted tiny POV video cameras and sound recorders on myself, some of my dogs, all around my property, in my cars, on my boats, at the Studio 54 bar in Orange Walk, on trees, in bushes, – everywhere I could...

Is it only me who thinks he's a teeny-tiny bit paranoid?
You and me both. I miss it whenever I use a phone that isn't my N9. It just seems so natural. The actual shape of the phone helped a lot though - I don't think it would work as well if the front was completely flat.
It does. As a nice addition, you can also control stuff within apps directly from the multitask grid.
In what ways do you consider Sweden a conservative country? It is very socially liberal and while it's finances are run mostly sanely, it has a huge re-distributive welfare state.
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INAL, but i as a reasonable person would compare a website to a business/restraunt that is open to the public.

A member of the public can enter and look around the area that is obviously designated as public. There are areas in the restraunt that is marked "staff only" - some may have locks, some may not. But anyone who is not a staff entering those areas (whether they broke the lock, or just opened the door coz it was unlocked) is trespassing.

Now, imagine a website in the above scenario. If the administration area of the website is "unlocked" and a user "stumbled" into it, is it still a crime?
A loaded question - "excessively" implies you think it's wrong. Of course you can obscure meaning by using non-descriptive names, but I use a lot of one-letter identifiers if the context is enough to easily interpret them.

For example, all http handlers in Go are the form of:

type HandlerFunc func(ResponseWriter, *Request)

And when you code such a function the arguments are normally named "w" and "req", ("writer", "request"). To give them longer names would be wasteful, as their types already tell you all that you need to know. (I think the reason you don't just call it "r" is to prevent confusion with a "reader"/"response".) Furthermore, this idiom is so widely applied that it reduces your cognitive load considerably (naming things is hard!). When the type already expresses the purpose, don't bother thinking of a good name.
Since this law was passed in 1986 (according to the article), Hacker News, Google, and Facebook were started. I'm not impressed by the supposed chilling effect.

The article's claim about the chilling effect was, of course, highly specific to the author's personal area of expertise. This is based on something I can't comment on: that the details of weev's case are generalizable to all cybersecurity researchers. I don't know the details of weev's case; do you think it's generalizable? My quick Google yielded me a Wired article that ended with weev laughing about how it might be illegal and the likely possibility it would damage a legitimate business's stock price. Is that a thing all cybersecurity researchers do?

I mean, I agree that the law sucks. That's fairly self-evident here. But what, exactly, do you guys want done about it? "Oh no, something bad happened 26 years ago and I just realized it because of something that happened recently" is weak. Talk to the EFF. Talk to your Congresscritters. Ask other people to do so. Sound and fury signify nothing. If you feel so terribly chilled, explain it to the politicians and get some lawyers working on the problem. I'd suggest civil disobedience, but you probably don't have the courage to get arrested if you're busy being chilled.

Yes, it sucks to be a case study. Cancer patients go through it all the time: the result? LESS CANCER. That's what the courts are also for. You go up there and say, "My situation shows how this law is stupid." You take a beating as all the relevant details are dragged out and scrutinized so that they can be sure. And hopefully, they agree with you and set precedent that the law is, in fact, stupid and fewer people have to deal with it in the future.
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I vaguely remember there was some discussion of this in 'Metamagical Themas' by Douglas Hofstader. It's been a while since if I read it, but if I remember correctly he drew some parallels between law and provability in maths - basically, you can either have a system of law which cannot cover everything you want to make laws about, or you have a system of law which does, but which has some undecidable laws. Feel free to correct if I've misremembered.
I quite like the way they've extended the concept from the original xkcd comic at http://xkcd.com/936/
When fluids flow, there is a `no slip` condition at surfaces - that is the velocity of fluid at a surface is the same as the surface`s velocity. So in a stationary tunnel, the fluid may be moving at an average of 300 meters per second, but will be stationary at the wall. This makes a shear stress in the fluid and is what causes drag. In fact, making the air gap between the carraige and wall smaller will increase this drag since there is less distance for this transition to happen between stopped and fully moving air.

Consider if each carriage is pulling 30m of air a long distance at great speed. Consider if instead of the air moving against a stationary tunnel, a 30 meter section of tunnel was moving at the same distance and speed through stationary air. The drag on this would be high, much higher than a car at highway speeds.
I appreciate that the following link is to material which some people here may object to, but it's all legal as far as the law is concerned so grab some popcorn and start reading:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/652661-John-McAfee-aka-St...
Interesting speculation by Jacques, but I think the combination of rail run and Concorde is a rail gun that fires hypersonic motor-less capsules that glide to destination.

Smaller landing zones, no air pollution, much less noise...

It's also a good combination of Telsa (rail gun) and SpaceX (rockets can be seen as motorized slugs).

