That is exactly what I did. After going through the gyrations and trials detailed by posters above, and failing, I just grabbed one off Craigslist for $180. Still a great deal, and I'm happy with the purchase, although my status as a pre owner and webOS fanboy may cloud that a bit. My BeOS-oh-who-I-love-thee tablet is perfectly fine for now at sub-$200, and sometime early next year it will be running ICS. I haven nothing really to bitch about.
Are you sure that android can do X11 forwarding? I don't mean VNC. I ask because I have a touchpad dual-booting CM7. And while the touchpad side does have an X11 server available (Xserver, Xecutah), I have not yet found anything for android, and would love to be pointed in the right direction.
And while the author did specify 7", I'd just point out that the touchpad comes "rooted."
Unless you have a touchpad. I own a rooted nook and a touchpad, and on my nook adding books was exactly as you described. For some reason they have a special "just for you" gimped version of the Kindle app on the touchpad, and adding books manually requires installing preware, installing a special app called "Kindle Import" or using Calibre. Aside from the stunning lack of an sftp app and the inability to play.avi videos natively, it is the most annoying thing about an otherwise loved device.
I agree. I'm not doing anything related to nuclear power now, but the training I got in the navy has been invaluable to me. As many people say college *should* be, the Nuke Power program taught me how to teach myself and how to absorb massive amounts of information quickly, plus things other posters have mentioned (yes, mistakes are deadly).
After what they did to webOS, and after dangling that one last run for late October, then selling them exclusively to employees and then to Best Buy who decided we had to buy another PC to get one, well.... see the subject line. The can go to hell./butthurt
I've fluttered through various rounds of webOSdoctor and don't have it installed at the moment, but carving out an ext3 slice and installing lxde ubuntu on it also plugs a few holes. They use quite a few nice hacks to make it touch-screen friendly, but it's still not quite as nice as the native webOS. I was using it mainly for gFTP before the CM7 alpha came out.
I tried like hell to get in on the firesale. It didn't bother me that I didn't manage to get one, but the several rounds of "you're in, we've charged your card, your ship date is X... oops, psyche, no TP for you" pissed me right the hell off. Nonetheless, as a palm pre owner and a bit of a fanboy, I really wanted one. I finally caved and grabbed one off craigslist, unopened, for $200. For the hardware and compared to what else you can get out there, $200 is still a steal.
So now I have one, and of course I've got it dual-booting with CM7, but you know what? I still leave it in webOS most of the time. Aside from the glaring lack of an sftp client app for webOS, it does everything I want it to do. And it's slicker, more elegant, just hands-down nicer to use than either iOS or android (Ice Cream might make me re-evaluate, but as things stand). WebOS was the BeOS of our time, and I just hope it will live for at least a few more cycles on the hardware. Two hundred bucks *easily* well spent.
I didn't think I needed a camera, either. However, I've come to find out that there are a lot of reality-overlay sort of features that are impossible for me. I don't care much about video chat, but looking through the tablet like a HUD would be fun.
Exactly. There are a few times where I wish I had a 10" screen, but being able to palm the nook in one hand really is a feature. As a new dad, I end up doing a lot of the "walk around with the baby on your shoulder till she falls asleep." I can safely hold her with one arm, and read on the nook, flipping pages with a thumb-press on the other. I could not do that with my hardback copy of Dance With Dragons.
I disagree. I have a color nook. There are a few times I think a 10" screen would be better, such as when reading.cbr comic books. But being able to palm it in portrait mode and flip pages with one hand is a big plus.
I have a palm pre phone and a color nook running CM7. I really like the nook and felt like I got a good value for my money. But going from my pre to my nook feels like getting my hands lopped off when it comes to actually using the thing. Android feels like only being able to run one app at a time, whereas with the card metaphor in webOS I can seamlessly bounce back and forth between apps, have many things running in the background, and just generally be more efficient. The number of apps in the webOS marketplace is not that big a deal to me. When I got the nook I thought "hot damn, now I can finally get some of the android app goodness." But in fact, all *I* really use is the nook app, kindle app, a good filesystem explorer (EZ Explorer), mail, the web browser, a FB app, and a Google+ app. I think that's about it. Not too long of a list, and basically all those apps are already there.
I came to OS X about two years ago, because a new employer lobbed a macbook at me. Prior to that I'd been working on one linux distro or another for 10 years. There are some nice things about OS X, but one thing I definitely think is a step back towards windows-land is system updates. They do nag, and they almost always require a reboot, and it's not even a comprehensive update that covers all your installed apps. That is ass.
I'm not qualified to speak about what can or can't be done with statistical models. I'm just telling you the screw is kept covered at all times, which is just a simple fact. Anecdotally, I can tell you that of all the classified stuff we were trained on and operated, we were told that the shape of the screw was the most sensitive. You pretty much live or die based on cavitation down there.
I'm not expert in this stuff, but I did do some time on submarines and participated in refueling overhauls and decommissions. When the sub is in drydock the screw is kept covered with a tarp at all times, lest somebody just see the shape of it and glean anti-cavitation tech. So it is plausible to me that just seeing the shape of one of the rotors would be significant.
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That is exactly what I did. After going through the gyrations and trials detailed by posters above, and failing, I just grabbed one off Craigslist for $180. Still a great deal, and I'm happy with the purchase, although my status as a pre owner and webOS fanboy may cloud that a bit. My BeOS-oh-who-I-love-thee tablet is perfectly fine for now at sub-$200, and sometime early next year it will be running ICS. I haven nothing really to bitch about.
WebOS handled it properly, better than Maemo IMO.
