Well, I wouldn't put it quite that far. He most likely didn't get paid, as he said, or got paid very little. This is actually a good story to have around: It proves that being a snitch *isn't* worth it.
Not that I like apple, but the Iphone 4's screen is currently the best on the market. There are others that come close, but sadly I'm not seeing other high-res, small-form-factor displays. Maby one or two devices above ~800x480 in the 7" form factor.
So, yes, thinking purely about the screen, there *isn't* anything better. But thinking about everything... well, I'd argue that my 2008-vintage N900 is far better, along with just about any other phone with a hardware keyboard, 800x480 screen and unlocked bootloader.
Um... Incase you don't realize it, that's the way it currently is: With my x86_64 system, and the ia32-libs package(and a couple of others), I can(and do) run 32-bit excecutables. On windows, you've got the same thing. Thing is, x86 isn't gone. All desktop processors may be x86_64, but we've got lots of low powered chips that are 32 bit, and will continue to be so for the forseeable future. We also have ARM chips taking center stage, and being able to seamlessly install and run x86 software on ARM and vice-versa(thanks to qemu) will be a major boon.
As far as companies being lazy? Um... That's not exactly new, this won't change anything. I don't see the issue.
Some mfgrs will. Why? Because it's generally loads better than Windows on underperforming hardware. Sure, gaming performance might be a little less, and benchmarks might not show it, but as far as overall responsiveness, Linux beats Windows any day. Also, if Meego takes off, there will be an opportunity to throw a KDE or Gnome front-end on your Meego tablet, either aftermarket or stock. And it just might be an improvement there.
Seconded! Personally though, I like the clearlooks/cleanlooks style to be better than both, but...
Also, I run a very mixed desktop - half KDE, half GTK apps on top of a KDE desktop, with Metacity for my window manager. How more mixed could you get?:P
Mod parent up! I think this is a very good idea, though I might allow extensions up to 100 years in 10 year increments... but it'd cost a rediculous amount of money(several million dollars at least) per work for the last 10 years. It would be expensive enough that only a few works would be kept, and since it costs so much, it would basically require the company to make money off of it. Oh, and at the same time it'd *really* balance the budget... and help keep companies like Disney from trying to change the laws.
Heh, true. Though that doesn't mean it isn't dumpiing loads of heat into the air. My amd quad's generally very quiet - Got a nice 120mm fan on a quality heatpipe cooler, but despite that, the rig draws at least 250W at idle, 350 while gaming. Which means that's about how mucit's dumping into the air. But it's quiet while doing it!
At least, in the US, if they're in a public place they waive that right. Until you know what laws apply in the country in question, don't make assumptions.
Except this is wrong. You don't *need* electricity from the power company. You *can* do without - Light and heat can be generated by other methods(burning wood, gas, etc), refrigeration as well. And if you *do* need electricity for some specific thing, you can always setup a couple of batteries, inverter and charge them with your choice of method: Solar, wind, gas generator, or even using your vehicle to charge them on the way to work. So, yes. It may be a Hobson's Choice... But you *do* have the choice to just "leave it" and do without. If the company was providing something like air - something that, without which, you couldn't live and there was no other alternative to, you might have a point. But your example isn't that way.
Don't bother. Tweak your n900, and keep it for a couple more years. N950' nothing special, and *way* more locked down than the n900. Heck, it may not even be possible to have phone functionality with a custom kernel(thanks to TC/signed binaries!
Yea, go with the N900. If you take the time to do some minor tweaking, install a few community packages and possibly OC it... you can get an extremely fast device out of it, and there's just about nothing it can't do. You can get USB hostmode working and hook up keyboards, usb drives and the like, write and compile software, run just about anything written on Python or comes with a Debian ARM system. Yea. It's nice. I would *not* go for a N9/N950 - They seriously locked it down, with signed binaries, a TC chip, and locked bootloader. Apparently it's possible to run a different kernel, but without phone-module functionality and a bunch of other stuff. The n900 on the other hand... Custom kernel? Just install it. uBoot? Sure. Run Maemo, Meego, Debian and Ubuntu as discreet OS's or chroots? Sure.
KDE is "windows", I'll give it that. It can feel a lot snappier than Vista or 7, though, depending on hardware / tweaks. I'd recommend KDE to people who like the Windows environment. There's plenty of lightweight stuff out there, though, like LXDE(with Openbox), but in my experience, they sacrifice a lot of Just Works attitude for speed and being lightweight. Perfect for someone who can drop to a terminal and edit config... not so good for a newbie.
