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The Galaxy 8.9 has a 1280x800 screen, same as the 10.1" model, compared to 1024x600 on my 7". It weighs roughly 100g more. Both of them have ridiculously nice screens, but they're not the same. The 8.9's seems to have better contrast or deeper black levels. On the other hand, just due to the...

The biggest problem I'm seeing is the proliferation of formats and reader applications. My format of choice is .epub, but few ebooks are legitimately available in that format, other than Barnes and Noble's download store. Amazon's .mobi reads fine in Kindle and I suppose that's fine. .PDF, .CBR...

In high school, my geometry teacher had a thing for hitting on 14 year old girls. He seemed like an OK guy, other than the time he got one of those girls pregnant.

Unfortunately, there's only one site that I support where I have complete enough control to absolutely prevent anyone from installing software I truly don't like. Which means that I have to run WMI queries on dozens of machines to find the one where someone reinstalled Acrobat Reader version 8...

Of course it is. It's a cookbook. People don't buy those to learn how to cook. They buy them to look at pictures of food. And then you get to read some doofus celebrity chef's dissertation on why you need to own $3000 worth of special pans and a local source for llama milk and organ meats in...

Photoshop users are paying for a product that supports the ongoing pain of Adobe's shitty security and update practices. As a company, it creates more stupid and unnecessary work for me than any other organization in the last 10 years. The whole company is getting painted with that brush and...

I have a specific level of hatred for Adobe that extends to people who somehow materially support it. Like a small number of other companies, I do not believe that it deserves to exist and I see no problem with judging others whom I believe to be part of the problem.

Between the 7" and 8.9" Galaxy, 10" Xoom, Fire, Nook Color and ipad2, I should be able to find something that agrees with me. If not, I've made arrangements to borrow a Kindle 3G, though in the past I've been annoyed with the slowness of e-ink screen updates.

All hatred is personal. Once you accept that, there's only the question of degree.

I already made my useful and on-topic contribution to the thread. Since Gilbo seems to have gotten his answer, it's as good a place as any to conduct a little Adobe-bashing.

It feels better every single time I type it.

I'm about to start a bit of an experiment. I made good progress on the pyramid of physical books in the general vicinity of my bed over my annual break. With the new year, I've decided that I'm going to do as much as I possibly can with ebooks. I have a number of different platforms and form...

The RIM tablet has gone on sale on RIM's web site for what are theoretically fire-sale prices, $300 for a 32GB model. Judging by discussion on Slashdot, the only thing anyone wants to do is wipe them and load Android. I honestly don't think we're going to have to worry about RIM for very much...

Know how I know you didn't click any of the links?

I checked my Evo and also a Verizon Droid 2. Neither appears to have that option.

I'm just making sure that I blame the right people for Adobe's continued existence.

That should be as easy as adding your code file type to the indexing options. That's one of those things that sounds like it should be a major PITA but is actually really easy to do.

The biggest advantage that comes to my mind for remaining in India, having been a long time US resident, is the possibility that your retirement savings could be stretched into some kind of fortune over there. Of course, if your career path has been largely spent as a contractor, perhaps that...

Former Microsoft bigshot Nathan Myervhold (no I'm not looking up the spelling) did a huge publicity tour for his vanity cookbook project, Modernist Cuisine, last year. If you want a $500 cookbook to tell you how to boil stuff in a bag and then sear it with a blowtorch, it's pretty interesting...

Fuck you right back. And LM and dd and everyone else who support Adobe.

Fixed that for you.

I really don't want to take 40 hours to make a hamburger.

I still buy quite a lot of them. Mostly because there's still a price difference between the USB keyboards and PS/2 versions of the keyboards I like and I'll be damned if I pay an extra $3 just to use a different connector.

I'm almost reasonably certain that I still have some new in box motherboards of that vintage. They're cruddy brands that just happen to have the SiS chipsets my classroom PCs used for years, but if you can't find anything else I'll bet I can come up with something.

I believe that in a very real and quantifiable sense that my life has only gotten worse and worse. I don't expect anything better in the year to come.

Amazon sells Ubiquiti routers, Will. Also, the reality is that yes, you can run an ethernet cable more than 100m and it probably will work. The standard just says it does HAVE to.

That's been my central thesis all along, but of course I'm actually getting paid to mess with this stuff right now. It would be nice to come up with a workable, inexpensive system I could actually recommend.

