Not really. I was on verge of swtiching to chrome because of firefox getting stuck while typing in address bar. Disabling "Windows Foundation Presention" magically fixed the problem.
>>>I am speechless at the business acumen behind killing your number one free advertising site, the one that had no negative affect whatsoever on your sales
I never had interest in movies made in usa(I am not from english speaking countries) until I watched few pirated movies using bittorent. Now I watch new releases in theater and pay for it.
I share my home laptop with my father(70+) when I am at office. Since my father is english illitrate(I don't belong to English speaking country), I had tough time configuring my laptop for my father.
Couple of changes which I did for my father:
1. Created a new user account with limited access with no password. 2. Configured facebrowser with real pics. Pics of dogs and cats don't work. 3. Taught my father to use touchpad. I tried to teach mouse first but he had tough time. For old people, it is difficult to click button on mouse but do not move it. 4. Disabled "tap to click" for touchpad. My father use to always tap while trying to move the pointer. 5. Changed power button setting to switch off the PC. Power button should be like T.V power button which can turn ON/OFF the computer. 6. Configured a function key to close active window. Moving mouse pointer to small part of screen area just to close the window, is tough task. 7. Created a batch file to check for Internet connectivity, connect to Internet if not connected and launch newspaper. 8.Created a custom icon with bold text "NEWS PAPER" for this batch file and placed on desktop. I also deleted other icons from desktop to avoid confusion. 9. Similar batch file and icon for webemail, media player. 10.Enabled vista's slide show desktop gadget and configured to show random pics from family photo collection. I taught him, how to make a photo big which is appearing in slide show.
My point is that most of the free softwares doesn't need more features but more QA.
One year back, once i wanted to use GIMP and had not Internet. I recollected that I have one ubuntu live CD and it should have GIMP for windows. I was correct, it had GIMP but no GTK. So i couldn't install. Why Ubuntu couldn't do a simple QA if someone can install GIMP from live CD or not. Why they assumed that people will be having GTK installed. I don't think they target audience with GTK installed with windows version of Linux programs.
Why are people deviating from Unix philosophy "Do less but do it well"?
PS: I am a big Linux fan and run ubuntu 7.10 on my new dell vastro 1500 laptop.
Do these gimp guys ever see what they are they making?
Look at the screenshots http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/ page. They are using some junk javascript which doesn't even resize even properly. How can they do it? They claim to have best image editor on Linux but they don't know how to present those images? I am really frustrated.
GIMP lacks Quality assurance not only in application but website too.
Not as a hobbyist but as a professional developer i have little experiences of both.
Whenever i need to do something on windows mobile/wince i never commit on a deadline because you don't know where will you get stuck with so many libs (without source code) around. Microsoft is not going to support you until you really mean something to them and windows mobile documents sucks.
Some point of time, I had to demo VoIP on wince. I plan to use wince messenger but it was returning 421(IIRC). I was using M$ SIP stack so code was not available to me. There was no way to find out the root cause until I get M$ support. Luckily i thought little differently and figured out that there could be some problem in Wi-Fi driver(it was developed by me again). NDIS API for maximum data rate was not correct. I don't understand how can someone think of development on M$ platform as a HOBBY with such a bad documentation and no support.
Later,i had to port Linux kernel on a alien platform with some minimal applications (e.g ftp, ssh ) within a month. I am basically a network engineer with no embedded experience at all but have some user level Linux experience. With the help of community(IRC) i successfuly completed the task within the specified time. I was amazed the way linux kernel is written. You dont have to do anything to port on a new device. Error handling is great. Error reporting is excellent and tools really rocks. No OS give support over IM as Linux has. I feel, Linux is best for developing applications for mobile devices(at least for command line applications, haven't tried GUI ever). You don't have fear to get locked in with issues in some alien binary.
Windows mobile looks good at beginning but once you go inside it, its all muddy and you find yourself helpless. Still trying to figure out what is equivalent of kernel magic number in windows mobile:(.
PS: Sorry for broken English. I am not a native speaker.
nice to see some combo(IO+Memory) cards going out of lab. Don't assume that these cards will fit into any kind of camera. camera should support SD host spec 2.0 and driver should support combo cards. It will take time to see SD combo cards capable cameras.
Being an Indian and broadband user from last few yrs, i could say that its not a very great news for most of the middle class Indians.
BSNL/MTNL already provide 2 Mbps broadband for mere Rs250($6) per month.
The fine point is that BSNL provides broadband only if you have a telephone connection which will not be free. BSNL is facing tough competition from private carriers and most probably its an attempt of survival.
PS: sorry for broken english but i never enjoyed writing.
what if MS wraps a x11 client in HTTP as a IE7 update and start delivering bunch of application which is pain to replicate in browser. Users will get better application in short time and MS can take a lead.
I assume MS will make sure that x11 client works with MS only.
you forgot to mention
1. visit crap.com
2. click on few links to get the right application
3. save it to desktop on risk of being a adware
4. then click on next,next or drag it application folder.
