When I got my N900 it was several days before I bothered moving my SIM card over to it. It was so much fun to carry around and use anyway. I used local WIFI connections. The phone functionality is pretty minor part of the device. Popping up remote X windows on the phone rocks, and the display is awesome.
I am now omnipotent!
I work at a federal regulatory agency which is having the same issue. They were asking IT/tech/computer people if there was a solution around. Nobody knew of any software that auto rotates images based on text. Anybody? Reply here.
The reality is that life is much better than when I was a kid hacking on TSRs, Commodores, and Apple ][s, because we have internet and open source. We have all the source code and device drivers for Linux, the world's best operating system that runs on virtually any platform. We have the source code for many great programming languages, python, java, etc, etc.
Screw Apple. They're a shiny gewgaw company and have been for years. You couldn't pay me to buy something from them.
I question their metrics and they try to back it up with lame attempts at statistical reasoning. I really can't blame them since they were probably told in college that logic and reason are superior to evidence and observation.
I work with a number of statisticians and I have the opposite problem. They look at the data, apply mathematical transforms to it, and come to a conclusion, whether that conclusion makes any sense or not. They make little attempt to reason that the data may flawed (which experiments often are), or does not really represent what we are trying to measure, or they are using the wrong statistic to summarize the effect. It is very frustrating.
Or you may have - poor apps whose layout breaks at low DPI - poor apps that don't resize icons for lower resolutions - apps that down-sample resolution poorly etc. And so people should run their screens at high resolution. Not.
The point is that you shouldn't have to change your resolution or worry about resolution or its affect on your apps. The OS should put the resolution at an optimal value for the monitor that you are using. That's what Fedora does for me. A GUI or app that assumes a fixed resolution or font size is a poor app. If you don't use or buy them they will go away.
I doubt people will be getting free cellular internet very long if at all. The SIM card identifies the user as a Nook, and if the service provider has any brains, they will restrict the routing of all traffic from such users to where they want.
Not that this is not a cool hack. I would like to throw in my own SIM card and take this baby for a spin.
Yes, it's called a Linux box running MythTV (or some other PVR software) and Boxee.
Yeah, I tried setting all that up. Got mythtv installed, got the database going, got the client going, got the programming service going, got the recording going, etc, etc. Then I tried to play a video that I recorded and... blank screen. I could play the video directly with mplayer, xine, kaffiene, etc. etc, but no go with Mythtv.
I'm sure I have the ability to diagnose and fix the problem, but I am at a time in my life where I now have significantly more cash than time. I am willing to blow the latter to keep the former. I want to be able to purchase a single box that just works, and does everything: PVR, internet video sites, computer games, internet flash games, plays CDs, DVDs, etc, etc, etc, and open source hackability when I really need it.
Is there anything out there like this that also does DTV/PVR? I don't want to have multiple computers to maintain sitting around my TV set. Oh, yeah, and it has to run Linux.
Real nerds always build their own because finding exactly what you need off the shelf is pain in the ass. Yes, I want a silent case and hard drive, Intel graphics (so the 3D automatically works and I don't have to deal with graphics drivers every time I update), yes I want at least 2 PCI slots for those other cards that I have, etc, etc. It takes less time to just get the parts and put it together yourself than to try to find something that has all the characteristic you need.
1. You still don't have the 160 entries because those are not the ones _in_his_wallet_. Even if you crack his computer, you still don't have his passwords. 2. Even if you crack his computer _and_ get his wallet, you still don't have
A. What this password is for (his bank account? stock account? which web site?)
B. His user id.
C. Which of those 160 entries is it. And by the way, good luck when the the system locks you out after 5 failed attempts.
The window manager should have been part of X from the get-go.
The window manager should NOT be part of X. Choice of window managers is a good thing. And what is even better is choosing and changing window managers without logging out. Or running them in different windows (really handy sometimes.) 99% of users don't do that you say? I don't care. It's nerdy goodness, and this is news for nerds.
The pragmatic reality is that SVG is becoming standard very quickly. Have a look at wikipedia.org. (Have you heard of it?)
" proprietary" solutions are actually the way to go. Read the actual license terms for them and you'll see there's actually NOTHING that they prevent you to do, that you'll likely to have any interest in doing.
Yes, I'm sure that Adobe will have no problem with him using their library in his program that he gives out to all his friends and clients.
Seriously though, if the government purchased software from companies other than Microsoft, we would have much better competition in the marketplace and better alternative software.
There is nothing AV-wise that I have not been able to do w/ mplayer/mencoder. Of course you do have to read the documentation, and try the options, but the power is yours.
Now if we just had a mobile device that ran the software! I've been waiting to upgrade my phone for several years now. I keep waiting for something that is really open. And with python. Has to have python.
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When I got my N900 it was several days before I bothered moving my SIM card over to it. It was so much fun to carry around and use anyway. I used local WIFI connections.
The phone functionality is pretty minor part of the device.
Popping up remote X windows on the phone rocks, and the display is awesome.
I am now omnipotent!
I work at a federal regulatory agency which is having the same issue. They were asking IT/tech/computer people if there was a solution around. Nobody knew of any software that auto rotates images based on text. Anybody? Reply here.