It's an interesting point, but it seems that it should be possible to teach Microevolution( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microevolution ) which we've seen in the lab, without adding in a bunch about Macroevolution which we *can't* prove(Did *you* see personally see fish evolve into something else? ) . Now, don't mistake this for thinking I mean that Creationism is a better option - it isn't. But there are other options out there, like evolution through punctuated equalibriam versus gradual change. That is, if half the population dies out overnight, I'm sure you'd see some big changes in the norm, because of what now *wouldn'* be there. The thing I see is a simplistic view on both sides, and an argument that what we see in small scale must translate linearly to large scale and vise-versa. Which, in a number of other fields, is simply not true; so why should we assume it with evolution? Now, all I'm really saying here is that evolution on a large scale may not be linear, or smooth over time. On the other hand it might be. But pushing one of these options as fact, without adaquate proof... that's just as misguided as pushing creationism.
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed for this, but... it has to be said.
Yea, exactly. And, provided you do your coding right, those versions can be one and the same. Perhaps some extra css for nonstandard features(like rotating text), but it could probably be done with a single version. And, honestly, compared to the VB applications that are probably in use(see http://www.thedailywtf.com/ ), it could easily feel snappy.
Yea, but thanks to the Wintel revolution, we have Windows XP on P4's instead. If you've got Linux or Unix, sure. But the OP doesn't. He has mostly aged Windows boxes, which hopefully run XP or 2K.
I'd argue that it's simply the fact that iPhone-using kiddies are very vocal about it, and will vote for anything with iPhone in it. And/or "timothy" is in the above group.
I mean... I know *plenty* of interesting stuff done with other devices -- Like the N900 for example -- but it just wouldn't reach the same level of publicity. It'd be like "We just created this great tool to read tattool ink!" "So? You just threw together a few OSS libraries anddid some processing. Big deal?"
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Hm, yea. Actually, I wonder: With NoScript, JS isn't run, but is it cached anyway? If so, it wouldn't solve the problem. If not... Great!
Well, I wouldn't put it quite that far. He most likely didn't get paid, as he said, or got paid very little. This is actually a good story to have around: It proves that being a snitch *isn't* worth it.
Not that I like apple, but the Iphone 4's screen is currently the best on the market. There are others that come close, but sadly I'm not seeing other high-res, small-form-factor displays. Maby one or two devices above ~800x480 in the 7" form factor.
So, yes, thinking purely about the screen, there *isn't* anything better. But thinking about everything... well, I'd argue that my 2008-vintage N900 is far better, along with just about any other phone with a hardware keyboard, 800x480 screen and unlocked bootloader.
Um... Incase you don't realize it, that's the way it currently is: With my x86_64 system, and the ia32-libs package(and a couple of others), I can(and do) run 32-bit excecutables. On windows, you've got the same thing.
Thing is, x86 isn't gone. All desktop processors may be x86_64, but we've got lots of low powered chips that are 32 bit, and will continue to be so for the forseeable future.
We also have ARM chips taking center stage, and being able to seamlessly install and run x86 software on ARM and vice-versa(thanks to qemu) will be a major boon.
As far as companies being lazy? Um... That's not exactly new, this won't change anything. I don't see the issue.
And it seems to me that Debian can simply make a symlink from the new x86_64 directory to /lib64 for compatibility's sake, if it's ever needed.
Seems like a great addition for compiling for ARM on amd64 or any other combination you can think of.
They do. It's called China.
And you can buy just about anything from there, IP be damned! And it's cheap, too.
Some mfgrs will. Why? Because it's generally loads better than Windows on underperforming hardware. Sure, gaming performance might be a little less, and benchmarks might not show it, but as far as overall responsiveness, Linux beats Windows any day.
Also, if Meego takes off, there will be an opportunity to throw a KDE or Gnome front-end on your Meego tablet, either aftermarket or stock. And it just might be an improvement there.
Isn't there an old quote that states that when soldiers stop complaining, they've lost hope(or something like that?
It's exactly that here: With KDE, it's possible to make change happen. Windows? No way!
So, people complain. Because it might get better.
Seconded!
Personally though, I like the clearlooks/cleanlooks style to be better than both, but...
Also, I run a very mixed desktop - half KDE, half GTK apps on top of a KDE desktop, with Metacity for my window manager. How more mixed could you get? :P
Mod parent up!
I think this is a very good idea, though I might allow extensions up to 100 years in 10 year increments... but it'd cost a rediculous amount of money(several million dollars at least) per work for the last 10 years.
It would be expensive enough that only a few works would be kept, and since it costs so much, it would basically require the company to make money off of it. Oh, and at the same time it'd *really* balance the budget... and help keep companies like Disney from trying to change the laws.
