This problem has been solved time and time again using web browsers. Even the big GUI app companies are starting to produce extremely capable versions of non-intensive tools in the browser.
Really for database/form-based apps, I can see absolutely no compelling reason to use Glade or GTK (or C++ or Mono) for this.
Much as I respect Mozilla as an organisation, even a quad core phone is worse at interpreting web-stack apps than byte-compiled or actual compiled code. I don't understand how lower processing power and higher processing requirements are going to solve anybody's problems.
About 5 years ago I stopped investing in American companies. Why? Because I didn't want to support even indirectly a regime that, without apology, oppressed many South American countries, and also supported the despotic regime of Iran, back when it suited them. I hold them largely responsible for sacrificing millions of my long-separated brothers (yes, I'm ethnic Iraqi Arab) through starvation and torture simply to keep a "buffer state" in between them and the insane near-nuclear powers of Iran (ha ha, what irony).
True. However the article goes on to use the cover as a springboard for ideas on how bad we are at predicting technology advances. Given that the point of the picture is to show watches becoming computers, and the current trend for "smart" watches, I'd say that shows the complete opposite. We may be bad at predicting the specific form-factors of technology, but the prevailing idea of miniaturization seems spot on.
Looking at the image it's totally clear to me that it's just visual metaphor. Clearly the artist was not suggesting that this was a workable idea, simply that watches would soon be like computers. This rather makes the rest of your analysis seems fragile.
Nonsense. Google Now voice activation only works on a few models (and can be switched off), plus the launcher with Now integrated is solely available for the nexus 5. Please stop the FUD.
So, as far as I can tell from the comments, most of you think "bitch" is a pretty acceptable throwaway term for women, and that you're all bile-filled because this lady chose to wear a DEACTIVATED Glass while driving.
I would have thought that, as technology (and science fiction) fans, Google Glass, no matter whether it works out as being useful or not, would be something to celebrate - a real stab at the technology of all the futurism we've read about for the last hundred years or so.
This forum has gone from celebrating the idea of the future and whatever that entails, to overt sexism and denigration of anyone trying anything new.
Thank the stars that most of you are support workers and net freaks, and not actually in any kind of forward-thinking technology development. At least that's what I assume from your changing-room diatribes.
All of you guys arguing about a system that makes healthcare available to those who don't have it - assume the vulnerable as it seems they are most likely to benefit - sounds like base savagery. I can't begin to imagine that you think the free market is a better fit for such a basic human requirement.
Here in the UK thousands upon thousands of doctors do exactly that so they can be part of a society-wide force for good called the NHS. The NHS is a mandatory insurance policy which every UK citizen pays for, but the doctors could certainly get paid more for going private.
It is base cynicism that appears to be the worst disease affecting US society.
I have to agree with this. I tried (and tried and tried) to move my company's ailing VB-based CRM system to a OOTB solution, but none of the platforms I tried (Sugar, VTiger, and a few others) really did what we needed. Either too much or too little complexity and customisation with each.
In the end I gave up and spent a week designing, and then another two weeks implementing, the first version of a custom-built solution using Zend Framework (yes sorry, feel free to snarl at my framework/language choice, but it's great for quick prototyping and RAD). Obviously I've had endless feature/bug fix requests ever since, but after initially trawling the SugarCRM code it became clear that any amount of customisation on their awfully confused and verbose code would be so troublesome, and that our needs as an small business were so specific, that getting any of the other solutions into shape was going to be an entirely joyless exercise.
If they'll give you a few weeks of time to do it yourself, and you follow good coding practice, you'll end up with something far more lightweight and fit for purpose.
Also in response to your point about automated speed limits - Spain actually has this on most high-speed train tracks - as do most countries with high-speed trains. very unfortunately just not on this particular one.
This was, as far as I'm aware, to be a mag-lev train in a near-vacuum tunnel. Hitting the sides is basically impossible, even during a power failure, and the train can presumably be brought to a hault by simply switching off power in one section of track, much like most metro trains.
