i think you might want a better font for the "I use it" links, they were difficult to read on my screen (it could also be the contrast between the text color and button color)
It's as much a word as anything else in the dictionary. Whether a redundant double-negative is truly "acceptable" is debatable, but hey, that's the English language for you.
Hm, not a lot of linux laptop love so far so I'll throw my hat in. Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it.
The only thing that didn't work with stock ubuntu was the optimus video but with bumblebee it's fine, i only use it to switch off the nvidia anyway since 2d works fine on the intel chip. Also if you give windows a partition it's great for games too.
10 hours of battery life which is probably the most important feature. I never need to worry about bringing a charger when i travel on the weekends. I decided to replace the internal drive with an intel SSD which was spendy, but even after that the price was well below 1k.
I own the original inPulse and the charge lasts about 1 day. That's the main reason why I stopped wearing it. Definitely interested in something I can let go longer with an always-on screen. I'm not a fan of thinking about my watch's charge level.
That's going to be a major hurdle for adoption among a wider audience. Not that they need it to be successful, by the way. But most people already end up charging their mobile phones everyday, then they'll have to keep remembering to charge the watch as well every week... that's not very user friendly.
If the battery lasted one month, that would probably be a good spot to be at.
I wonder if they could make an e-ink display with a layer acting as a solar panel charger at the same time. Maybe they could recharge the watch this way, continuously.
I'm not sure how this is any different than a pastebin service over https. The data is encrypted in teh browser meaning that someone won't be able to snoop (if that's a concern for some reason) but there is nothing stopping the server admins from seeing your data as long as the server is storing the encrypted data and the decryption keys. Am I missing something?
you are missing something, read their project page which states:
"The key is never transmitted to the server, which therefore cannot decrypt data."
but it does seem like the resulting queries could be stored in the servers logs, as the key needs to be part of the request? edit: no it doesn't, I needed to read more :) the key is the anchor part of the URL. neat!
The server doesn't store the decryption keys. However, the server does serve the crypto code which makes any perceived security boundary between the server and client bogus.
If Daisey's story wasn't politically charged, if it was just a whimsical autobiographical human interest story I wonder if people would care as much? I think everything I've read indicated that most if not all things he described actually happened, just not in the way he described or to him. Does it matter that much how he tells it? I don't really think it does personally, to me it was just an enjoying story and even now it didn't sound like he was creating fabrications out of nothing. Ira wants him to to be more explicit about what is truth and what is fiction but does he demand it because this crosses the line from theater into journalism? Since these autobiographical dramatic performances are a regular occurrence on the TAL maybe they should start putting disclaimers on each one? I wonder how much Sedaris and other contributors exaggerate and invent for the sake of comedy and drama?
How can Daisey's story be politically charged? It's only politically charged if we had an Apple party and an anti-Apple party (Slashdot party? Google party?).
Did you listen to the TAL retraction? Some of the key points retracted make all the difference between complete outrage (employment of 12 and 13 year-olds) and disappointment. Did you hear the most emotional scene in his story, of the man with the crooked hand, is a complete fabrication? Did you read the NYTimes article by Duhig and Barboza, which was factually correct, and think that was not enough exposure of the harsh working conditions at these factories? And if you heard the TAL retraction, you surely must've heard the bit where many workers do want to work over 60 hors a week, to make more money. That surely is an interesting factual point that splashes some gray into the black and white matter presented by Daisey.
All works of fiction on TAL are identified as such. IME when Sedaris et all retell their stories, they add comedy and drama via colorful descriptions of their feelings or using exaggerated analogies. However, they don't lie.
Politics in the general sense of politics of power and social activism (not all politics need to involve governments). I didn't read the NYT article but I've probably read enough snippets online to get the gist of it. I guess I'm more skeptical of dramatic stage readings (which this was) more than the average guy on teh street. Also I have no doubts (probably can't prove) that Sedaris makes up stuff that never actually happened for the sake of drama and comedy. Non-fiction just isn't that funny (here is one link I found related to the topic http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20...)
I feel like the default twitter bootstrap color and style scheme is starting to get ridiculously overused, maybe it's all the new startup sites using it or maybe it's because I've been looking at a lot of hacker news links. I doubt that's the feedback you were looking for though :)
Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it. I don't know if the same model is available but I would definitely look into it if you can find it. For Linux I use Mint and you although it uses the Optimus stuff for video bumblebee works great. You don't need to run in NVidia mode to get 3D effects either I only use bumblebee to turn it off. I get 10hours+ of battery life, the keyboard is awesome (chicklet style). I did replace the internal drive with an SSD drive which makes it boot much faster, less than 5 seconds. Also dual boot windows for games and the NVidia graphics are great for that.
EDIT: removed some of my !!!!s since they made this sound like it was written by a teenage girl. (I really do love this laptop)
Another vote for ASUS U31SD!!! (I am also excited like a teenage girl about this laptop!)
I bought it for $650 from Amazon almost a year ago. It is not really an Ultrabook. But, I think it is perfect. The screen size is a 13", it is incredibly light, yet still has a full-size keyboard, all ports you will ever need, and quite A LOT of power (4Gb RAM expandable to 8Gb, 2 cores, 4 hardware threads). I use Ubuntu with Unity, with a lot of browser windows, a heavyweight IDE (NetBeans), lots of terminal windows and it works very snappy. It also never gets hot. The battery life is terrific.. 7-8 hours!
I didn't buy an SSD yet, but I intend to, in a few years when they get cheaper.
I dual boot Windows for gaming, and I've even played some relatively recent video games (like Just Cause 2, Mass Effect 3), with maxed-out resolution on an external monitor. Works like a charm.
Nice! Happy to hear that there is another person running Linux. I honestly get a good 10 hours (or at least that's what the power manager reports). It boots so fast with SSD I don't think I'll ever go back :)
Thanks, will look this one. My favorite machine is still an eeepc1000, but since then, all i saw from Asus was crap. hopefully they are back to decent designs
