I have Cyanogen 7 on my Droid and it can handle a bluetooth keyboard just fine - all I had to do was turn it on and sync like any other device. The only issue I've had is it doesn't rotate the arrow keys with the screen (not a big deal.)
Try Vlingo. You can set it up to listen for a key phrase like "hey vlingo!" and it will start listening for commands. It's really handy when you're driving. Note that your phone is definitely not idling while its processing audio input and waiting for a key phrase.
Sony didn't plug any leak. The ps3 master keys don't go away with a ruling by some court. Softmods, homebrew, etc will still continue coming out like they were prior to the settlement. Some people might be scared but others probably still have an axe to grind.
Tabs STILL are not in their own processes like Chrome has done since day one
I'm not so sure this is a feature I want in Firefox. In Chrome if I have a certain number of tabs open Windows basically explodes and I have to kill Chrome. In FF4 I can have my unmanageable, huge number of tabs and it runs just fine.
Logitech's marble mouse is indeed pretty nice. Especially if you bind a side button to scroll, the momentum feels excellent when web browsing. You don't really get the kind of tactile feedback a trackball has with a regular mouse or touchpad when you're moving over large distances.
I'd rather sit in my comfy computer chair, chat with friends on Teamspeak as well as in-game chat, and alt tab out of the game to browse the web inbetween rounds. It's not so much the graphics, its the convenience of being able to do more than just sit there and play games.
That could be because of the heavy autoaim you get in any game that has a regular controller. With most of the Wii shooters I've played there isn't much in the way of autoaim. At least not as much as something like Halo or COD.
Icons are unnecessary - after you open a window all your icons will get covered up anyway. It's by far more convenient to use a quick launch mechanism like alt-f2 or store your icons on a panel that can't be covered as soon as you open a window.
Also note that KDE4 does have desktop icons. You just have to turn them on in the desktop settings.
It's more powerful than you think - have a look at this blog post. With a little QScript you can include any logic you want with no messy PyQt binding or C++ needing compilation.
What if you have the shiny new virus that modifies the checker after you just downloaded it? Also, when can I get a copy of the checker that runs on an old Windows XP machine or my Fedora boxes? I don't think its "reasonable" to expect me to run the latest Windows to get my banking done.
You've obviously never tried it. It shows the link you're hovering on in the URL bar now. As for blocking a slow domain, I don't think the average user is going to care about that. Install adblock and 90% of the laggy ad sites go away.
And as for targeting the geek market, I'm pretty sure the thousands of addons let you customize Firefox into your perfect idea of what a browser should be.
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Wicd is a great little wifi manager with no X library dependencies.
The nvidia drivers are useless without xrandr support. Fglrx may be a mess but at least it doesn't reimplement standards on the linux desktop.
All flavours of NVIDIA cards run the same base OpenGL implementation
Nope, sorry. There is a reason why there exists a "legacy" Nvidia driver.
I have Cyanogen 7 on my Droid and it can handle a bluetooth keyboard just fine - all I had to do was turn it on and sync like any other device. The only issue I've had is it doesn't rotate the arrow keys with the screen (not a big deal.)
They don't do things in the source code that would break when you compile under 64bit, like cast pointers to ints or something.
alt-f2 > gksu halt
Is probably easier
Really? I can't think of any operation you can't do with just a keyboard in Linux, regardless of WM.
It's likely you just weren't aware of a shortcut/command to do what you wanted.
In his snip "bribe" isn't a class name. It could be a "Transaction" named "bribe" or something
Try Vlingo. You can set it up to listen for a key phrase like "hey vlingo!" and it will start listening for commands. It's really handy when you're driving. Note that your phone is definitely not idling while its processing audio input and waiting for a key phrase.
Sony didn't plug any leak. The ps3 master keys don't go away with a ruling by some court. Softmods, homebrew, etc will still continue coming out like they were prior to the settlement. Some people might be scared but others probably still have an axe to grind.
Or you could always use the NDK and code in C/C++. Only minimal bits have to be in Java to interface with the rest of Android.
Tabs STILL are not in their own processes like Chrome has done since day one
I'm not so sure this is a feature I want in Firefox. In Chrome if I have a certain number of tabs open Windows basically explodes and I have to kill Chrome. In FF4 I can have my unmanageable, huge number of tabs and it runs just fine.
Logitech's marble mouse is indeed pretty nice. Especially if you bind a side button to scroll, the momentum feels excellent when web browsing. You don't really get the kind of tactile feedback a trackball has with a regular mouse or touchpad when you're moving over large distances.
Yep, and its absolutely crap. It only uses the PPC core so its horribly slow and the flash plugin basically locks the browser up.
His argument is about level playing field, nothing to do with options.
Patently false. There are plenty of hackers messing around on the PSN right now. At least on the PC we get real anti-cheat protection like VAC.
The ability to play any video codec, browse the web, play mods, and do other tasks impossible on a console?
I'd rather sit in my comfy computer chair, chat with friends on Teamspeak as well as in-game chat, and alt tab out of the game to browse the web inbetween rounds. It's not so much the graphics, its the convenience of being able to do more than just sit there and play games.
That could be because of the heavy autoaim you get in any game that has a regular controller. With most of the Wii shooters I've played there isn't much in the way of autoaim. At least not as much as something like Halo or COD.
For sure! There is a tiling option for kwin but its nowhere near as good as xmonad.
Icons are unnecessary - after you open a window all your icons will get covered up anyway. It's by far more convenient to use a quick launch mechanism like alt-f2 or store your icons on a panel that can't be covered as soon as you open a window.
Also note that KDE4 does have desktop icons. You just have to turn them on in the desktop settings.
It's more powerful than you think - have a look at this blog post. With a little QScript you can include any logic you want with no messy PyQt binding or C++ needing compilation.
Java and C#, like C++, are usually the least suited for GUI code - more expressive languages are much less aggravating for the task.
That's why they made Qt's QML
What if you have the shiny new virus that modifies the checker after you just downloaded it? Also, when can I get a copy of the checker that runs on an old Windows XP machine or my Fedora boxes? I don't think its "reasonable" to expect me to run the latest Windows to get my banking done.
Sorry, but no. The hardware behind h.264 decoding is usually general purpose. All it would take is a software driver to accelerate a new codec.
You've obviously never tried it. It shows the link you're hovering on in the URL bar now. As for blocking a slow domain, I don't think the average user is going to care about that. Install adblock and 90% of the laggy ad sites go away.
And as for targeting the geek market, I'm pretty sure the thousands of addons let you customize Firefox into your perfect idea of what a browser should be.