I prefer the REM, but in academia and health physics it seems the Sievert is more prevalent. They are both units that express not just energy, but biological damage.
I would prefer a straight tax on carbon over cap and trade, but cap and trade demonstrably worked with SO2, so is it really rational to be so worked up about it now?
Sound over HDMI is why I bought a boxee box, after running it alongside mythtv in my own system for years. Got tired of trying to fight it, and losing.
Well your mileage varies, then. As I pointed out in my original post, the 7" nook color was a bit too small for my taste, but I find a 10" screen to be just fine. Occasionally I will zoom in on something every now and then, which a good comic reader makes easy, but in general I find them to be very readable, and having, say, the entire run of Astro City, The Boys, The Walking Dead, and a good clutch of Alan Moore all on one device to be pretty awesome.
They rock for reading comic books in.cbr formats. That's mostly what I use my touchpad for. I had a nook before and in some ways I think a 7" device is superior. But for reading comics you really do want that 9.7" screen.
I remember finishing Nuke School in the early nineties, and one of my buddies went surface and got assigned to the Enterprise. It was kind of a good deal for him since he went straight to the shipyard instead of going out to see on a non-hoopty vessel. But we stayed in touch for a while after our assignments and I remember him telling me "dude, I will *never* go out to sea on this thing, I'll jump ship first." Obviously a bit of hyperbole involved, but the ship was showing its age even back then.
It's probably more my fault than E17's, but E16 was the best I could ever get to actually run. I kept trying E17 (years ago), but just couldn't get it to compile, or packages would be broken, or... something. It was always something I eyed wistfully from afar and read great things about, but never got to use. How is it these days? Is it simply apt-getable or emergable (I'm also toying with going back to gentoo since I do not currently hold a position where I ought to be eating my own dogfood on the desktop I'm making everyone else use, i.e. "not gentoo").
I also have a fondness for some of the more robust WM's in lieu of full blown desktops. I thought WMaker was neat, but Fluxbox is what I really enjoyed. I got lured away by compiz years ago, but I've been thinking of going back because Gnome/Ubuntu is imploding, and KDE is not to my taste. Anyway, check out Fluxbox, if you never did.
They don't even need to go that far. My company has a strict policy of not transmitting passwords by email. It can be a bit of a pain when working with vendors sometimes, but there's a good reason for it.
Different strokes and all that, but as a long-time HOMM fan, 5 was my favorite. I thought 4 was the abortion. I haven't played 6 yet, so I'm not sure where it fits in. I think everyone agrees that 3 was a high-water mark, but I thought the much finer-grained skills progression with the heroes more than made up for a few deficiencies 5 had compared to 3.
I have Ubuntu running as a touch-optimized LXDE environment on my touchpad. It runs in a card, no dual-booting necessary. Not sure if it meets all your needs, but instructions can be found here:
Scroll down to the "Advanced Stuff, there be dragons ahead" for instructions to get you started. There's an easier way and a harder way to do it, but the harder way will result in a more configurable, easier to startup system.
1.) I also own android devices. The multitasking there is limited to certain apps. You have to close one app to open another, and how it behaves while backgrounded and where it will be when you restore varies greatly.
2.) Yes, but the notification system in WebOS is just better. Also, the other half of my second point was "Synergy," which folds your emails, IM's, and SMS's into a unified system that is very nice.
3.) This one is my fault, as I was thinking specifically of the touchpad. On the touchpad, you can pair the device with a phone, and route your phone activity over to the tablet.
"What was special about webos from the user point of view?"
1. Cards metaphor, true multitasking 2. Synergy, and the notification system 3. Bluetooth pairing even with non-webos phones, to accept calls and display SMS messages.
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I feel ya. Replacing my webOS phone today for a Galaxy Nexus, with no small amount of sadness.
'Remember what Rahm Emanuel said; "Never let a good emergency go to waste."'
Can you imagine any other, perhaps less insidious, interpretation of what he meant by that?
I prefer the REM, but in academia and health physics it seems the Sievert is more prevalent. They are both units that express not just energy, but biological damage.
I would prefer a straight tax on carbon over cap and trade, but cap and trade demonstrably worked with SO2, so is it really rational to be so worked up about it now?
Palm innovated its ass off with webOS. It failed anyway, but not because of that.
