I have a smart phone, and a damn good one (Samsung Galaxy Note, 5.3" screen and pretty much best CPU, GPU, Battery...), but no data plan for it. So I get a very low monthly bill, and a nice toy on which to read, play, listen to music, watch videos... WIfi is prett much everuwhere I go, and when there's no wifi, I've got a lot of preloaded content anyway. Best of both worlds ! Of course, I'm not a mail/IM/FB/Twitter addict.
Linux as a whole (kernels, UIs...) has turned into a developers dick size contest. Everybody wags their own, nobody debug/documents/supports appropriately for end users.
1- Why not ? You have inside info on where god intended them to be ? 2- Same: why not ? Ctrl is easier to find too, on the edge of the keyboard. 3- Well, if what you're anxious about is windows control placement and shortcut key, Windows is as good as any OS. And it don't hurt to keep things familiar, changing things for the sake of changing them is pretty gratuitous. BTW, you can swap ctrl and alt via a keymap, if you're really hurting for it.
OK, history with no specific names: - I was giving money to a cancer research assoc., whose boss ended up in prison for stealing from the assoc. - I was giving my blood to a blood bank that was knowingly not recalling un-heated blood, and not heating blood, at the start of the AIDS crisis, to save money.
I work in IT. - One of my clients was a diabetes organization. Don't go there before 10 AM or after 4:30 pm: very light workdays. - During my travels, I often came across XXX assoc dignitaries travelling first-class, and once was invited to the local palace of one of them, with servants and everything.
In the end, all supposed charitable orgs. I've come across were mainly self-serving.
I'm sure there are people in the field for those orgs that are doing great work. I'm just not ready to pay the tax that the fat cats in central offices levy.
I've been profoundly disappointed by all charities I gave to or came in contact with professionally. Give your time to something close to you, not your money.
I don't know why older people have this misconception that young people are more iconoclastic than older ones. Just because the Young do not have the same icons as the old I guess. Teens and young adults are gregarious and sensitive to peer pressure to an extreme, more than more mature people. If Nokia counts on many Young having it as an argument against the iPhone, I wish them good luck. They could try "your moms and dads have them too", but since moms and dads still mostly have Nokias, at least in Europe, that doesn't sound too smart either. Sounds like clutching at straws to me.
That, and the system actually needs to benefit lawyers too, since lawyers are a disproportionate part of politicians and political contributors and lobbyists. They have right now a system that serves them well, they'll fight change or find a way to make it better for them (ie, even more litigious).
have you thought of building a device with a non-touch screen ? Resistive is unusable, capacitive is too expensive. There's a market for an all in one, portable computer, with an external keyboard/pointer.
I don't get people fascination with the Transformer. Any old tablet can take a BT keyboard and mouse, and you won't have to change them with every hardware generation (the Prime can't use the original transformer's dock...). Ditto with the extra battery, there's plenty of generic micro-USB batteries. All of this cheaper than the proprietary stuff, of course.
1st result is for Ubuntu 7.4, might be irrelevant by now. 2nd rseults starts with "modify the BIOS? then install from scratch", which he/she cleary rules out 3rd results is about tweaking menus in gnome, which is not even Ubuntu's desktop anymore.
Unluckily, the exams in question will probably not all be about Linux, so Google might actually be able to find relevant info ^^
you forgot: "and design a new test every year, for each class, and different from all tests ever put out by the tens of thousands of universities over the years, coz those will end up on the interwebz".
since you're obviously not mediocre, i guess you're volunteering, genius ?
Like phones, tablets straddle the line between fashion accessory and computer. I'm fairly sure aesthetics and social consideration weigh a lot in many purchase decisions. So good deals must be available somewhere for those willing to disregard design and fashion.
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I have a smart phone, and a damn good one (Samsung Galaxy Note, 5.3" screen and pretty much best CPU, GPU, Battery...), but no data plan for it. So I get a very low monthly bill, and a nice toy on which to read, play, listen to music, watch videos... WIfi is prett much everuwhere I go, and when there's no wifi, I've got a lot of preloaded content anyway.
Best of both worlds ! Of course, I'm not a mail/IM/FB/Twitter addict.