Only limit I see with this system is that I'm not sure anyone could withstand the acceleration.
It's more an explanation than excuse: habits from BASIC childhood. 10 A = 0 20 A = A + 1 30 goto 10 ;)
Yes in technical programming if your implimenting a known equation for example ohms law you shoudl use varaible names that map to the defacto ones used in textbooks - docuemting at the start of function the equation and a reference to some standard text would probaly be a good idea as well)

Also i and n for array index's and x,y,z for cordinates are good examples of where short variable names are good.
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Yay Stockholm!

Another Stockholm start-up that looks interesting is Gavagai http://gavagai.se/
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Yes - we've just been royally raped by this. It's mainly down to virtualization and MSDN license coverage though.

Screw them - we're moving some of our shit to Java/Linux (some of it is already there).
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I believe that you could probably extend Godel's theorems to argue that this isn't feasible.
Something I learned early on was the importance of stepping back and looking at the bigger picture.

A good developer improves this over time, but it's far too easy to get yourself neck-deep in code and lose focus of what's important.

As a measure, if I find myself getting stuck, what I like to do is go back to the basic level and ask "what is the purpose of this?" This may involve getting more information about the feature/bug, or just talking through different scenarios. I also look at the likelihood of a scenario occurring. Sometimes, you're spending time trying to solve something that nobody knows or cares about.
I know a lot of companies use Survey Monkey - http://www.surveymonkey.com

To be honest I didn't understand what you did at first, the name didn't help. You don't want to be vague as you have to find out if you're actually solving a problem.
Terrorists + bomb = nightmare (regardless of speed).

By this logic Planes are a bad idea too (no room for emergency, high speed, tiny windows with nothing to look at)...
First time I read it wouldn't be an evacuated tunnel. Next thought of technology it could use then then jumps to maglev-like technology; Imagine a Tesla vehicle (or others) that can hop onto a network that brings the vehicle onto a maglev system, reducing friction (and other elements wouldn't really effect it, especially if you decided to put a canopy over it) ; Anyone else realize he may have dropped a hint in this video (http://video.ft.com/v/1974478965001/Elon-Musk-from-electric-... ) that we might see flying cars?

You'd need on-ramps, where a minimum speed is required before merging with the main line, and of course you'd only build on/off ramps at major hubs. The only issue I see being you're not using tar then, and therefore costs of raw materials would be higher, at least initially, and would likely last longer than tar.

Being cheaper than highspeed rail could fit into this equation because its the vehicle owners paying for the vehicle, and no trains are being build for it - so actual money going into the system, the synergies that would exist, might be greater - though putting it how he does is creating lots of attention. :)

Maybe the hyperloop refers to a an on/off ramping system, where you get accelerated to a certain speed... Fun speculating. And time for tea and breakfast.
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If/when self-driving cars succeed in being ready for public consumption, I think a huge opening for revolutions in transportation gets opened up.

- If you can call your car, it can park farther away. Parking is one of the biggest problems with cars in urban areas.

- Instead of calling of your car, you could just call a car. A self driving car and a self driving taxi are pretty similar, but one can run 24hrs and reduce the parking problem more.

- Computers can do things people can't do. Once enough auto-automobiles are out there, there can be autoauto only "features". The same square footage of tarmac might be able to move cars much quicker. Maybe autoautos can handle 200km speeds. Maybe they can cooperate to make traffic smoother. Maybe they can link together like trains to overcome congestion.

There is nothing quite as good as having a car to take you exactly to and from where you want to go. If self driving cars can really mix with human drivers everywhere they may have a nice smooth path to innovate on gradually. Big vision plans for revolutionizing transport are so centralized, so premeditated.

edit: one more thing. self driving cars interact in an interesting way with public/mass trasport, especially if people dont own their own. It may reduce the demand by competing more directly on one hand. OTOH, it will compliment by providing the last-mile component.
> In the US, lobbying is constitutionally protected, without which citizens would have no guaranteed way to communicate with elected officials.

Yet de-facto in the day-to-day it is not you-and-me average citizens lobbying at the highest level but HugeCorps because they have the connections and means to pay the right lobbyists that actual average citizens could never afford...

And the very word itself already has a bad connotation. It is not "democratizing" or "participating", it is "lobbying" and nobody associates a positive, generally beneficial democratic process with that.
Do you know the speed differences that could occur in a tunnel system like this, versus an "open" on-ground maglev system?
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Additional video, showing Sailfish OS in use:
http://www.katsomo.fi/?progId=154747
Person in video is Marc Dillon, CEO of Jolla.
That's the only limit? To big guns that fire people?!
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Often in many countries conservatives = high taxes, welfare state. Not on the social issues though.
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