"It even handles downloading of subtitles for the current title from the Internet, something I haven't seen any media player do."
Of course I am aware of the relationship between boxee and xbmc, but from the average consumer's perspective, boxee does this as well.
Sound over HDMI is why I bought a boxee box, after running it alongside mythtv in my own system for years. Got tired of trying to fight it, and losing.
Well your mileage varies, then. As I pointed out in my original post, the 7" nook color was a bit too small for my taste, but I find a 10" screen to be just fine. Occasionally I will zoom in on something every now and then, which a good comic reader makes easy, but in general I find them to be very readable, and having, say, the entire run of Astro City, The Boys, The Walking Dead, and a good clutch of Alan Moore all on one device to be pretty awesome.
They rock for reading comic books in .cbr formats. That's mostly what I use my touchpad for. I had a nook before and in some ways I think a 7" device is superior. But for reading comics you really do want that 9.7" screen.
I remember finishing Nuke School in the early nineties, and one of my buddies went surface and got assigned to the Enterprise. It was kind of a good deal for him since he went straight to the shipyard instead of going out to see on a non-hoopty vessel. But we stayed in touch for a while after our assignments and I remember him telling me "dude, I will *never* go out to sea on this thing, I'll jump ship first." Obviously a bit of hyperbole involved, but the ship was showing its age even back then.
Downloading it now. That looks really interesting. Thanks!
It's probably more my fault than E17's, but E16 was the best I could ever get to actually run. I kept trying E17 (years ago), but just couldn't get it to compile, or packages would be broken, or... something. It was always something I eyed wistfully from afar and read great things about, but never got to use. How is it these days? Is it simply apt-getable or emergable (I'm also toying with going back to gentoo since I do not currently hold a position where I ought to be eating my own dogfood on the desktop I'm making everyone else use, i.e. "not gentoo").
I also have a fondness for some of the more robust WM's in lieu of full blown desktops. I thought WMaker was neat, but Fluxbox is what I really enjoyed. I got lured away by compiz years ago, but I've been thinking of going back because Gnome/Ubuntu is imploding, and KDE is not to my taste. Anyway, check out Fluxbox, if you never did.
It is, and it is a much better story.
Franklin was a Deist, and suggesting that Jefferson was a Christian in any meaningful sense is hilarious.
Can it be mounted on a *nix box? Honest question.
Dude you have no saber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HX5-ulcdXc
They don't even need to go that far. My company has a strict policy of not transmitting passwords by email. It can be a bit of a pain when working with vendors sometimes, but there's a good reason for it.
Different strokes and all that, but as a long-time HOMM fan, 5 was my favorite. I thought 4 was the abortion. I haven't played 6 yet, so I'm not sure where it fits in. I think everyone agrees that 3 was a high-water mark, but I thought the much finer-grained skills progression with the heroes more than made up for a few deficiencies 5 had compared to 3.
See, I'd mod you up there, but it would feel weird.
I have Ubuntu running as a touch-optimized LXDE environment on my touchpad. It runs in a card, no dual-booting necessary. Not sure if it meets all your needs, but instructions can be found here:
http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad/293028-new-touchpad-heres-your-get-started-guide.html/
Scroll down to the "Advanced Stuff, there be dragons ahead" for instructions to get you started. There's an easier way and a harder way to do it, but the harder way will result in a more configurable, easier to startup system.
1.) I also own android devices. The multitasking there is limited to certain apps. You have to close one app to open another, and how it behaves while backgrounded and where it will be when you restore varies greatly.
2.) Yes, but the notification system in WebOS is just better. Also, the other half of my second point was "Synergy," which folds your emails, IM's, and SMS's into a unified system that is very nice.
3.) This one is my fault, as I was thinking specifically of the touchpad. On the touchpad, you can pair the device with a phone, and route your phone activity over to the tablet.
Out of curiosity, have you used webOS?
"What was special about webos from the user point of view?"
1. Cards metaphor, true multitasking
2. Synergy, and the notification system
3. Bluetooth pairing even with non-webos phones, to accept calls and display SMS messages.
Off the top of my head.
This is a good start:
http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Installation
I would also like more information on this. But seeing as you can run Ubuntu in a card on a touchpad, that seems like a likely candidate.