To me, this look's like cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs. With 260 dollars you can have WeTab with 10" 1366x768, 3G, GPS, 32G SSD and Intel Atom. I'm not sure why WeTab pretty much failed, custom WeTab UI is pretty good and tablet runs unmodified Debian and Ubuntu if you wish. However, i'm happy to see something like this appearing and it could be useful if it would only cost around 150 dollars.
I once peeled most of everything from my ThinkPad laptop display and it became transparent, still fully working. It was pretty cool and i think i still have it somewhere.
Basic Google API for commercial use costs $10.000/year. You can't get it for less no matter how little you use it.
That said, i don't think Google tries to do any damage to OpenStreetMaps.
I live in Finland and i had unlimited and non-restricted 10/10 Mbit/s connection first time in year 2001, sure we had slower DSL connections before that too. Cost was around 40e/month. Currenlty i have unlimited, non-restricted (yes, i can run servers if i like) 100/100 Mbit/s connection for 30e/month. I also have optic fiber cable in my 1975 build flat, but i currently have no use for that. I also have unlimited 3G mobile broadband (two actually) that cost's less than 10 euros/month they transfer around 2-6Mbit/s.
What i have heard is that in US connection are capped, unreliable and slow. Maybe you should visit Europe someday.
I moved to openSUSE two years ago after official Kubuntu relaeases started to be so broken that you could not use bluetooth for example. openSUSE is very polished and i can recommend it. For servers and other similar systems i would choose Debian.
Generally, issues i have had lately with Linux distributions are non-working graphics drivers. I have two laptops with Sandybridge and other keeps crashing X, other shows black screen from boot. Also laptops with two graphics cards are now causing big problems but tweaking with Bumblebee should help (until you upgrade...).
I got brand new Lenovo IdeaPad U160 with i3 about year ago. Tried Debian and openSuse, both had issues with intel graphics driver (black screen). There is bug report opened and some patches available, but i gave up after 6 months of trying. Full story here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/608907
Do you have any idea how long it would take to just compile kernel on 386sx and 4MB of memory? My guess would be something around 6-10 days and it would be almost impossible with 120MB HD. Oh, and i really would like to see how that old HD would bang swap partition while compiling with that amount of RAM:)
If DRM allows true PC version of games, then so be it. We are already seeing that PC is not very loved game platform. Most of the games released are ported from PS or XBox and games developed for PC from start could look much better. Mouse & keyboard also allow better controls, no reason to force controls to gamepad or similar device.
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To me, this look's like cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs. With 260 dollars you can have WeTab with 10" 1366x768, 3G, GPS, 32G SSD and Intel Atom. I'm not sure why WeTab pretty much failed, custom WeTab UI is pretty good and tablet runs unmodified Debian and Ubuntu if you wish. However, i'm happy to see something like this appearing and it could be useful if it would only cost around 150 dollars.
I once peeled most of everything from my ThinkPad laptop display and it became transparent, still fully working. It was pretty cool and i think i still have it somewhere.
Basic Google API for commercial use costs $10.000/year. You can't get it for less no matter how little you use it. That said, i don't think Google tries to do any damage to OpenStreetMaps.
What? They mean that after upgrade, there will be no GPS available anymore? That sounds like severe hardware issue and they try to blame software.
I had hard time with Amarok 2.0 too, but it was still much better than anything else. And then, Spotify came.
Well, i live in Oulu, Finland. Does that count as area where no one lives? .. and yes, this is stupid thing to discuss.
But that's still better than in most USA :)
I have DNA. You should get static IP-address for few euros.
I live in Finland and i had unlimited and non-restricted 10/10 Mbit/s connection first time in year 2001, sure we had slower DSL connections before that too. Cost was around 40e/month. Currenlty i have unlimited, non-restricted (yes, i can run servers if i like) 100/100 Mbit/s connection for 30e/month. I also have optic fiber cable in my 1975 build flat, but i currently have no use for that. I also have unlimited 3G mobile broadband (two actually) that cost's less than 10 euros/month they transfer around 2-6Mbit/s. What i have heard is that in US connection are capped, unreliable and slow. Maybe you should visit Europe someday.
WeTab comes with Meego by default, so answer is yes. It uses Intel ATOM, google for more.
WeTab / ExoPC as mentioned here before. 3G version is available.
I moved to openSUSE two years ago after official Kubuntu relaeases started to be so broken that you could not use bluetooth for example. openSUSE is very polished and i can recommend it. For servers and other similar systems i would choose Debian. Generally, issues i have had lately with Linux distributions are non-working graphics drivers. I have two laptops with Sandybridge and other keeps crashing X, other shows black screen from boot. Also laptops with two graphics cards are now causing big problems but tweaking with Bumblebee should help (until you upgrade...).
Ok, it looks like after 9 months problem actually got fixed with undocumented kernel option.
I got brand new Lenovo IdeaPad U160 with i3 about year ago. Tried Debian and openSuse, both had issues with intel graphics driver (black screen). There is bug report opened and some patches available, but i gave up after 6 months of trying. Full story here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/608907
Yeah, there is no story at all and nothing to see.
Well, we did have Voodoo GFX card's and some of them were named Blackmagic 3D.
Yes, it was common back in 80's to do some basic basic. Maybe HTML and JS could replace that now.
Yes.
Just tried it. It was free.
I would like to hear what your job is if you only need to use Notepad?
Do you have any idea how long it would take to just compile kernel on 386sx and 4MB of memory? My guess would be something around 6-10 days and it would be almost impossible with 120MB HD. Oh, and i really would like to see how that old HD would bang swap partition while compiling with that amount of RAM :)
If DRM allows true PC version of games, then so be it. We are already seeing that PC is not very loved game platform. Most of the games released are ported from PS or XBox and games developed for PC from start could look much better. Mouse & keyboard also allow better controls, no reason to force controls to gamepad or similar device.
Yes, i know that is the slogan. This article doesn't fit that category either.
Because Slashdot i no more what it used to be 5-10 years ago - news for nerds, intresting stuff.
5 years? That is nothing compared to this KMail bug opened in 2004 : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77862