Does anybody actually know when we can expect a proper (mostly) stable release? And then again, much as I'm sure 2.4 is jolly handy for some, when will we see the fruit of more useful products for the average consumer such as the KDE/Gnome Office replacements?
It has seemed to me that there are many more trolls or otherwise pointless posts on/. than there used to be. Is this a result of/.'s soaring popularity? Is it the commercial ownership &c. of VA/Andover that piques these people? I do not condone censorship, but there must be some way to reduce these trolls - apart from reading at a higher threshold which is what I see myself doing.
Great that we may have FMV on our phones, but why? I use my phone mostly for chats with friends, and the last thing I want to see when sitting back in a chair with my eyes closed is their mug staring out of my little phone. That last sentence does actually assume I have transparent eyelids, but you get the message:-)
The present trend for mobiles is making them smaller and more unobtrusive which makes the idea of watching TV or videophone on a tiny handset rather annoying. The current generation of children will all grow up with eye problems anyway from staring at Microvitec Cubs &c. for so many years.
There has been talk in the press over the last few years of making roll-out screens - what's the latest?
Then again, my Nokia 6150 phone has a battery life of a few days, which is more than enough, but apparently if you have a phone with a vibrating alarm, it soaks up batteries.
Let's all look forward to a vibrating Psion with loads of power, which is small, and can be used for fax, email, and phone in one package!
I had a gap year last year, when I travelled the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Before leaving the UK, I bought a Psion 5 computer and its associated 14K4 travel modem. This did sterling service: I was only doing emails, and for this it was quite fast enough.
I used a Compuserve account - set it up in the UK for something like 10ukp a month, and then kill it on your return. They work worldwide, and it was jolly handy for me.
A Psion could upload digital camera pictures (via CompactFlash), but I would not like to do it myself! A simple laptop with 56K modem would be much faster; although you can get faster modems for the Psion, I have no experience of them. I just plugged the modem into any phone socket I could find, in cybercafes and hotels.
On the subject of GSM phones, I believe many companies offer a phone-hire service, probably in association with your UK mobile.
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I seem to recall a couple of years ago in New Scientist that IBM (or some such company) had successfully created a nano-engine. The point was that the scientists had decided to use steam power because it was more efficient at such small sizes.
They used a tiny spot of water, which was heated and then this produced work (perhaps pushing a piston?). Has any more information been published?
As for practical uses of this, I think that real-life applications of any nano-technology are many years off!
I'm a 'normal' enduser in a university environment, where NT is used almost exclusively, for the desktop machines. The machines are on all day all term, and are fairly reliable. Granted, with complex Word and Excel documents, and running Netscape, the machines crash occasionally.
However, most users, with simple essays, probably haven't had a crash in their entire time here.
I'm all for Linux (I run it at home), but for the average desktop user, NT presents a reliable cohesive environment.
The real market in the real world is that of the office desktop. Enterprise capability will not impress those who do the actual typing. At the end of the day, being able to handle xxxx ftp requests per second don't actually change your words per minute, and that's what Office and therefore Windows is about.
They certainly do: I have used Acorn computers (running on ARM chips) ever since they came out in 1987... very fast for their time.
I bought a Psion Series5 last year, which is very good for certain things, such as essays, diaries and the like. It's not underpowered, and it uses (IIRRC) an ARM7500 at 30MHz. The power usage I get from it is 45mA/h when idling, going up to around 110mAh/h for maximum processing. When the backlight is on, the maximum power throughput is around 200mAh.
Looking at the Itsy numbers, they are a _lot_ higher. How is this research device powered? Even the most highly powered AAs give out 1000-2000mAh. I get a more realistic 1000mAh out of each pair of NiMHs.
Great science, but that sort of processing power is unfeasible, in my view, and impractical for such a small device.