I am from India and I have a very old Celeron computer with 64MB RAM. I used Linux on this system till 2002 when I was in univ but not able to use any more when I am out of univ. Here are the reasons 1. No internet provider officially support Linux boxes. When I got Airtel internet connection(ADSL) at home, I asked the installation guy to install dialer client for Linux. His reply was "just run the exe and it will work". I couldn't say more. Another Internet provider Sify use to provide the dialer for Linux, but it's not supported any more. 2. For India documents = something in ms doc format. Whenever I send my resume in pdf format, I get reply to send in doc format. Job sites and job consultant process resume in doc format only. OpenOffice.org is just good for viewing ms doc, but not good for editing. 3. No Linux based VPN client: the organization where I work doesn't have any Linux based VPN client. 4. No Linux driver available for my old webcam(Mercury Pocketcam) 5. Red Hat 8.0 and other new distributions require at 128MB of RAM. Even though I want to upgrade to at least 128MB of RAM, I don't find SD RAM in market any more or it's very expensive. I cant use DDR as my mother board doesn't support it. If I upgrade the mother board, I need to get a new processor and RAM so it's like buying a new PC.
The pirated Win98 which I am running serves my purpose. I need just Opera (Firefox has discontinued support on Win98), putty (for office work over SSH) and yahoo messenger (IM client).
whatever you said is true if Indians make products for US only. But unfortunately now Indians works on product for Asian market too. Americans can't understand the business culture in Asia as your logic. Asian market will be the driving factor for outsourcing in India very soon.
According to google 0^0 = 1
According to GNU bc program : 0^0 =1
According to Windows calc: 0^0 = 1
Looks like computer world has already assumed 0^0 =1
This is not dual screen in traditional sense. The second dispaly is powered by totally different processor (ARM- low power). You can consider this as two different devices communicating with each other, not only dual screen. Think of possibilities when the second display is detachable. You dont need blackberry/MP3 players/WiFi phones when you have your laptop around.
Disclosure: PortalPlayer employee here.
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Not really. I was on verge of swtiching to chrome because of firefox getting stuck while typing in address bar. Disabling "Windows Foundation Presention" magically fixed the problem.
what is the difference between UN and US? For non americans it is same.
Google cache
My HTC diamond already does that.
>>>I am speechless at the business acumen behind killing your number one free advertising site, the one that had no negative affect whatsoever on your sales
I never had interest in movies made in usa(I am not from english speaking countries) until I watched few pirated movies using bittorent. Now I watch new releases in theater and pay for it.
I share my home laptop with my father(70+) when I am at office. Since my father is english illitrate(I don't belong to English speaking country), I had tough time configuring my laptop for my father.
Couple of changes which I did for my father:
1. Created a new user account with limited access with no password.
2. Configured facebrowser with real pics. Pics of dogs and cats don't work.
3. Taught my father to use touchpad. I tried to teach mouse first but he had tough time. For old people, it is difficult to click button on mouse but do not move it.
4. Disabled "tap to click" for touchpad. My father use to always tap while trying to move the pointer.
5. Changed power button setting to switch off the PC. Power button should be like T.V power button which can turn ON/OFF the computer.
6. Configured a function key to close active window. Moving mouse pointer to small part of screen area just to close the window, is tough task.
7. Created a batch file to check for Internet connectivity, connect to Internet if not connected and launch newspaper.
8.Created a custom icon with bold text "NEWS PAPER" for this batch file and placed on desktop. I also deleted other icons from desktop to avoid confusion.
9. Similar batch file and icon for webemail, media player.
10.Enabled vista's slide show desktop gadget and configured to show random pics from family photo collection. I taught him, how to make a photo big which is appearing in slide show.
>>why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
Should be available soon
http://www.nvidia.com/page/handheld.html
you can connect your TV through HDMI,monitor through DVI, keyboard and mouse through USB or bluetooth.
well.. there is just a small change in their policy
ln US:
personIsTerrorist=TRUE
if(foundInnocent()) personIsTerrorist= FALSE
In other contries:
personIsTerrist=FALSE
if(foundGuilty()) personIsTerrorist= TRUE
Free software doesn't mean "inferior quality".
My point is that most of the free softwares doesn't need more features but more QA.
One year back, once i wanted to use GIMP and had not Internet. I recollected that I have one ubuntu live CD and it should have GIMP for windows. I was correct, it had GIMP but no GTK. So i couldn't install. Why Ubuntu couldn't do a simple QA if someone can install GIMP from live CD or not. Why they assumed that people will be having GTK installed. I don't think they target audience with GTK installed with windows version of Linux programs.
Why are people deviating from Unix philosophy "Do less but do it well"?
PS: I am a big Linux fan and run ubuntu 7.10 on my new dell vastro 1500 laptop.
Do these gimp guys ever see what they are they making?
Look at the screenshots http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/ page. They are using some junk javascript which doesn't even resize even properly. How can they do it? They claim to have best image editor on Linux but they don't know how to present those images? I am really frustrated.
GIMP lacks Quality assurance not only in application but website too.
Not as a hobbyist but as a professional developer i have little experiences of both.
