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I use Squid on Android. I learned to adjust the options to suit me well. I use my stylus for writing or drawing and use my fingers to lasso objects to move them or resize them. My stylus has an eraser function when I use the back end of the stylus.

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I also use Squid. It's the app I'm talking about it. It effectively holds your data hostage and if there were any other alternative, I'd use it. The UI is also quite bad and the functionality just isn't there compared to the best iOS stylus notetaking apps.


What a perfect blinding weapon. I am sure this would be capable of permanently blinding hundreds of people silently. But no worries, China signed the Geneva Blinding Weapons protocol. Lol. China will do whatever they want.


It is all about national security for China. China will not tolerate a unified Korea that is friendly to America. It is in China's interest to keep the Koreas divided and have influence over NK. NK not only provides a buffer from the US army but serves as a threat that ties up the military of USA, Japan and SK. Kind of like the way they use Pakistan to tie down India. Why would China help out and do a real sanction of NK. A real sanction of NK by cutting off food and fuel would collapse the regime. Followed by a unification under South Korean leadership. The last thing they want. China will continue to pretend to sanction NK or say that they have no influence over NK. Always ask what is in it for China to figure out what is going on.


I agree with your comments. But who knows, maybe one day China will decide that it should be a force for good in the world rather than a regional bully. Thankfully, the one-party-one-leader system of China allows for quick change in its policies. And regarding what is in it for China? A peaceful, democratic, free country is in the interest of every person in the world.


There is no good or bad in politics. Just interests.

If there really were "good countries," then Saudi Arabia would not be getting any support.


i am a sprint customer and i hate this move. the android market may be chaotic but there is more freedom for the user. this is a dangerous move for sprint. android will only gain in market shares baring any great upset in the current trends.


This is besides the point. Android seems to sell 3-4 phones to each iPhone sale (citation needed) so sprint is cutting itself off from 20ish percent of the market. That's what matters. Quenching the bleeding might be another perspective.


These tests are not as meaningful because it is not country vs country. But countries vs citiy states. Hong Kong, and Singapore are basically cities not countries. If South Korea only tested Seoul instead of the whole country, they would have also looked better.


Dropbox is indispensable to me. It is my main sync method of my most important Keynote outliner file. I am impressed by their obvious technical mastery as well as their clear idea of how things could turn out and how they could find their niche.


Dropbox is one of my most important tool. It allows me to switch between my linux and window computers without having to manually having to transfer data. It is simple to use and understand.


I spent the last three days converting my xps dell laptop from vista to ubuntu 8.10. I had to spend over 25 hours to get it to work properly. Things like trying to figure out how to make my dual monitor system work with only one of them rotated 90 degrees. It took so much searching and reading to make sure that what I was doing was not going to mess up everything else up to the point. I am no novice computer user. The task of getting ubuntu to run right is not trivial.


I spent 4 hours troubleshooting my neighbours computer (it's full of spyware). We basically got no-where with it in that time.

The task of getting Windows to run right is not trivial.


Linux advocates should pay attention to the difficulties of installing and maintaining a Linux system in a modern computing environment instead of patting themselves on the back because Windows does some things worse. I gave up the first few times I tried to install Ubuntu. When I finally got it running I was unemployed and had the time to wrestle with it.

Flash and wireless still suck.


Add to the top of it a properly installed Radeon videocard and you get 30 hours in total.


You should blog the process ... so the next person only has to spend 20 hours


I purged my dell laptop of xp and installed ubuntu over it. Love everything about it except the loss of wireless. It even gave me 9 extra gigs on my hard disk, 6 more than the advertised disk space!

If the linux community could step it up on the driver front for wireless cards it would be a beautiful thing.


The problem is often the manufacturers, not the people who write drivers:

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay


it really depends. my last install was awesome. It's really good at figuring out the partitioning for you. (I did a dual-boot, and I thought I'd have to manually partition but didn't because it knew what it was doing.)

The actual install is fast and comprehensive. It sets up a lot for you. I remember having to install X on Free BSD not that long ago (maybe 5 years).

I've had good luck with wifi cards, but that is still sometimes an issue.

25 hours seems like a really long time (Unless you're counting hours of ignoring it while it updates and installs all the programs you pick. That is pretty slow.)

I'm not sure what you were doing, but I've set it up on several laptops and desktops and never had to spend more than 2ish hours of my time getting it setup. (Maybe a little more to install and configure everything.)


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