Good point. But somehow they have not caught on.. Yet.. think about it.. the computing and the technologies packed into mobile communications have been growing at a phenomenal rate. But proper waterproofing is still a "high premium" and still questionable if it truly works! We definitely have been prioritizing the wrong stuff. That is the point I want to stress.
People who use boats often for work or pleasure often find they have dropped their phone in water. They drop it into shallows, which is usually the case as they drop phones accidentally when climbing / alighting the boats. In such scenarios, it is easy to retrieve the phone, but it would just be a brick by the time it is retrieved. The possibility of communication is vital in such circumstances where they might be traveling over water, possibly alone.What is the point of spending thousands of dollars on communication technology if the communication device is lost when it is needed the most? Precious, unreproducible data such as personal photos of events could be lost too. All this despite years of evolution of the technology?
The last I checked most phones would fail and lose water-proofing if they start ringing underwater. Or their touch sensor won't work, or some sort of handicap like that.
This must go the way of dinosaurs. More accurately, the bicycle licenae and the television reception license. Don't know about the US, but in India, you needed a license to ride a bicycle on public road till 1947 and TV broadcast reception licence 1984.
In 2002, the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo announced it had created a silent mobile phone using electromyography and imaging of lip movement. "The spur to developing such a phone,"...
It is not Javascript . It is dependance on external sources of "Code".. the "Javascript" or more accurately "Web technologies" are currently in flux. And hence the external sources of "Code" have more chance of bugs.
Now that is a debug framework I have been waiting for years. Waiting for you to publish it on npm and sisters.
Ok, seriously the problem is that coming up with Javascript frameworks is too easy. To the point that, when we start researching on several frameworks, and find that for the particular project at hand, we need 4 different features from 4 different frameworks, and we cant use any because of clashes, or.... we realize that it is way too easy to write our own framework than research the thousands of them. Then, once we have written it, we end up publishing it because it will look good on resume or company profile, not realizing or caring that we are actually contributing to the problem of ever-growing heap of redundant frameworks. Just like fast food vendors know it is now good for your health, but add new tasty unhealthy items because.. hey it sells! Occasionally, the relatively good ones do grow into the "flavor of the month".
Now there is a whole economy on these heaps - newsletters, dedicated websites for reviews, tutorial websites, tutorials on YouTube, marketplaces, site maintenance, consultation, etc.
I myself am still in love with Firefox. I do miss some of the extensions that I use - like TabGroups. It was like a natural extension of my mind. But I can live through this transition.
For people who still want the older behaviour though, you can try PaleMoon. YMMV.
You can always download newest Firefox manually and run it in a separate folder. It can even use your existing profile - though you may have to re-enable the older extensions when you switch back.
This has been predicted by the Indian stand up comedian Johny Lever long back! I heard it in one of his stand ups in 2006. His prediction might have preceded it much further back.
= Reusable / Modular but practical computing platforms =
For God's sake make a laptop where, when the processors, storage, RAM cannot be upgraded anymore to keep up with age the rest of the machine ( the Display, the speakers, keyboard, touchpad etc.) can still be used over standard interfaces like HDMI, 3.5 mm Jack,, USB, PCI express etc. , so that it can be re-used instead of reaching the landfill. E-waste recycling is not yet at it's best in most of the world. And being able to quickly re-use the device in hand in ways unplanned for is what makes a tech-geek the happiest, in addition to mother nature - for keeping her and her children healthy.
Make it semi-modular, with the goals to be both re-usable and hot-swappable. Do not try to be another project ARA.
One way of achieving the above in a way the geeks would love:
A seperate Compute Module in the spirit of Rpi-compute-module : the size of a small tablet-pc consisting of:
* RAM, CPU
* and a small battery(enough to allow hotswapping between terminal),
* wifi, Bluetooth
* an SSD and
*an "expansion port".
This would come in several flavours - from netbook like power with max display res of full HD good for simple computing on-the go, to powerfull ones with Dual 4k displays enough for extreme gaming. These can dock into "Terminal"s and hot-swap between them.
The "Terminal" could be any of your "Terminal" products ( Each with it's own big battery/power supply):
* A 10 inch laptop like dock, 15 inch, 20 Inch. WIth / Without touch-screen.
* Slim ones with membrane keyboards, small battery
* Fat ones with mechanical keyboards.
* Convertible ones - by detaching or twisting
* A "PC" Like Dock: which simply converts the expansion port into
* 1 or 2 HDMIs
* 4 USB ports,
* ethernet
* audio ports (from HDMI)
* and probably a Hot swappable SATA Port.
* A few different sizes of tablet like Interfaces.
Or any exotic but practical types of "Terminals"
* An "All in one desktop" like terminal with display and sound, with laser projection keyboard built under the display. And a Wacom like digitizer.
.... scandal that led parliament to impeach South Korean President Park Geun-hye. From the report: .....
Which parliment? Is Slashdot specific to USA or a global website? Why do we have so many reports that simply mention "parliment" or "the Navy" , etc. without mentioning the nation?
Slashdot Mirror
Also, if they can make a datacenter waterproof, why not a humble mobile phone?
Using cases would get annoying. Really.
Good point. But somehow they have not caught on.. Yet .. think about it .. the computing and the technologies packed into mobile communications have been growing at a phenomenal rate. But proper waterproofing is still a "high premium" and still questionable if it truly works! We definitely have been prioritizing the wrong stuff. That is the point I want to stress.
