You should try helping starving children at third world countries instead of a bunch of shiny gadget owners. I'm sure those kids will appreciate your time and money more than those who could afford these expensive toys
Not a troll! I am serious -- I use it all the time. I use it to sync files between several computers AND Microsoft's servers, so I have a backup of anything important "in the cloud," accessible by Web browser if I ever need it.
I've been doing that with dropbox on my ubuntu box
I have a Moto Q (Win Mobile 6). It does everything I need a phone to do, including retreiving email and information (web pages). It still amazes me how many people who are otherwise intelligent geeks keep on chugging the Apple Koolaid.
any phone except the USD20-30 Nokias can do email and http with opera. The problem lies in user experience. I have seen how my friend uses his Samsung Omnia, requiring him to press that minuscule "windows" button on the top left with his nail, so his finger wouldn't touch anything else in the screen. That windows button then churns out text menu with small fonts, that were packed so close together, causing him having to use his nail again to press one of them.
It's annoying.
It would appear that Nvidia has(as was more or less inevitable) moved away from their WinCE support only stance on Tegra.
What remains to be seen, though, is what their linux support looks like. If all there is is "enough binary blobs to get whatever version of Android the OEM decided to install to boot, and nothing more", that is largely useless. A bunch of OEMs get cheap software. Yay, I'm so happy for them.
Given that this is Nvidia, I'd be shocked if any but the barest GPU driver support is OSS; but if the support isn't good enough to produce third party firmwares and upgrades for these devices, they might as well be Tivoized.
Why oh why, would the likes of always want to put 3rd party firmware on almost everything. Yesterday it was wireless router, then there were mobile phones. What would you expect? 3rd party firmware for G-Shocks ?
Yes, I agree that manufacturer should not create artificial limitation for us to install alternative firmwares or OSs on devices that we own. But they shouldn't be mandated to provide support to you. If you really want support from them, you can always be their OEM partners, I'm sure they will help you to run their hardware on whatever version of android or ubuntu you decide to use.
I have a system with a Radeon 9800 Pro card in it, no problems so far with Ubuntu.
A BenQ Joybook with X300, and a Toshiba Satellite with HD3470. And I have been running ubuntu since 7.10 to 9.10 with ATI drivers in these machines. Issues, such as flickering video and incompatibility between 3D acceleration and Compiz do exist you know. I can only Google Earth on top of compiz fine only just recently (9.04 & 9.10) if I'm not mistaken. Xinerama support, which was excellent in 8.xx became unusable in 9.04. I can't hook the notebook to projector during the 8.xx series if compiz is running.
So Afghan, Pakistani, Saudi, and Yemeni INTERPOL agents are now allowed to carry weapons and explosives into the US with impunity? Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?
What's the difference between US Interpol agent and Afghan, pakistani, Saudi, and Yemeni Interpol agent? Do they more likely to become rogue? Do you have any proof? number? statistic? anything?
The list of complete models must be limited, or you get the chaos of half-assed support and conflicting drivers which exists in the Windows world. Apple has a reputation for ease of use, and part of the reason for that is having very specific models with very specific parts designed to work together. Once you open the gates to allow anyone to put just anything they want in the machine, you have support issues. It's a closed product with limited options.
If Apple products don't suit you, don't use them. Simple as that. But you come across as a maligned Apple-hater when you could just say "Meh, not for me" instead. I would expect better from someone with a low ID.
the grand parent post purpose is to specifically shows that "better quality" as in "apple form" does not have to be as expensive as apple hardware.
To that extent, the post is extremely spot-on
Have you seen their recent blade server technology? While their support is awful, the hardware itself (namely the C-class blades) is pretty impressive.
Amen to that. We deploy clusters of BL460c G1s that runs very smooth. I like how the design that let you remove hard drives without having to dismantle the servers. That is one of the reason why I choose the C-class over IBM's HS blade servers. the iLO2 is also far superior that it's IBM counterpart.
However, if you're going to run lots of HP servers on your data center, having an extended maintenance contract is essential. When one of my HP BL20p crapped out, it takes 2 weeks for HP to get replacement part for the board.
Mine yes. And since the dev environment resides physically on the same network of our production (separated by firewall), our server admins also have local admins to those machines. Software provisions are provided by the server admins, and we strictly monitor installed application on those servers by using software asset management tools. Testing is done not on the dev environment, but on another batch of servers specifically used for UATs, Developers has no local admin right on UAT environment.
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mp3.com? didn't that die as fast as Fred Durst's star power?
Fred Durst had star power?
yes, he became invincible for several second
Let's hope Yahoo will buy facebook next
With that many computers, it's certainly not cold.
I only need a single desktop with a Pentium4 and a GeForce card
Twice? Try three times. I paint my notebook red
I notice they will not give a date for release as they do not want to fall behind expectations.
expectations? what expectations?
Better ads. You're funny :D
You should try helping starving children at third world countries instead of a bunch of shiny gadget owners. I'm sure those kids will appreciate your time and money more than those who could afford these expensive toys
Apple's greatest innovation is... bumper!! To fix their less than great other innovation, the iPhone 4 antenna
I present to you, the iPad Nano!