Yes, I was as floored by the lack of an X11 server on android as I was by the lack of an GUI SFTP client on the touchpad.
Are you sure that android can do X11 forwarding? I don't mean VNC. I ask because I have a touchpad dual-booting CM7. And while the touchpad side does have an X11 server available (Xserver, Xecutah), I have not yet found anything for android, and would love to be pointed in the right direction.
And while the author did specify 7", I'd just point out that the touchpad comes "rooted."
Unless you have a touchpad. I own a rooted nook and a touchpad, and on my nook adding books was exactly as you described. For some reason they have a special "just for you" gimped version of the Kindle app on the touchpad, and adding books manually requires installing preware, installing a special app called "Kindle Import" or using Calibre. Aside from the stunning lack of an sftp app and the inability to play .avi videos natively, it is the most annoying thing about an otherwise loved device.
I agree. I'm not doing anything related to nuclear power now, but the training I got in the navy has been invaluable to me. As many people say college *should* be, the Nuke Power program taught me how to teach myself and how to absorb massive amounts of information quickly, plus things other posters have mentioned (yes, mistakes are deadly).
After what they did to webOS, and after dangling that one last run for late October, then selling them exclusively to employees and then to Best Buy who decided we had to buy another PC to get one, well.... see the subject line. The can go to hell. /butthurt
I've fluttered through various rounds of webOSdoctor and don't have it installed at the moment, but carving out an ext3 slice and installing lxde ubuntu on it also plugs a few holes. They use quite a few nice hacks to make it touch-screen friendly, but it's still not quite as nice as the native webOS. I was using it mainly for gFTP before the CM7 alpha came out.
I tried like hell to get in on the firesale. It didn't bother me that I didn't manage to get one, but the several rounds of "you're in, we've charged your card, your ship date is X... oops, psyche, no TP for you" pissed me right the hell off. Nonetheless, as a palm pre owner and a bit of a fanboy, I really wanted one. I finally caved and grabbed one off craigslist, unopened, for $200. For the hardware and compared to what else you can get out there, $200 is still a steal.
So now I have one, and of course I've got it dual-booting with CM7, but you know what? I still leave it in webOS most of the time. Aside from the glaring lack of an sftp client app for webOS, it does everything I want it to do. And it's slicker, more elegant, just hands-down nicer to use than either iOS or android (Ice Cream might make me re-evaluate, but as things stand). WebOS was the BeOS of our time, and I just hope it will live for at least a few more cycles on the hardware. Two hundred bucks *easily* well spent.
Go tell your congressman how much you think he sucks.
Now go tell your boss that you think he sucks.
See which one renders your children homeless, and tell me who wields real power over you.
Big, unnamed, telecoms.
And I'm out of mod points today. Hope someone mods you up.
Not in Singapore, it's not. Ever tried Tiger Beer? It'll make grown sailors cry.
The Great and Powerful Turtle is going to compress your house into a tiny ball.
I didn't think I needed a camera, either. However, I've come to find out that there are a lot of reality-overlay sort of features that are impossible for me. I don't care much about video chat, but looking through the tablet like a HUD would be fun.
Exactly. There are a few times where I wish I had a 10" screen, but being able to palm the nook in one hand really is a feature. As a new dad, I end up doing a lot of the "walk around with the baby on your shoulder till she falls asleep." I can safely hold her with one arm, and read on the nook, flipping pages with a thumb-press on the other. I could not do that with my hardback copy of Dance With Dragons.
FWIW, I own a color nook and read on it all the time.
I disagree. I have a color nook. There are a few times I think a 10" screen would be better, such as when reading .cbr comic books. But being able to palm it in portrait mode and flip pages with one hand is a big plus.
I have a palm pre phone and a color nook running CM7. I really like the nook and felt like I got a good value for my money. But going from my pre to my nook feels like getting my hands lopped off when it comes to actually using the thing. Android feels like only being able to run one app at a time, whereas with the card metaphor in webOS I can seamlessly bounce back and forth between apps, have many things running in the background, and just generally be more efficient. The number of apps in the webOS marketplace is not that big a deal to me. When I got the nook I thought "hot damn, now I can finally get some of the android app goodness." But in fact, all *I* really use is the nook app, kindle app, a good filesystem explorer (EZ Explorer), mail, the web browser, a FB app, and a Google+ app. I think that's about it. Not too long of a list, and basically all those apps are already there.
More information here. Yes yes, Maxim. Still a good article.
http://www.maxim.com/amg/humor/stupid-fun/86265/mysterious-death-bushs-cyber-guru.html
The ampache client for webOS is much better than anything currently offered for android.
Clearly lulzsec has some V:TES players in their midst. CCP killed it, the bastards.
I came to OS X about two years ago, because a new employer lobbed a macbook at me. Prior to that I'd been working on one linux distro or another for 10 years. There are some nice things about OS X, but one thing I definitely think is a step back towards windows-land is system updates. They do nag, and they almost always require a reboot, and it's not even a comprehensive update that covers all your installed apps. That is ass.
I'm not qualified to speak about what can or can't be done with statistical models. I'm just telling you the screw is kept covered at all times, which is just a simple fact. Anecdotally, I can tell you that of all the classified stuff we were trained on and operated, we were told that the shape of the screw was the most sensitive. You pretty much live or die based on cavitation down there.
I'm not expert in this stuff, but I did do some time on submarines and participated in refueling overhauls and decommissions. When the sub is in drydock the screw is kept covered with a tarp at all times, lest somebody just see the shape of it and glean anti-cavitation tech. So it is plausible to me that just seeing the shape of one of the rotors would be significant.