Indeed, I've always thought that agreeing to allow the Activesync portion of the Android exchange client to remotely wipe all my data was a bit harsh. That said, I'm in charge of the Exchange server so there ain't gonna be any wiping of my phone. Obviously the boss has to stay nice though.
Yeah, I was always utterly confused as to why they stuck to Blackberry for this, rather than using Skype on iPhone/Android. I think that most people viewed Skype as "calling" application, even though the text chat was totally fine. It's already cross-platform and free. Must be the Microsoft curse at work.
I wonder if they'll manage to carve out a place for themselves based on BES inertia. However, having administered BES, I sincerely hope they do the dodo.
I was saying that Russia remains a communist country - and it still is , in more ways than one - despite being a so-called "democracy"
BTW, "Federal Republic" doesn't really mean anything other than it has no "king"
Are you trolling? How can a democracy, even one where the incumbent party uses dirty tricks to stay in power, ever be communist? I don't think you know what the word means, apart from some sort of "like the evil old USSR" attribution. Please go and read something about politics before spouting off on subjects you are clearly extremely ignorant of.
As for democratic politicians using dirty tricks, if I can assume you are a US citizen for a moment, you may want to look back at Fox calling votes for Bush Jr when in fact no such thing had occurred. Corruption and dirty tricks happen wherever there is power, not just under communism and certainly not just in Russia.
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Obviously running Linux it's already fully unlocked for root. Android-wise, there's already a TWRP & LineageOS build if you want to it that way.
It's already been presented at CES, and is made by the same team as Gemini who certainly produced the goods, if not a little later than expected.
I haven't actually funded the Cosmo, but I wouldn't be worried if I had.
It's supposed to ship in June this year, but the Gemini was quite late so who knows.
Indiegogo has terrible page design which makes this stuff quite unclear!
The Gemini PDA has been around for about a year - I was one of the backers. The more interesting one is this:
https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
This will actually fully replace your phone with a Palm-style computer, unlike the Gemini, which I've since sold.
"Amazon Echo still a covert listening device"
To answer the question though, why not just use Mono? You'd have basically cross-platform code that way :-)
This problem has been solved time and time again using web browsers. Even the big GUI app companies are starting to produce extremely capable versions of non-intensive tools in the browser.
Really for database/form-based apps, I can see absolutely no compelling reason to use Glade or GTK (or C++ or Mono) for this.
Much as I respect Mozilla as an organisation, even a quad core phone is worse at interpreting web-stack apps than byte-compiled or actual compiled code. I don't understand how lower processing power and higher processing requirements are going to solve anybody's problems.
About 5 years ago I stopped investing in American companies. Why? Because I didn't want to support even indirectly a regime that, without apology, oppressed many South American countries, and also supported the despotic regime of Iran, back when it suited them. I hold them largely responsible for sacrificing millions of my long-separated brothers (yes, I'm ethnic Iraqi Arab) through starvation and torture simply to keep a "buffer state" in between them and the insane near-nuclear powers of Iran (ha ha, what irony).
True. However the article goes on to use the cover as a springboard for ideas on how bad we are at predicting technology advances. Given that the point of the picture is to show watches becoming computers, and the current trend for "smart" watches, I'd say that shows the complete opposite. We may be bad at predicting the specific form-factors of technology, but the prevailing idea of miniaturization seems spot on.
Looking at the image it's totally clear to me that it's just visual metaphor. Clearly the artist was not suggesting that this was a workable idea, simply that watches would soon be like computers. This rather makes the rest of your analysis seems fragile.
You've got to hand it to them. If any team/person/mutant managed to create such a program then IT MUST BE USED.
Nonsense. Google Now voice activation only works on a few models (and can be switched off), plus the launcher with Now integrated is solely available for the nexus 5. Please stop the FUD.