I want my iPod Mono
Come on, if God was such a freaking fantastic engineer, why the hell did he put a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational zone?
God got drunk occasionally. I mean, have you seen platypus?
Can anybody tell me why they put sun microsystem logo in this article?
Actually, "Microsoft Windows Live Foundation Mobility Series .Net Professional Edition R2 SP1" could be it.
Are we still talking about Microsoft? Or Capcom?
Searching for "The best operating system" on : bing google yahoo ask
Phone book (n): A giant slab of shredded tree that randomly appears on your door step once a year.
Once a year is not really random
You should try Live Mesh.
Not a troll! I am serious -- I use it all the time. I use it to sync files between several computers AND Microsoft's servers, so I have a backup of anything important "in the cloud," accessible by Web browser if I ever need it.
I've been doing that with dropbox on my ubuntu box
I have a Moto Q (Win Mobile 6). It does everything I need a phone to do, including retreiving email and information (web pages). It still amazes me how many people who are otherwise intelligent geeks keep on chugging the Apple Koolaid.
any phone except the USD20-30 Nokias can do email and http with opera. The problem lies in user experience. I have seen how my friend uses his Samsung Omnia, requiring him to press that minuscule "windows" button on the top left with his nail, so his finger wouldn't touch anything else in the screen. That windows button then churns out text menu with small fonts, that were packed so close together, causing him having to use his nail again to press one of them. It's annoying.
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It would appear that Nvidia has(as was more or less inevitable) moved away from their WinCE support only stance on Tegra. What remains to be seen, though, is what their linux support looks like. If all there is is "enough binary blobs to get whatever version of Android the OEM decided to install to boot, and nothing more", that is largely useless. A bunch of OEMs get cheap software. Yay, I'm so happy for them. Given that this is Nvidia, I'd be shocked if any but the barest GPU driver support is OSS; but if the support isn't good enough to produce third party firmwares and upgrades for these devices, they might as well be Tivoized.
Why oh why, would the likes of always want to put 3rd party firmware on almost everything. Yesterday it was wireless router, then there were mobile phones. What would you expect? 3rd party firmware for G-Shocks ? Yes, I agree that manufacturer should not create artificial limitation for us to install alternative firmwares or OSs on devices that we own. But they shouldn't be mandated to provide support to you. If you really want support from them, you can always be their OEM partners, I'm sure they will help you to run their hardware on whatever version of android or ubuntu you decide to use.
I have a system with a Radeon 9800 Pro card in it, no problems so far with Ubuntu.
A BenQ Joybook with X300, and a Toshiba Satellite with HD3470. And I have been running ubuntu since 7.10 to 9.10 with ATI drivers in these machines. Issues, such as flickering video and incompatibility between 3D acceleration and Compiz do exist you know. I can only Google Earth on top of compiz fine only just recently (9.04 & 9.10) if I'm not mistaken. Xinerama support, which was excellent in 8.xx became unusable in 9.04. I can't hook the notebook to projector during the 8.xx series if compiz is running.
So Afghan, Pakistani, Saudi, and Yemeni INTERPOL agents are now allowed to carry weapons and explosives into the US with impunity? Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?
What's the difference between US Interpol agent and Afghan, pakistani, Saudi, and Yemeni Interpol agent? Do they more likely to become rogue? Do you have any proof? number? statistic? anything?
The list of complete models must be limited, or you get the chaos of half-assed support and conflicting drivers which exists in the Windows world. Apple has a reputation for ease of use, and part of the reason for that is having very specific models with very specific parts designed to work together. Once you open the gates to allow anyone to put just anything they want in the machine, you have support issues. It's a closed product with limited options. If Apple products don't suit you, don't use them. Simple as that. But you come across as a maligned Apple-hater when you could just say "Meh, not for me" instead. I would expect better from someone with a low ID.
the grand parent post purpose is to specifically shows that "better quality" as in "apple form" does not have to be as expensive as apple hardware. To that extent, the post is extremely spot-on
Have you seen their recent blade server technology? While their support is awful, the hardware itself (namely the C-class blades) is pretty impressive.
Amen to that. We deploy clusters of BL460c G1s that runs very smooth. I like how the design that let you remove hard drives without having to dismantle the servers. That is one of the reason why I choose the C-class over IBM's HS blade servers. the iLO2 is also far superior that it's IBM counterpart. However, if you're going to run lots of HP servers on your data center, having an extended maintenance contract is essential. When one of my HP BL20p crapped out, it takes 2 weeks for HP to get replacement part for the board.
Mine yes. And since the dev environment resides physically on the same network of our production (separated by firewall), our server admins also have local admins to those machines. Software provisions are provided by the server admins, and we strictly monitor installed application on those servers by using software asset management tools. Testing is done not on the dev environment, but on another batch of servers specifically used for UATs, Developers has no local admin right on UAT environment.
A non-physical gadget is a widget. So XP and OSX are widgets. Wait, I'm confused.
Well, google calls their widget a gadget
Happy birthday Linus!
I believe it's on the subject....