Untrue. Sony Ericsson phones can easily have all crapware removed with a simple root. Custom ROMs like CyanogenMod have had problems with driver support, true, but that's a different problem and is being resolved. The camera issue was fixed a week ago.
Why is it that gadget freaks who try to sell crippled hardware always point to EVERYONE ELSE as the consumers who really really wants this instead of pointing to the more factual gadget freaks themselves?
Not much is known about him, except that he's unknown, and a lamer.
Ob. topic, I've only tried a Kindle and a Sony something. The Sony could display PDFs remarkably well for its tiny size (there are bigger ones from Sony, though), and had a touch screen with a stylus you could use for scribbling. E-ink is far better for reading than any traditional screen.
Wow, "+5, insightful" for pretending IT professionals roll their own kernels or run the 'unstable' branch of $distro on 80,000 desktops or whatever. Slashdot truly has been taken over by gadget freaks and trolls.
Not only electricity as such; Thomas Alva Edison had an elephant electrocuted with alternating current, in part as a publicity stunt to show how dangerous AC was (in comparison to his own more benign DC).
Just what exactly is superior about a touch screen interface? Not writing. Not viewing things, as the screen gets smudges. Not photo editing, as your fingers get in the way of the things you manipulate, so that you can't see the things you work on. Surely not ergonomics, as you really need to hold the device when operating it. Usability? Touching an icon with your finger is that much easier than using a pointer? Hardly. Pinch to zoom is easier than using the scroll wheel? Don't make me laugh.
A touch screen isn't better than a traditional mouse+keyboard approach, it's simply necessary to get a big screen on a small device.
But yeah, mobility is pretty huge. Just not for doing actual work.
I'm pretty sure the phrase "Year of Linux on the desktop" hasn't been used without sarcasm the last 10 years. Windows XP made sure that 1) Windows was stable enough to use and 2) that no competing platform could take over for as long as the web was designed for IE6.
As for the future of computing being in smartphones and tablets, that's just hype. The only thing they do better than PCs is mobility, and for nearly everything else, they're worse. They come as an addition, not a replacement. The idea that they're taking over is as silly as when people fantasised about needing new roads when the Segway was introduced.
Wow, "5, insightful" for this drivel. Supporting Wayland doesn't mean ditching X11 or dropping it to secondary class support, at least not until most developers have switched to Wayland. Also, X.org runs on top of Wayland.
No, you're thinking of Gnome2. Gnome2 was dumbed down and had all sorts of features removed, which supposedly was "good for you". Gnome3 is Just Different.
KDE 4.0 was just broken when released. You either had to stay with 3.5 and check out the 4.x series now and then to see whether it had become usable, or switch to something else. Unless you're fond of playing with new and half-broken stuff, you'd want to switch. But now that it's become rather stable, it's still a fairly conventional user interface with some interesting technology underneath (some of it still broken, like Strigi). Gnome3, on the other hand, will never satisfy anyone looking for a conventional desktop computer interface. It's designed for tablets, really, and needs to be tweaked heavily to be acceptable for 22" or more desktop screens. It will likely never be as easy to use on the desktop as Gnome 2.
You sound like a sore loser who puts far too much weight on what some douchebag on Slashdot says. No one chooses a Mac because Windows is "too complicated". They choose it because other people say so.
If you look at the comments under the first Slashdot story covering this, from when people still suspected the Muslims, you'll find several people agreeing with ABB's goals: a war against the Muslim world. Hos co-believers are far too common (more here than elsewhere, i suspect), but luckily very few of them agree with his methods or have the will to do what they think is necessary.
Your opinion of Islam is the fucking mirror image of the Islamists you pretend to condemn. The reason why Muslims can live peacefully in the West is that people like you aren't in charge.
No one knows what he/they killed for. So far, the only suspect -- and by suspect I mean the man who shot dozens of young aspiring politicians at the Utoya summer camp, who had also been observed at the bomb site some time earlier -- is white and Norwegian.
Yeah, I know that after 9/11 it's only natural to blame the islamists, but this one seems to belong to a different group. Unfortunately, though, quite a few idiots think it's reason enough to go out and beat up some darkies.
Hardly. The Norwegian Prime Minister just sent a tweet from his iPad (which, incidentally, qualifies as Slashdot-relevant "news for nerds" these days).
You should know that when 1337 gh3ym4rs call each other 'gay', they mean it pretty much as a synonym of 'lame', which of course is not to say that gay people don't walk properly.
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Paying twice as much to have bloatware removed isn't really a solution. It's more like extortion.
Untrue. Sony Ericsson phones can easily have all crapware removed with a simple root. Custom ROMs like CyanogenMod have had problems with driver support, true, but that's a different problem and is being resolved. The camera issue was fixed a week ago.
