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Seems to me that GoDaddy did the right thing. The texts were unsolicited and based on some of the claims in the story, weren't actually targeted at voters. Not sure why this is considered news, although the way I read the title, GoDaddy did a bad thing. Perhaps texts should be changed to spam.

Perhaps I have abnormally large pockets, but the nexus 7 fits easily in my front pocket of my jeans. I don't buy any particular brand (usually whatever is cheap/on sale at Walmart that they have in my size) and this is the case for shorts as well.

I find I use the nexus 7 far more than any other tablet I have (though admittedly, I don't have an iPad, and even the iPad mini is slightly priced out of my "purchase without thinking twice" range. The only time it isn't ideal for me is when I'm trying to read schematics. At that point I tend to grab one of the 10" tablets I have.

Cyanogen has had this for quite a while. I used it on my Gtablet and it worked pretty well.

Being as the A10 is armv7, it's already possible to run more on it than on the Pi. Let us move forward, not backward.

You mean like all the Allwinner boards? Closest you're going to come to the price is ~50USD. I doubt the Chinese have the VideoCore GPU available to them (they use Mali) so, no.

My hope is that it would at least get ARM to open up more of the Mali stuff, but based on my interpretation (and experience) there is nothing extremely special between this announcement and every other ARM board. The meaty GPU bits that are the really fun and interesting bit are still locked away in a firmware blob.

But you have the physical DVD. You don't have a physical copy of the books that they wiped. Or you do. I know I have some just for the convenience

They probably won't officially support it because it is a consumer device. If you want Ubuntu on it, it will be community supported, or ask Samsung to do the work/pay them to port and support it.

Miguel IS a Gnome/Mono guy. Or at least he was a gnome guy, and his contributions have helped many people all over the world.

The only Mac experience I have personally is a core duo version (one of the first intel MacBook Pro) and then listening to the coworker's air. I'm glad to hear that newer ones are quieter, and that's definitely going to weigh in on my next "workhorse" laptop.

That isn't what I'm comparing though. My use case is obviously different. For me, I'm working on software, I'm compiling software. On an ARM machine with no moving parts, this is a silent activity. On every other machine, this is far from silent.

I brought up the Air mostly because I didn't know what the noise was when he started the game. I thought that the Air didn't have any moving parts. In fact, I'm still debating getting one, but a machine that's silent at 250 that can do what I want it to is a much faster decision than one that is ~1000.

I know my use case isn't typical, but it is the one I rely on when deciding what to get for myself, and silent is good for my needs, and how much noise the computer makes when I've got all cores running on a compile is a factor, for your needs it may not be, or you may not do the same type of work.

The point I'm getting at is that no matter what I do on a machine with no moving parts, it's going to be silent. An older laptop on eBay may be more useful for some people, and I'll never fully move away from a workhorse machine until ARM performance is on par, but it's still nice to have when she's sleeping and I'm still mulling over a fix.

I have a thinkbook. I love it to death, but I can't leave it on for more than 15-30 minutes before the sound of the fan going annoys me too much. Same with the MacBook Air for that matter. A friend of mine has one and as soon as he launched WoW on it, the fans kicked in and I was amazed at how loud the Air was.

These have no fans. No moving parts to worry about. That is one of their biggest advantages. I can use an ARM netbook while my SO is sleeping next to me. Not so for an actual laptop.

Oh, and if anyone is curious, it looks like in the ChromiumOS sources, the overlay for this is "overlay-daisy".

For those not familiar with building chrome, it should be something like export BOARD=daisy before doing the setup/build steps.

Well, actually, part of doing it IS documenting it so that others can enjoy Gentoo on their machine.

I normally do blog posts when I first get a machine, the unboxing and so forth, but documenting normally goes somewhere on the gentoo documentation site. Or possibly our new wiki.

And for the record when fun topics come up like ARM based hardware, or Linux stuff in general (I'm not much if a web guy, I prefer lower level work) I tend to visit the comments more than a couple times.

I've got one on preorder. I'm a gentoo dev in my spare time, and I definitely intend to get Gentoo running on it. I kind of have a leg up though since Chrome/ChromiumOS is built on Gentoo. In that regard, it already does run Linux, just their custom spin.

Mobile isn't just 3.5" displays. And some of us DO need to log in and do things while we are on the go, we don't get to sit at a coffee shop and whip out our MacBook Air every time there is an issue.

Actually the processor itself is normally fairly cheap, the LCD is normally the largest price (or storage, depending on what type and how much space is provided.)

There are many reasons why you'd want to allow an older version, such as there simply isn't a newer version available.

Just to give an example, Flash on ARM (non-Android) is old, however, most of the attacks won't work, due to the different architecture (that's not to say it's safe, just that most people aren't targeting non-android ARM devices yet.)

The odds of seeing any sort of update for it (I think, but don't quote me on it, it's version 10 or 11) are slim to none based on Google not releasing a version of Chrome for non android devices, nor does Adobe do the work of preparing Flash for these devices.

I'm not saying these machines are worry free, but I definitely don't concern myself near as much as for my amd64 boxes

As someone who has never visited good reads, you have the ratings in parenthesis, but, what are they out of?

(4.11) doesn't really tell me much, is that 4.11 out of 5, or 4.11 out of 10? (To pick a random rating).

Yes, I can not be lazy and visit the site to find out, but if you are leaving the comment up to be helpful, it would be appreciated to clarify their rating scheme for those of us who aren't familiar.