So, as far as I can tell from the comments, most of you think "bitch" is a pretty acceptable throwaway term for women, and that you're all bile-filled because this lady chose to wear a DEACTIVATED Glass while driving.
I would have thought that, as technology (and science fiction) fans, Google Glass, no matter whether it works out as being useful or not, would be something to celebrate - a real stab at the technology of all the futurism we've read about for the last hundred years or so.
This forum has gone from celebrating the idea of the future and whatever that entails, to overt sexism and denigration of anyone trying anything new.
Thank the stars that most of you are support workers and net freaks, and not actually in any kind of forward-thinking technology development. At least that's what I assume from your changing-room diatribes.
All of you guys arguing about a system that makes healthcare available to those who don't have it - assume the vulnerable as it seems they are most likely to benefit - sounds like base savagery. I can't begin to imagine that you think the free market is a better fit for such a basic human requirement.
Here in the UK thousands upon thousands of doctors do exactly that so they can be part of a society-wide force for good called the NHS. The NHS is a mandatory insurance policy which every UK citizen pays for, but the doctors could certainly get paid more for going private.
It is base cynicism that appears to be the worst disease affecting US society.
I have to agree with this. I tried (and tried and tried) to move my company's ailing VB-based CRM system to a OOTB solution, but none of the platforms I tried (Sugar, VTiger, and a few others) really did what we needed. Either too much or too little complexity and customisation with each.
In the end I gave up and spent a week designing, and then another two weeks implementing, the first version of a custom-built solution using Zend Framework (yes sorry, feel free to snarl at my framework/language choice, but it's great for quick prototyping and RAD). Obviously I've had endless feature/bug fix requests ever since, but after initially trawling the SugarCRM code it became clear that any amount of customisation on their awfully confused and verbose code would be so troublesome, and that our needs as an small business were so specific, that getting any of the other solutions into shape was going to be an entirely joyless exercise.
If they'll give you a few weeks of time to do it yourself, and you follow good coding practice, you'll end up with something far more lightweight and fit for purpose.
Degenerate by whose reckoning? Was this study funded by christian science or something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_protection_system
Also in response to your point about automated speed limits - Spain actually has this on most high-speed train tracks - as do most countries with high-speed trains. very unfortunately just not on this particular one.
This was, as far as I'm aware, to be a mag-lev train in a near-vacuum tunnel. Hitting the sides is basically impossible, even during a power failure, and the train can presumably be brought to a hault by simply switching off power in one section of track, much like most metro trains.
Indeed, I've always thought that agreeing to allow the Activesync portion of the Android exchange client to remotely wipe all my data was a bit harsh. That said, I'm in charge of the Exchange server so there ain't gonna be any wiping of my phone. Obviously the boss has to stay nice though.
Yeah, I was always utterly confused as to why they stuck to Blackberry for this, rather than using Skype on iPhone/Android. I think that most people viewed Skype as "calling" application, even though the text chat was totally fine. It's already cross-platform and free. Must be the Microsoft curse at work.
This is exactly the same as Good ( http://www1.good.com/applications/good-for-enterprise ) and Samsung Knox is something similar.
I wonder if they'll manage to carve out a place for themselves based on BES inertia. However, having administered BES, I sincerely hope they do the dodo.
Umm ...
I didn't say anything about democracy, did I?
I was saying that Russia remains a communist country - and it still is , in more ways than one - despite being a so-called "democracy"
BTW, "Federal Republic" doesn't really mean anything other than it has no "king"
Are you trolling? How can a democracy, even one where the incumbent party uses dirty tricks to stay in power, ever be communist? I don't think you know what the word means, apart from some sort of "like the evil old USSR" attribution. Please go and read something about politics before spouting off on subjects you are clearly extremely ignorant of.
As for democratic politicians using dirty tricks, if I can assume you are a US citizen for a moment, you may want to look back at Fox calling votes for Bush Jr when in fact no such thing had occurred. Corruption and dirty tricks happen wherever there is power, not just under communism and certainly not just in Russia.