Linux as a whole (kernels, UIs...) has turned into a developers dick size contest. Everybody wags their own, nobody debug/documents/supports appropriately for end users.
1- Why not ? You have inside info on where god intended them to be ?
2- Same: why not ? Ctrl is easier to find too, on the edge of the keyboard.
3- Well, if what you're anxious about is windows control placement and shortcut key, Windows is as good as any OS. And it don't hurt to keep things familiar, changing things for the sake of changing them is pretty gratuitous. BTW, you can swap ctrl and alt via a keymap, if you're really hurting for it.
And RockMeIt has much better astroturfing !
Not really. OOBE is more important for the 95+% of users who are not hackers.
Users can't fork Linux, they need something premade.
Further, users have computers skills by now, and have no desire to re-learn from scratch.
I've had no experience pointing the other way, either.
OK, history with no specific names:
- I was giving money to a cancer research assoc., whose boss ended up in prison for stealing from the assoc.
- I was giving my blood to a blood bank that was knowingly not recalling un-heated blood, and not heating blood, at the start of the AIDS crisis, to save money.
I work in IT.
- One of my clients was a diabetes organization. Don't go there before 10 AM or after 4:30 pm: very light workdays.
- During my travels, I often came across XXX assoc dignitaries travelling first-class, and once was invited to the local palace of one of them, with servants and everything.
In the end, all supposed charitable orgs. I've come across were mainly self-serving.
I'm sure there are people in the field for those orgs that are doing great work. I'm just not ready to pay the tax that the fat cats in central offices levy.
I've been profoundly disappointed by all charities I gave to or came in contact with professionally.
Give your time to something close to you, not your money.
is it though ?
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
2.2 + 2.3 = 85%
Add in 2.1 and you get to 95%
95% covered in 3 minro revisions doesn't seem too bad, especially with the speed of Android versions slowing down.
Start by firing the persons from the US who *didn't* think of it ?
I don't know why older people have this misconception that young people are more iconoclastic than older ones. Just because the Young do not have the same icons as the old I guess. Teens and young adults are gregarious and sensitive to peer pressure to an extreme, more than more mature people.
If Nokia counts on many Young having it as an argument against the iPhone, I wish them good luck. They could try "your moms and dads have them too", but since moms and dads still mostly have Nokias, at least in Europe, that doesn't sound too smart either.
Sounds like clutching at straws to me.
That, and the system actually needs to benefit lawyers too, since lawyers are a disproportionate part of politicians and political contributors and lobbyists. They have right now a system that serves them well, they'll fight change or find a way to make it better for them (ie, even more litigious).
nope. Gambling is for an expectation of pleasure. And with an external locus of control.
have you thought of building a device with a non-touch screen ? Resistive is unusable, capacitive is too expensive. There's a market for an all in one, portable computer, with an external keyboard/pointer.
I don't get people fascination with the Transformer. Any old tablet can take a BT keyboard and mouse, and you won't have to change them with every hardware generation (the Prime can't use the original transformer's dock...). Ditto with the extra battery, there's plenty of generic micro-USB batteries. All of this cheaper than the proprietary stuff, of course.
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By your reasoning, every one should build their own car.
Wrong. Canon only offers a way to print pictures, not documents, for example.
i do the same thing for complicated calculations. 47x3 I did straight up though.
I was shooting for a few wooshes, but my sig is spoiling it ^^
That's it. Since Phone apps are at the whim of the provider, I'm moving all my stuff to the cloud !
1st result is for Ubuntu 7.4, might be irrelevant by now.
2nd rseults starts with "modify the BIOS? then install from scratch", which he/she cleary rules out
3rd results is about tweaking menus in gnome, which is not even Ubuntu's desktop anymore.
Unluckily, the exams in question will probably not all be about Linux, so Google might actually be able to find relevant info ^^
you forgot: "and design a new test every year, for each class, and different from all tests ever put out by the tens of thousands of universities over the years, coz those will end up on the interwebz".
since you're obviously not mediocre, i guess you're volunteering, genius ?
Like phones, tablets straddle the line between fashion accessory and computer. I'm fairly sure aesthetics and social consideration weigh a lot in many purchase decisions. So good deals must be available somewhere for those willing to disregard design and fashion.