People who use boats often for work or pleasure often find they have dropped their phone in water. They drop it into shallows, which is usually the case as they drop phones accidentally when climbing / alighting the boats. In such scenarios, it is easy to retrieve the phone, but it would just be a brick by the time it is retrieved. The possibility of communication is vital in such circumstances where they might be traveling over water, possibly alone.What is the point of spending thousands of dollars on communication technology if the communication device is lost when it is needed the most? Precious, unreproducible data such as personal photos of events could be lost too. All this despite years of evolution of the technology?
The last I checked most phones would fail and lose water-proofing if they start ringing underwater. Or their touch sensor won't work, or some sort of handicap like that.
This must go the way of dinosaurs. More accurately, the bicycle licenae and the television reception license.
Don't know about the US, but in India, you needed a license to ride a bicycle on public road till 1947 and TV broadcast reception licence 1984.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
In 2002, the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo announced it had created a silent mobile phone using electromyography and imaging of lip movement. "The spur to developing such a phone," ...
That says a lot about the media than the trains.
What percentage of the comments is not racist or ignoramus flavored?
Waiting for a million posts on UFO tracking websites :D
It is not Javascript . It is dependance on external sources of "Code" .. the "Javascript" or more accurately "Web technologies" are currently in flux. And hence the external sources of "Code" have more chance of bugs.
Now that is a debug framework I have been waiting for years. Waiting for you to publish it on npm and sisters.
Ok, seriously the problem is that coming up with Javascript frameworks is too easy. To the point that, when we start researching on several frameworks, and find that for the particular project at hand, we need 4 different features from 4 different frameworks, and we cant use any because of clashes, or .... we realize that it is way too easy to write our own framework than research the thousands of them. Then, once we have written it, we end up publishing it because it will look good on resume or company profile, not realizing or caring that we are actually contributing to the problem of ever-growing heap of redundant frameworks. Just like fast food vendors know it is now good for your health, but add new tasty unhealthy items because .. hey it sells! Occasionally, the relatively good ones do grow into the "flavor of the month".
Now there is a whole economy on these heaps - newsletters, dedicated websites for reviews, tutorial websites, tutorials on YouTube, marketplaces, site maintenance, consultation, etc.
https://www.palemoon.org/
{ tl;dr Gnome:Mate-Desktop::Firefox:PaleMoon }
I myself am still in love with Firefox. I do miss some of the extensions that I use - like TabGroups. It was like a natural extension of my mind. But I can live through this transition.
For people who still want the older behaviour though, you can try PaleMoon. YMMV.
You can always download newest Firefox manually and run it in a separate folder. It can even use your existing profile - though you may have to re-enable the older extensions when you switch back.
This has been predicted by the Indian stand up comedian Johny Lever long back! I heard it in one of his stand ups in 2006. His prediction might have preceded it much further back.
Google never really tried or wanted that. It's enough to have a Google+ +1 button on every fucking piece of content to track everybody.
then how do you explain Orkut and then Wave and then Google+ ? It took them 3 huge projects to come up with 1 little button?
Microsoft should stop trying to be on the mobile scene,
just like
Google should stop trying to be on the social network scene.
If they give more seriousness to the development though
Yeah, ReactOs could be to Windows, what Mate is to Gnome.
Super capacitors and a very small battery
.... It fixes Bangalore Traffic.
I was beaten to this idea months ago!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eo...
= Reusable / Modular but practical computing platforms =
For God's sake make a laptop where, when the processors, storage, RAM cannot be upgraded anymore to keep up with age the rest of the machine ( the Display, the speakers, keyboard, touchpad etc.) can still be used over standard interfaces like HDMI, 3.5 mm Jack,, USB, PCI express etc. , so that it can be re-used instead of reaching the landfill. E-waste recycling is not yet at it's best in most of the world. And being able to quickly re-use the device in hand in ways unplanned for is what makes a tech-geek the happiest, in addition to mother nature - for keeping her and her children healthy.
Make it semi-modular, with the goals to be both re-usable and hot-swappable. Do not try to be another project ARA.
One way of achieving the above in a way the geeks would love: :
A seperate Compute Module in the spirit of Rpi-compute-module : the size of a small tablet-pc consisting of
* RAM, CPU
* and a small battery(enough to allow hotswapping between terminal),
* wifi, Bluetooth
* an SSD and
*an "expansion port".
This would come in several flavours - from netbook like power with max display res of full HD good for simple computing on-the go, to powerfull ones with Dual 4k displays enough for extreme gaming. These can dock into "Terminal"s and hot-swap between them.
The "Terminal" could be any of your "Terminal" products ( Each with it's own big battery/power supply) :
* A 10 inch laptop like dock, 15 inch, 20 Inch. WIth / Without touch-screen.
* Slim ones with membrane keyboards, small battery
* Fat ones with mechanical keyboards.
* Convertible ones - by detaching or twisting
* A "PC" Like Dock: which simply converts the expansion port into
* 1 or 2 HDMIs
* 4 USB ports,
* ethernet
* audio ports (from HDMI)
* and probably a Hot swappable SATA Port.
* A few different sizes of tablet like Interfaces.
Or any exotic but practical types of "Terminals"
* An "All in one desktop" like terminal with display and sound, with laser projection keyboard built under the display. And a Wacom like digitizer.
Which parliment? Is Slashdot specific to USA or a global website? Why do we have so many reports that simply mention "parliment" or "the Navy" , etc. without mentioning the nation?