Heh, true. Though that doesn't mean it isn't dumpiing loads of heat into the air.
My amd quad's generally very quiet - Got a nice 120mm fan on a quality heatpipe cooler, but despite that, the rig draws at least 250W at idle, 350 while gaming. Which means that's about how mucit's dumping into the air. But it's quiet while doing it!
So, in that case, you just find any divx/xvid-streaming site. That'll work on Linux. Same with anything flash based.
At least, in the US, if they're in a public place they waive that right.
Until you know what laws apply in the country in question, don't make assumptions.
Except this is wrong. You don't *need* electricity from the power company. You *can* do without - Light and heat can be generated by other methods(burning wood, gas, etc), refrigeration as well.
And if you *do* need electricity for some specific thing, you can always setup a couple of batteries, inverter and charge them with your choice of method: Solar, wind, gas generator, or even using your vehicle to charge them on the way to work.
So, yes. It may be a Hobson's Choice... But you *do* have the choice to just "leave it" and do without.
If the company was providing something like air - something that, without which, you couldn't live and there was no other alternative to, you might have a point. But your example isn't that way.
Don't bother. Tweak your n900, and keep it for a couple more years. N950' nothing special, and *way* more locked down than the n900. Heck, it may not even be possible to have phone functionality with a custom kernel(thanks to TC/signed binaries!
Because Maemo's a real OS with Xorg. Android and iOS are "toy" OS's
Yea, go with the N900. If you take the time to do some minor tweaking, install a few community packages and possibly OC it... you can get an extremely fast device out of it, and there's just about nothing it can't do. You can get USB hostmode working and hook up keyboards, usb drives and the like, write and compile software, run just about anything written on Python or comes with a Debian ARM system. Yea. It's nice.
I would *not* go for a N9/N950 - They seriously locked it down, with signed binaries, a TC chip, and locked bootloader. Apparently it's possible to run a different kernel, but without phone-module functionality and a bunch of other stuff.
The n900 on the other hand... Custom kernel? Just install it. uBoot? Sure. Run Maemo, Meego, Debian and Ubuntu as discreet OS's or chroots? Sure.
Yea. I'm not giving mine up.
KDE is "windows", I'll give it that. It can feel a lot snappier than Vista or 7, though, depending on hardware / tweaks.
I'd recommend KDE to people who like the Windows environment.
There's plenty of lightweight stuff out there, though, like LXDE(with Openbox), but in my experience, they sacrifice a lot of Just Works attitude for speed and being lightweight. Perfect for someone who can drop to a terminal and edit config... not so good for a newbie.
It's an interesting point, but it seems that it should be possible to teach Microevolution( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microevolution ) which we've seen in the lab, without adding in a bunch about Macroevolution which we *can't* prove(Did *you* see personally see fish evolve into something else? ) . Now, don't mistake this for thinking I mean that Creationism is a better option - it isn't. But there are other options out there, like evolution through punctuated equalibriam versus gradual change. That is, if half the population dies out overnight, I'm sure you'd see some big changes in the norm, because of what now *wouldn'* be there.
The thing I see is a simplistic view on both sides, and an argument that what we see in small scale must translate linearly to large scale and vise-versa. Which, in a number of other fields, is simply not true; so why should we assume it with evolution?
Now, all I'm really saying here is that evolution on a large scale may not be linear, or smooth over time. On the other hand it might be. But pushing one of these options as fact, without adaquate proof... that's just as misguided as pushing creationism.
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed for this, but... it has to be said.
Yea, exactly. And, provided you do your coding right, those versions can be one and the same. Perhaps some extra css for nonstandard features(like rotating text), but it could probably be done with a single version. And, honestly, compared to the VB applications that are probably in use(see http://www.thedailywtf.com/ ), it could easily feel snappy.
Yea, but thanks to the Wintel revolution, we have Windows XP on P4's instead.
If you've got Linux or Unix, sure. But the OP doesn't. He has mostly aged Windows boxes, which hopefully run XP or 2K.
But the same point could be made for Android phones, and they're more ubiquitous.
I'd argue that it's simply the fact that iPhone-using kiddies are very vocal about it, and will vote for anything with iPhone in it. And/or "timothy" is in the above group.
I mean... I know *plenty* of interesting stuff done with other devices -- Like the N900 for example -- but it just wouldn't reach the same level of publicity. It'd be like "We just created this great tool to read tattool ink!" "So? You just threw together a few OSS libraries anddid some processing. Big deal?"
But on the IPhone... I guess it *is* a big deal.
I, for one, welcome our Furry overlords.