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Just to save ten seconds, here is the list of mirrors, from the site: http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
Does anybody actually know when we can expect a proper (mostly) stable release? And then again, much as I'm sure 2.4 is jolly handy for some, when will we see the fruit of more useful products for the average consumer such as the KDE/Gnome Office replacements?
It has seemed to me that there are many more trolls or otherwise pointless posts on /. than there used to be. Is this a result of /.'s soaring popularity? Is it the commercial ownership &c. of VA/Andover that piques these people?
I do not condone censorship, but there must be some way to reduce these trolls - apart from reading at a higher threshold which is what I see myself doing.
As it says - isn't this somewhat akin to a text/X console? I would expect this wouldn't be too hard to rig up under Linux...
Great that we may have FMV on our phones, but why? I use my phone mostly for chats with friends, and the last thing I want to see when sitting back in a chair with my eyes closed is their mug staring out of my little phone. That last sentence does actually assume I have transparent eyelids, but you get the message :-)
The present trend for mobiles is making them smaller and more unobtrusive which makes the idea of watching TV or videophone on a tiny handset rather annoying. The current generation of children will all grow up with eye problems anyway from staring at Microvitec Cubs &c. for so many years.
There has been talk in the press over the last few years of making roll-out screens - what's the latest?
Then again, my Nokia 6150 phone has a battery life of a few days, which is more than enough, but apparently if you have a phone with a vibrating alarm, it soaks up batteries.
Let's all look forward to a vibrating Psion with loads of power, which is small, and can be used for fax, email, and phone in one package!
I had a gap year last year, when I travelled the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Before leaving the UK, I bought a Psion 5 computer and its associated 14K4 travel modem. This did sterling service: I was only doing emails, and for this it was quite fast enough.
I used a Compuserve account - set it up in the UK for something like 10ukp a month, and then kill it on your return. They work worldwide, and it was jolly handy for me.
A Psion could upload digital camera pictures (via CompactFlash), but I would not like to do it myself! A simple laptop with 56K modem would be much faster; although you can get faster modems for the Psion, I have no experience of them. I just plugged the modem into any phone socket I could find, in cybercafes and hotels.
On the subject of GSM phones, I believe many companies offer a phone-hire service, probably in association with your UK mobile.
foxtrot
I seem to recall a couple of years ago in New Scientist that IBM (or some such company) had successfully created a nano-engine. The point was that the scientists had decided to use steam power because it was more efficient at such small sizes.
They used a tiny spot of water, which was heated and then this produced work (perhaps pushing a piston?). Has any more information been published?
As for practical uses of this, I think that real-life applications of any nano-technology are many years off!
foxtrot
I'm a 'normal' enduser in a university environment, where NT is used almost exclusively, for the desktop machines. The machines are on all day all term, and are fairly reliable. Granted, with complex Word and Excel documents, and running Netscape, the machines crash occasionally.
However, most users, with simple essays, probably haven't had a crash in their entire time here.
I'm all for Linux (I run it at home), but for the average desktop user, NT presents a reliable cohesive environment.
The real market in the real world is that of the office desktop. Enterprise capability will not impress those who do the actual typing. At the end of the day, being able to handle xxxx ftp requests per second don't actually change your words per minute, and that's what Office and therefore Windows is about.
They certainly do: I have used Acorn computers (running on ARM chips) ever since they came out in 1987... very fast for their time.
I bought a Psion Series5 last year, which is very good for certain things, such as essays, diaries and the like. It's not underpowered, and it uses (IIRRC) an ARM7500 at 30MHz. The power usage I get from it is 45mA/h when idling, going up to around 110mAh/h for maximum processing. When the backlight is on, the maximum power throughput is around 200mAh.
Looking at the Itsy numbers, they are a _lot_ higher. How is this research device powered? Even the most highly powered AAs give out 1000-2000mAh. I get a more realistic 1000mAh out of each pair of NiMHs.
Great science, but that sort of processing power is unfeasible, in my view, and impractical for such a small device.