If Woz can reproduce the problem, then I'll believe him.
The reality is that life is much better than when I was a kid hacking on TSRs, Commodores, and Apple ][s, because we have internet and open source. We have all the source code and device drivers for Linux, the world's best operating system that runs on virtually any platform. We have the source code for many great programming languages, python, java, etc, etc.
Screw Apple. They're a shiny gewgaw company and have been for years. You couldn't pay me to buy something from them.
I question their metrics and they try to back it up with lame attempts at statistical reasoning. I really can't blame them since they were probably told in college that logic and reason are superior to evidence and observation.
I work with a number of statisticians and I have the opposite problem. They look at the data, apply mathematical transforms to it, and come to a conclusion, whether that conclusion makes any sense or not. They make little attempt to reason that the data may flawed (which experiments often are), or does not really represent what we are trying to measure, or they are using the wrong statistic to summarize the effect. It is very frustrating.
Or you may have
- poor apps whose layout breaks at low DPI
- poor apps that don't resize icons for lower resolutions
- apps that down-sample resolution poorly
etc.
And so people should run their screens at high resolution. Not.
The point is that you shouldn't have to change your resolution or worry about resolution or its affect on your apps. The OS should put the resolution at an optimal value for the monitor that you are using. That's what Fedora does for me.
A GUI or app that assumes a fixed resolution or font size is a poor app. If you don't use or buy them they will go away.
I doubt people will be getting free cellular internet very long if at all. The SIM card identifies the user as a Nook, and if the service provider has any brains, they will restrict the routing of all traffic from such users to where they want.
Not that this is not a cool hack. I would like to throw in my own SIM card and take this baby for a spin.
Yes, it's called a Linux box running MythTV (or some other PVR software) and Boxee.
Yeah, I tried setting all that up. Got mythtv installed, got the database going, got the client going, got the programming service going, got the recording going, etc, etc. Then I tried to play a video that I recorded and... blank screen. I could play the video directly with mplayer, xine, kaffiene, etc. etc, but no go with Mythtv.
I'm sure I have the ability to diagnose and fix the problem, but I am at a time in my life where I now have significantly more cash than time. I am willing to blow the latter to keep the former. I want to be able to purchase a single box that just works, and does everything: PVR, internet video sites, computer games, internet flash games, plays CDs, DVDs, etc, etc, etc, and open source hackability when I really need it.
Is there anything out there like this that also does DTV/PVR?
I don't want to have multiple computers to maintain sitting around my TV set.
Oh, yeah, and it has to run Linux.
Thanks.
Real nerds always build their own because finding exactly what you need off the shelf is pain in the ass. Yes, I want a silent case and hard drive, Intel graphics (so the 3D automatically works and I don't have to deal with graphics drivers every time I update), yes I want at least 2 PCI slots for those other cards that I have, etc, etc.
It takes less time to just get the parts and put it together yourself than to try to find something that has all the characteristic you need.
1. You still don't have the 160 entries because those are not the ones _in_his_wallet_. Even if you crack his computer, you still don't have his passwords.
2. Even if you crack his computer _and_ get his wallet, you still don't have
A. What this password is for (his bank account? stock account? which web site?)
B. His user id.
C. Which of those 160 entries is it. And by the way, good luck when the the system locks you out after 5 failed attempts.
The window manager should have been part of X from the get-go.
The window manager should NOT be part of X. Choice of window managers is a good thing. And what is even better is choosing and changing window managers without logging out. Or running them in different windows (really handy sometimes.)
99% of users don't do that you say? I don't care. It's nerdy goodness, and this is news for nerds.
It's HTML, which is really close to C++.
See:
http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Linux_Applications
Enjoy your gcc.
I have to agree. Sam & Max (even the new 3D ones) are laugh-my-ass-off funny, and some of the puzzles in the game are equally comedically brilliant.
The pragmatic reality is that SVG is becoming standard very quickly. Have a look at wikipedia.org. (Have you heard of it?)
" proprietary" solutions are actually the way to go. Read the actual license terms for them and you'll see there's actually NOTHING that they prevent you to do, that you'll likely to have any interest in doing.
Yes, I'm sure that Adobe will have no problem with him using their library in his program that he gives out to all his friends and clients.
When I installed Linux my Canon scanner just worked.
When I installed Windows, it told me I needed to install a driver. What does that mean?
Seriously though, if the government purchased software from companies other than Microsoft, we would have much better competition in the marketplace and better alternative software.
Open Source would have saved Sun, if they had thought of it 18 years ago. But they spent so long fighting it, when they finally flipped no one cared.
how the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products.
Stop purchasing Microsoft products. Duh.
Step 1: Don't buy anything with DRM protection.
Step 2: Repeat.
I did
There is nothing AV-wise that I have not been able to do w/ mplayer/mencoder.
Of course you do have to read the documentation, and try the options, but the power is yours.
Type "radon earthquake" into google.
Now if we just had a mobile device that ran the software!
I've been waiting to upgrade my phone for several years now. I keep waiting for something that is really open. And with python. Has to have python.