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Someone should graph the distribution of maximum throughputs. Since the fix was manual there's the possibility that some resistors were soldered better than others. If that's the problem then resoldering would fix it, although I certainly wouldn't attempt it personally... Well, that's much...

Ok, someone needs to start packing Pandora parts in bags rather than boxes, that's just asking for trouble. Also, a volcano?!?! WTF did Craig et al. do to have such comically bad karma??? Was the last company retreat a visit to a flamethrower shooting range combined with a kitten mill? I'm...

IMHO, what should be done, if the Pandora doesn't ship by 4/1, is to select a very vocal, but impatient forum goer (difficult, I know), preferably with a very low order number. Next, ship them a package set to arrive on 4/1, with a tracking number e-mailed from the official address (be...

As my needs evolve, I find myself needing what amounts to a smartphone in the coming months and was starting to wonder what use I'll have for my Pandora when it eventually arrives. The beauty of Linux is that you can do most anything using most anything, so obviously that makes it difficult to...

With the Pandora's battery life & function most people could easily make due with 50% of the battery life, so 25-75% charge, which would only degrade about 5% per year. So it'd last for a decade or two before you'd notice. Given that this has been discussed several times there should be...

Pandora is one of those names that you have to wonder if it's even trademarked. It's a little ridiculous that I frequent two sites that differ only in TLD. Of course, it's a neat myth and well known so I can see why people like to make references to it. If every name were truly original then...

I think that this is a very good idea, and should likely ship standard. Either display owner information on the boot screen, or if someone enters an incorrect password or doesn't type one within 30 seconds or so. The default message could say to mail it to Open Pandora LTD, who in turn would...

China is pretty far from being the "#1 economic powerhouse right now", they're #4. #1 and #2 are the US & EU by far (GDP is ~4 times that of China), and Japan is #3 (as of 2008). Per capita they're very mediocre. In any case, boycotting Chinese products isn't going to help improve labor...

I can only surmise that marketing (XX hours of battery life!) and simple programming is the only reason most portable devices charge all the way to 100%. I've got a drawer semi-full of old lithium ion powered devices rendered useless by this practice. IMHO the default should be something like...

But one day they will be right... Unless they quit giving estimates, at which point the trolls would become a lot more believable.

Meh, the lion's share of accidental deaths for adults are car accidents. Falls, overdose, drowning, fire, gun accidents, gas leaks, medical accidents, and machinery are the next most common (respectively). Jokes aside, I would expect almost everyone who can afford to shell out >$300 on a...

Humans have a type I survivorship curve, so that approach doesn't work. For the Pandora's target demographic, accidental death is the most likely way to go, and that's generally 1/1000 per year. So, you could estimate that four preorderers never got their Pandora. For the next two months...

Hmm... it seems like it might be a good idea to create a torrent of the popular (or perhaps all) homebrew games and utilities after the first week or so. That way a person can prepare an SD card before they get their Pandora (for the slackers that preordered on the second or third day, like...

According to Okular's FAQ it does not create standard PDF annotations. PDFEdit might work, but it doesn't appear to be that useful for note-taking. libHaru looks promising, but I couldn't find anything that uses it. Import from/Export to PDF works, but the annotations are embedded (i.e. can't...

Xournal basically lets you use PDFs as background images. It store annotations is it's own separate, uniquely formatted file. It's good for tablet PCs, but I'm not sure I'd want to attempt to use it on the Pandora due to the large amount of (slow) image manipulation that it does. For an...

There are two major reasons for using PDF. First, anything can be converted to PDF, such as powerpoint presentations. Second, pretty much any computer can read PDFs, and most can at least read annotations. Okular is quite nice, and is probably a good starting point. Unfortunately, it doesn't...

One major use of the Pandora will probably be note-taking. In that vein, there needs to be a fairly good application for that. Ported desktop software might be passable, but given the Pandora's touchscreen and small screen size an optimized UI is probably necessary. Here are some ideas for...

Well, watching most anime basically requires four things. A player capable of handling the matroska container (no problem AFAIK), AAC audio (IIRC, again not a problem), 720p h264 video (might be an issue), and ASS subtitles (might be an issue). The last two tend to be the biggest problems on...

A PowerTop like utility would probably help immensely, if one can be written for ARM processors. In any case, that's battery life, as in hours/minutes/seconds which is a function of battery charge level and load. Lithium ion "fade" is more precisely declining battery charge capacity in...

Sony puts it in theirs I know. But I'm also kinda stumped as to why people wouldn't want this... I mean, you have a choice of an extra ~20% battery life for a few months followed by a degradation to uselessness, or you can just not use the top 20% of charge capacity and keep your ~80% for...