Why is it that gadget freaks who try to sell crippled hardware always point to EVERYONE ELSE as the consumers who really really wants this instead of pointing to the more factual gadget freaks themselves?
Not much is known about him, except that he's unknown, and a lamer.
Ob. topic, I've only tried a Kindle and a Sony something. The Sony could display PDFs remarkably well for its tiny size (there are bigger ones from Sony, though), and had a touch screen with a stylus you could use for scribbling. E-ink is far better for reading than any traditional screen.
Isn't Bluetooth HID something that can be implemented with a kernel module? If so, you should be able to get around rolling your own kernel.
Nope, that still doesn't make any sense.
Just be happy that he's no Jon Katz.
Wow, "+5, insightful" for pretending IT professionals roll their own kernels or run the 'unstable' branch of $distro on 80,000 desktops or whatever. Slashdot truly has been taken over by gadget freaks and trolls.
Not only electricity as such; Thomas Alva Edison had an elephant electrocuted with alternating current, in part as a publicity stunt to show how dangerous AC was (in comparison to his own more benign DC).
Just what exactly is superior about a touch screen interface? Not writing. Not viewing things, as the screen gets smudges. Not photo editing, as your fingers get in the way of the things you manipulate, so that you can't see the things you work on. Surely not ergonomics, as you really need to hold the device when operating it. Usability? Touching an icon with your finger is that much easier than using a pointer? Hardly. Pinch to zoom is easier than using the scroll wheel? Don't make me laugh.
A touch screen isn't better than a traditional mouse+keyboard approach, it's simply necessary to get a big screen on a small device.
But yeah, mobility is pretty huge. Just not for doing actual work.
I'm pretty sure the phrase "Year of Linux on the desktop" hasn't been used without sarcasm the last 10 years. Windows XP made sure that 1) Windows was stable enough to use and 2) that no competing platform could take over for as long as the web was designed for IE6.
As for the future of computing being in smartphones and tablets, that's just hype. The only thing they do better than PCs is mobility, and for nearly everything else, they're worse. They come as an addition, not a replacement. The idea that they're taking over is as silly as when people fantasised about needing new roads when the Segway was introduced.
Wow, "5, insightful" for this drivel. Supporting Wayland doesn't mean ditching X11 or dropping it to secondary class support, at least not until most developers have switched to Wayland. Also, X.org runs on top of Wayland.
No, you're thinking of Gnome2. Gnome2 was dumbed down and had all sorts of features removed, which supposedly was "good for you". Gnome3 is Just Different.
KDE 4.0 was just broken when released. You either had to stay with 3.5 and check out the 4.x series now and then to see whether it had become usable, or switch to something else. Unless you're fond of playing with new and half-broken stuff, you'd want to switch. But now that it's become rather stable, it's still a fairly conventional user interface with some interesting technology underneath (some of it still broken, like Strigi). Gnome3, on the other hand, will never satisfy anyone looking for a conventional desktop computer interface. It's designed for tablets, really, and needs to be tweaked heavily to be acceptable for 22" or more desktop screens. It will likely never be as easy to use on the desktop as Gnome 2.
But that's only because they forward your search to the FBI, who doesn't have a public search engine.
You sound like a sore loser who puts far too much weight on what some douchebag on Slashdot says. No one chooses a Mac because Windows is "too complicated". They choose it because other people say so.
If you look at the comments under the first Slashdot story covering this, from when people still suspected the Muslims, you'll find several people agreeing with ABB's goals: a war against the Muslim world. Hos co-believers are far too common (more here than elsewhere, i suspect), but luckily very few of them agree with his methods or have the will to do what they think is necessary.
Your opinion of Islam is the fucking mirror image of the Islamists you pretend to condemn. The reason why Muslims can live peacefully in the West is that people like you aren't in charge.
Wrong.
No one knows what he/they killed for. So far, the only suspect -- and by suspect I mean the man who shot dozens of young aspiring politicians at the Utoya summer camp, who had also been observed at the bomb site some time earlier -- is white and Norwegian.
Yeah, I know that after 9/11 it's only natural to blame the islamists, but this one seems to belong to a different group. Unfortunately, though, quite a few idiots think it's reason enough to go out and beat up some darkies.
The first images from the scene show a car that's been absolutely obliterated. Video (the car about 1 minute in): http://www.nrk.no/video/store_materielle_skader/6073854C1A446E1A/
And re: the blast having happened on the upper floors? No.
Hardly. The Norwegian Prime Minister just sent a tweet from his iPad (which, incidentally, qualifies as Slashdot-relevant "news for nerds" these days).
I find your comment highly offensive against midgets, Sir.
You should know that when 1337 gh3ym4rs call each other 'gay', they mean it pretty much as a synonym of 'lame', which of course is not to say that gay people don't walk properly.
You're being too harsh. Fallout lets you kill good guys as well.