Microsoft got most of the grief because of security issues, which weren't dependent on specific hardware configurations ( at least, not always). Sure the BSOD was "normally" caused by a bad driver and Microsoft took flack for that, but on my single Windows machine that I have, I can't recall the last time I saw a BSOD.

While I don't use facebook's messaging except on the extremely rare occasion that someone messages me when I have their web page open, I don't think sharing a URL with someone means I LIKE the content, there are many different reasons to share a URL.

I'm not taking any side, by my own personal habit for a follow on twitter is to look at who followed me's stream before following back. I'd hope others would do the same rather than automatically following back.

It entirely depends on your usage. My coworker uses them for turn by turn and that works great for him. I use it for transit, and it's not so great.

I get that they wanted to open up transit for other apps (or couldn't build it in for some reason) but I really do hate the amount of times I have to tap to get bus info now. I would much rather the integration.

For this, Google Maps works great, except when the bus site isn't working properly, which tends to be once a year when we have a massive influx of people come to town.

If they did I wouldn't hesitate one second to buy it. I posted a comment on here recently about all the steps I had to go through just to try to get bus directions now with the Apple Maps app. Even if it worked the number of times I have to tap something else just to get to the directions is silly. And not well integrated at all. With google maps its just get directions, where from, where to, what type of transportation, and then the arrow button (go). With apple it's get directions, then choose bus, then where from, where to, go, wait for the App Store to open, find the routing app you've purchased in the list, tap route, hope that the app got the directions correctly from the maps app (this step I've never completed successfully). And finally get the directions.

There is a serious lack of integration.

COULD do that, or you could have all the information that they already submitted (it was more than just a vCard). I would rather not have to proof read all the OCR (there are hundreds of people at FTF)

At FTF (Freescale Technology Forum) in 2011 at least (didn't go this year), used them on everyone's name tags and booths, so rather than passing out business cards, you used the iPod to scan them and it would send you a nicely formatted email along with the contacts for easy importing into whatever contacts you used. It was about the only time I felt they were done right.

And if you scanned the codes that were given in the different tracts, you were also sent the PDFs and slides of that tract.

Except it also works with the Mac via... iMessage (formerly iChat). Sadly I have a really old Mac so I can't use it there

I'm not so sure that cutting off access to play has as much to do with the popularity as much as vendors "abandoning" their devices.

The only way I can run a "modern" version of Android on my Viewsonic Gtablet is by using CM, and I don't care that I don't have access to google play on it. The Amazon marketplace is free to download and install and the apps work great.

Ah. Okay. I'm reading/responding on my phone and I thought the i was an L.

The intel chip is definitely interesting.

Indeed it depends on what your needs/wants are. There are still quite a few people out who do expect an ARM device to have the same performance as an x86 one.

There are actually 2 different ARM cores that can be licensed, one is power efficient, and one is for performance. As far as I know, "everyone" licenses the power efficient one. I'd be interested in the performance one, but I'm not sure who licenses it. I could see Calxeda licensing it since they are in the server space, but I don't believe they are.

What is the Razrl? Google search isn't being very helpful.

I haven't done much testing of ARM versus Intel, but the experience that I do have with ARM, compiling software wise, using an i.MX6Q (Freescale), it takes roughly 3 1/2 hours (softfloat) to build Firefox 15.

While the current market of ARM devices won't win any speed tests, there are more features to it than just power consumption. My mx51 netbook has no moving parts and doesn't burn my legs even when its been running a long compile (such as Firefox) versus the Core i7 I have that can build it much faster however it cuts the battery life almost in half. There is also the fan noise when those cores start churning, not to mention the heat.

I really do hope they do.

I've been using the beta and all through it, there were no routing apps available for my area (San Antonio, so not exactly a tiny city, according to Wikipedia we are the 7th largest population wise)

Now that iOS 6 is out, I decided to give the Maps app a shot again. So I pulled it up, thought for a second since I am used to the old interface, clicked the wrong thing a couple times, finally got to where I needed to go. Scrolled through the saved list of directions that I've used in the past (very helpful). Clicked the bus button. Got routed to the App Store. There were 8 or so apps to pick from. Which ones sucked and which ones didn't, no idea. It's too new to tell.

Picked one at random, it's 99 cents, which is fine, I don't mind buying apps. It installs. And then sits there. Wait for a bit, maybe it's thinking or something (I'm on an iPhone 4, not 4S or 5). Okay, it's not. Go back into the maps app. It hasn't saved where I am, I'm back to the default screen. This time I remember so I go back to the directions. Click the bus button. Get routed back to the App Store again. This time the app I have says ROUTE. So I click it. It shows some introduction screen. I click the start button. Directions are blank.

Go back into maps, back to the directions, click the bus button, back to the App Store, click the route button, and the in the routing app, are two very different addresses than the ones I entered in to the Maps app. Scratch my head wondering how that happened.

Close Maps, close the routing app, delete the routing app, launch maps.google.com, get the bus schedule almost immediately.

I have no idea what anyone else's experiences are, but I have never been so disappointed.

Now as mentioned, I'm still on the iPhone 4, and I'm at the tail end of the contract, I believe next month is when I qualify for the upgrade without paying full price. I'm seriously looking at the S3, although the new report of the exploit via NFC is a bit troubling. I'm not particularly worried about the apps I've purchased on the iPhone. I've spent maybe 150 on apps on the almost 2 years I've had the phone, and as I was talking about it to a friend, he pointed out that as a smoker, I spend more than that per month on cigarettes, which really put things into perspective for me.

Never has Apple tastes so sour.