:(.
Whenever i need to do something on windows mobile/wince i never commit on a deadline because you don't know where will you get stuck with so many libs (without source code) around. Microsoft is not going to support you until you really mean something to them and windows mobile documents sucks.
Some point of time, I had to demo VoIP on wince. I plan to use wince messenger but it was returning 421(IIRC). I was using M$ SIP stack so code was not available to me. There was no way to find out the root cause until I get M$ support. Luckily i thought little differently and figured out that there could be some problem in Wi-Fi driver(it was developed by me again). NDIS API for maximum data rate was not correct. I don't understand how can someone think of development on M$ platform as a HOBBY with such a bad documentation and no support.
Later,i had to port Linux kernel on a alien platform with some minimal applications (e.g ftp, ssh ) within a month. I am basically a network engineer with no embedded experience at all but have some user level Linux experience. With the help of community(IRC) i successfuly completed the task within the specified time. I was amazed the way linux kernel is written. You dont have to do anything to port on a new device. Error handling is great. Error reporting is excellent and tools really rocks. No OS give support over IM as Linux has. I feel, Linux is best for developing applications for mobile devices(at least for command line applications, haven't tried GUI ever). You don't have fear to get locked in with issues in some alien binary.
Windows mobile looks good at beginning but once you go inside it, its all muddy and you find yourself helpless. Still trying to figure out what is equivalent of kernel magic number in windows mobile
PS: Sorry for broken English. I am not a native speaker.
CVS http://showmypcssh.cvs.sourceforge.net/showmypcssh / is empty.
nice to see some combo(IO+Memory) cards going out of lab. Don't assume that these cards will fit into any kind of camera. camera should support SD host spec 2.0 and driver should support combo cards. It will take time to see SD combo cards capable cameras.
Being an Indian and broadband user from last few yrs, i could say that its not a very great news for most of the middle class Indians.
BSNL/MTNL already provide 2 Mbps broadband for mere Rs250($6) per month.
The fine point is that BSNL provides broadband only if you have a telephone connection which will not be free. BSNL is facing tough competition from private carriers and most probably its an attempt of survival.
PS: sorry for broken english but i never enjoyed writing.
>>add an antenna to the target's display.
Its already there in Wi-Fi enabled laptops.
what if MS wraps a x11 client in HTTP as a IE7 update and start delivering bunch of application which is pain to replicate in browser. Users will get better application in short time and MS can take a lead.
I assume MS will make sure that x11 client works with MS only.
Microsoft had already sold 35,000 open-source coupons out of the 70,000
what is open-source coupon?
you forgot to mention 1. visit crap.com 2. click on few links to get the right application 3. save it to desktop on risk of being a adware 4. then click on next ,next or drag it application folder.
I am from India and I have a very old Celeron computer with 64MB RAM. I used Linux on this system till 2002 when I was in univ but not able to use any more when I am out of univ.
Here are the reasons
1. No internet provider officially support Linux boxes. When I got Airtel internet connection(ADSL) at home, I asked the installation guy to install dialer client for Linux. His reply was "just run the exe and it will work". I couldn't say more. Another Internet provider Sify use to provide the dialer for Linux, but it's not supported any more.
2. For India documents = something in ms doc format. Whenever I send my resume in pdf format, I get reply to send in doc format. Job sites and job consultant process resume in doc format only. OpenOffice.org is just good for viewing ms doc, but not good for editing.
3. No Linux based VPN client: the organization where I work doesn't have any Linux based VPN client.
4. No Linux driver available for my old webcam(Mercury Pocketcam)
5. Red Hat 8.0 and other new distributions require at 128MB of RAM. Even though I want to upgrade to at least 128MB of RAM, I don't find SD RAM in market any more or it's very expensive. I cant use DDR as my mother board doesn't support it. If I upgrade the mother board, I need to get a new processor and RAM so it's like buying a new PC.
The pirated Win98 which I am running serves my purpose. I need just Opera (Firefox has discontinued support on Win98), putty (for office work over SSH) and yahoo messenger (IM client).
whatever you said is true if Indians make products for US only. But unfortunately now Indians works on product for Asian market too. Americans can't understand the business culture in Asia as your logic. Asian market will be the driving factor for outsourcing in India very soon.
There will be no way for the OS to know that there's new hardware unless it goes through the hardware detection
instead of processor asking for hardware present on the system, cant we have a model where hardware starts negotiation with processor?
According to google 0^0 = 1
According to GNU bc program : 0^0 =1
According to Windows calc: 0^0 = 1
Looks like computer world has already assumed 0^0 =1
They're being pretty damn generous even letting you see the source code.
its not Their code.
I have entrust open in other window and Java in enable too. may be u just dont keep ur system up to date.
This is not dual screen in traditional sense. The second dispaly is powered by totally different processor (ARM- low power). You can consider this as two different devices communicating with each other, not only dual screen. Think of possibilities when the second display is detachable. You dont need blackberry/MP3 players/WiFi phones when you have your laptop around. Disclosure: PortalPlayer employee here.