Exactly. Regardless of the reasons for pulling out of the protocol (which I don't suspect too much, as even the Canadian Conservatives are somewhat more enviro-friendly than the US Democrats) it was the best thing to do. Kyoto is a relic that needs to be replaced.
MeeGo and its descendants have been a huge clusterfuck, Maemo has a nice working desktop environment and is the closest to a regular desktop Linux distro underneath. The best thing to do as a next step would have been to bring it even closer to a standard Linux distro, maybe base it on Debian ARM and put Maemo's desktop and apps on top.
When Il bought my N900 I had a choice between WebOS, Android and Maemo (predecessor of MeeGo/Tizen). I chose Maemo because it was real GNU/Linux, not some Java/JS-based OS with the warm fuzziness of a Linux-based kernel like the other two. Also the hardware was fully open, no rooting or bootloader cracking required. Wake me up when I can get something new like that, with a hardware keyboard.
It said open source not "open" source. I think the implication involves open hardware. Not much use in being able to look at the code if the bootloader's locked.
Sadly this is correct. Both were semi-FOSS projects that were fully open-sourced and abandoned by mobile manfacturers. The future of mobile open source is pretty much dead at the moment. Don't let the situation repeat with desktop PCs.
Just FYI I've run OO.org 3.something on an N900 (inside a Debian ARM chroot). Runs pretty slow but it's usable.
Also the ReadyBoost-certified flash drives are much faster for use in place of a hard drive. The N900 comes with swap on the onboard flash by default, but I've moved the swap partition onto the MicroSD which is faster and replaceable, no problems so far.
No, to miss the point of a tablet you'd have to weld it to a table and remove the touchscreen. You're talking about curated computing, a separate thing unpopular with those who don't think a computer's CD tray is a cup holder.
If corporations can convince people to wear headgear that can measure brain activity, either EEG or fMRI (fMRI headgear is far-future tech, I know) and give access to the results, some bad shit's gonna happen. I was watching a feature yesterday that showed a marketing firm that uses EEG outputs to fine-tune advertisements to make them as irresistible as possible to specific individuals. At what point does it cross the line from advertisement to mind control? Or to look at it another way, this would allow advertisers to systematically ruin anything we take pleasure in by killing it with hollow advertisements, but I think de-facto mind control is more likely since advertising could be closely targeted.
The only significant barrier to mass adoption of such headsets within the next 50-100 years, given an incentive, is basically fashion - and if they could be embedded in the skin of the scalp like a tattoo so that they'd be invisible under hair, that wouldn't be an issue. Then it could be run from body heat or wirelessly beamed power, and linked to your phone via a wireless PAN for extra Facebook points or whatever.
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Wow I had no idea you were completely insane.
You sir, are a genius!
Exactly. Regardless of the reasons for pulling out of the protocol (which I don't suspect too much, as even the Canadian Conservatives are somewhat more enviro-friendly than the US Democrats) it was the best thing to do. Kyoto is a relic that needs to be replaced.
Oh also do you work for Waggener Edstrom?
I've been keeping track of the shills I run across in a journal entry:
http://slashdot.org/~GameboyRMH/journal/273120
Hahaha nice, an astroturfer commenting on an article about astroturfing.
Thanks, will add this info to my shill-monitoring journal entry.
Relax guys, this isn't the military piloting this drone, it's the DHS!
MeeGo and its descendants have been a huge clusterfuck, Maemo has a nice working desktop environment and is the closest to a regular desktop Linux distro underneath. The best thing to do as a next step would have been to bring it even closer to a standard Linux distro, maybe base it on Debian ARM and put Maemo's desktop and apps on top.
Very well, open firmware. Open soure hardware design would be nice but that's about as realistic as asking for open-source drivers.
Interesting, that could work in landscape slider form.
It'll be a dark cold day in hell when I switch to iOS.
When Il bought my N900 I had a choice between WebOS, Android and Maemo (predecessor of MeeGo/Tizen). I chose Maemo because it was real GNU/Linux, not some Java/JS-based OS with the warm fuzziness of a Linux-based kernel like the other two. Also the hardware was fully open, no rooting or bootloader cracking required. Wake me up when I can get something new like that, with a hardware keyboard.
It said open source not "open" source. I think the implication involves open hardware. Not much use in being able to look at the code if the bootloader's locked.
Sadly this is correct. Both were semi-FOSS projects that were fully open-sourced and abandoned by mobile manfacturers. The future of mobile open source is pretty much dead at the moment. Don't let the situation repeat with desktop PCs.
Use I2P or just go encrypted & peerblocked, your warez downloads are bogging down the connection of people with real problems.
WARNING! Only do this if you are an idiot! Don't unblock / log into Facebook or anything else. Odd that they presume you have an account too.
Dynamic IP FTW!
Just FYI I've run OO.org 3.something on an N900 (inside a Debian ARM chroot). Runs pretty slow but it's usable.
Also the ReadyBoost-certified flash drives are much faster for use in place of a hard drive. The N900 comes with swap on the onboard flash by default, but I've moved the swap partition onto the MicroSD which is faster and replaceable, no problems so far.
Damn right!
Or a very nice sportbike for that matter, what kind of bicycles are you buying!?
Yes, they are Professional Griefers...
No, to miss the point of a tablet you'd have to weld it to a table and remove the touchscreen. You're talking about curated computing, a separate thing unpopular with those who don't think a computer's CD tray is a cup holder.
French pronunciation is bloody difficult, no way around it, unless the teacher was an ass or something this won't help any more than lessons.
If corporations can convince people to wear headgear that can measure brain activity, either EEG or fMRI (fMRI headgear is far-future tech, I know) and give access to the results, some bad shit's gonna happen. I was watching a feature yesterday that showed a marketing firm that uses EEG outputs to fine-tune advertisements to make them as irresistible as possible to specific individuals. At what point does it cross the line from advertisement to mind control? Or to look at it another way, this would allow advertisers to systematically ruin anything we take pleasure in by killing it with hollow advertisements, but I think de-facto mind control is more likely since advertising could be closely targeted.
The only significant barrier to mass adoption of such headsets within the next 50-100 years, given an incentive, is basically fashion - and if they could be embedded in the skin of the scalp like a tattoo so that they'd be invisible under hair, that wouldn't be an issue. Then it could be run from body heat or wirelessly beamed power, and linked to your phone via a wireless PAN for extra Facebook points or whatever.