The insult to injury would be to need two or three appliances to get full functionality. That seems to be the case right now. The devices that can auto-rip mostly suck as players. The devices that stream premium content don't do local data very well. And the devices that do handle local data...

You'd probably be most interested in CyanogenMod then.

Stuff changes. Last I heard, Samsung was backing away from ICS in part due to the fact that it interferes with some Touchwiz (Samsung's custom Android setup) features and partly due to my previously mentioned legal matters.

Because SCSI is a legacy interface. No one makes modern graphics hardware to plug in to EISA slots any more either, and all the systems in the world with a reasonably valid reason to use SCSI were retired two server upgrades ago and replaced with SAS. LM, Android versions are named after...

Ice Cream Sandwich. It's the most current revision of Android and it's basically not available for anything except the Google reference Handset. Samsung has publicly said they have no desire to update their currently shipping products to that revision, which may be because of their legal...

It strikes me that media player appliances are just like mobile phones and home routers: They all suck. It's just a matter of which compromises to make to get some level of functionality. I ran across a discussion of the NBox player today. There are several different revisions of them at price...

The lens isn't really the problem. The pinprick-size CMOS sensor is.

Moving to ICS won't fix anything. Just like installing a new version of Windows, you're basically going to get a new set of features that are predicated on the fact that systems running ICS will be on current hardware. The end result would be much like installing Windows 7 on a computer made in...

I doubt that they're safer at all. The book I use to teach CompTIA Security+ even hand-waves the possibility of network level security for printers. Security is discussed, but generally in the context of document retention and disposal. There's actually a sentence to the effect that there aren't...

The Kindle Fire is disgustingly well integrated into Amazon's services. Unfortunately, that's to the detriment of integration with anything Google has to offer.

I read Starship Troopers as a sort of logical outgrowth of objectivist philosophy. Perhaps not wanking on the same scale as Ayn Rand, but it's as much a soapbox as it is pulp-ish science fiction.

I don't know how anyone could seriously consider going back to local-only printers, especially given the level of utility available in commercial document center-type copiers.

There are plenty of mainstream applications for peer to peer data traffic. Skype is a P2P protocol, and World of Warcraft notably uses Bittorrent to handle updates.

ARM CPUs have made tremendous leaps in the last year, actually. We've gone from 1 or 1.2GHz single core CPUs to 2.5GHz dual and quad core processors in the space of perhaps 18 months. It's debatable that we actually need that kind of horsepower right now, but given the way that mobile platforms...

My set of BSG, including all the extras, webisodes and a pirated set of Caprica in HD since no one seems interested in releasing a proper set on Bluray, clocks in at a svelte 330GB. I also have a copy of the season 4 soundtrack signed by the composer and a print of the "Last Supper" image with...

... and I just thought it was amusing to print out pages of solid color. There's a white paper there, but the short version is that the author was able to make a network printer copy documents sent to print to a remote server, or to just a compromised printer to scan a LAN, find and break in to...

I bought a 4 cubic foot chest freezer and now I have a strategic reserve of beef.

Mozilla has a lot of projects besides Firefox, and most of them don't have any ability to generate revenue. I use the nightly tester tools to keep my addons in line. There are two addons I use all the time that weren't ever updated for Firefox 2.0, let alone anything newer. I think Mozilla...

And against all odds, it's warming up enough here that I have to do something. Guess I'll go buy a chest freezer.

I have to admit I haven't tried using it outside of a quick classroom demonstration since before Windows XP got its first service pack. The fact remains that it's easier to walk people through downloading and installing Crossloop than to explain that they need to go to whatever thingy they use...

My township banned use of grills in rented properties and I'll be damned if I ruin a restaurant grade ribeye on an electric griddle. I don't know who decided what portion I got. Usually if I go over there to work in person they give me a couple porterhouses and I keep those until I can find a...

I keep my brightness at a modest setting, but I frequently use my phone for inappropriate-for-workplace web browsing, to look at ebooks or product manuals and to read email. My phone lasts all day with my normal level and type of use. BUT if I type out a long email or start playing even a very...

That's not Netflix's fault. That's the movie studios being moronic and it's really a very recent development. These days I'm using my subscription to get Blu-Ray versions of stuff I already have on DVD. I'm probably not a big enough fan of "Ran" that I'd buy it again, but it's nice that my rip...