Nothing that Maemo 6 does can stop me updating the N900. Maybe I won't be able to update it to Maemo 6, but I'll still be able to update it. Just 'cos windows 7 doesn't run on my old laptop doesn't mean I can't run a Debian (damn but that sentence has too many negatives:-)).
I recently bought a ~600USD device because most of the software it runs is FOSS.
FOSS is an enormously important feature outside the "PC" world, and pretty important in the PC world. Look up why RMS started GNU and the FSF. What are you going to do when your software supplier stops making new releases for the hardware you've got? Thrown it away?
(Details - I had a Nokia E90, a lovely machine, but, since Symbian S60 is closed source I have no way of replacing the increasingly outdated built in apps. Now I have a Nokia N900, and almost all of Maemo is FOSS and I can keep using it even when Nokia release the N999 and lose all interest in it.)
Apple doesn't allow other apps to multitask, and purposely didn't create a way for other apps to because it [...] prevents apps from taking over the phone.
Ironically, Amtrak is starting to come up with strange rules on what you can have on a train. I'm still trying to understand what a terrorist is going to do on a train. We know were you are headed.
First, please note that this attempted terrorist attach was foiled not by TSA or Air Marshalls but by that famous Joe Six Pack that is the icon of America.
Nah, as with some other recent attacks (chapati flour bombers, flaming doctors) the attack was foiled by the terrorist himself. Joe Six Pack, as in London and Glasgow saved the terrorists life.
Al-Q are way past the "B" team, they're down near the "Z" team now.
I expect that all the Al-Q "franchise" operations (Al-Q in Iraq, Al-Q in the Maghreb and so on) are going to be looking for a new name soon.
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No mention of the N900.
Drawn on N900. LOL...I cringe at how bad this looks (though it is unfinished)
or just a stealth boy?
I suppose by "can do" you mean "compute computable things.".
So you never try new software on your computer? How odd.
Nothing that Maemo 6 does can stop me updating the N900. Maybe I won't be able to update it to Maemo 6, but I'll still be able to update it. Just 'cos windows 7 doesn't run on my old laptop doesn't mean I can't run a Debian (damn but that sentence has too many negatives :-)).
"[It] must of made a terrible mess".
Speak English like an Englishman, me.
Oh, exactly, like almost every other phone in the world. Good thing the designed the N900 so I can update it.
ITYM "unsuccessfully, killing only the bomber".
It's like jumping on your own hand grenade.
(Must of made a horrible mess though).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/21/bum_bombing/
Duh, I'm dumb.
And what do you do the next time Apple trash your "jailbroken" phone?
And can you recompile the kernel on your jailbroken phone?
As for "features for the sake of features", which of these is a "feature for the sake of features"?
What the 3Gs has that the N900 doesn't:
For us geeks:
It does flash now?
Well, why doesn't it? Do you mean Win7 64bit can't run 32bit programs? Why the fuck not?
I recently bought a ~600USD device because most of the software it runs is FOSS.
FOSS is an enormously important feature outside the "PC" world, and pretty important in the PC world. Look up why RMS started GNU and the FSF. What are you going to do when your software supplier stops making new releases for the hardware you've got? Thrown it away?
(Details - I had a Nokia E90, a lovely machine, but, since Symbian S60 is closed source I have no way of replacing the increasingly outdated built in apps. Now I have a Nokia N900, and almost all of Maemo is FOSS and I can keep using it even when Nokia release the N999 and lose all interest in it.)
That's foreword to you, stranger.
ITYM the Boston Strangler.
Apart from these minor errors of spelling and fact you are, of course, totally correct.
HTH. HAND.
as long as you have the DRM keys and compatible hardware.
Wah? WTF? My brain just exploded.
But, but, but... I'm just getting used to my N900 and you want me to buy a N9000!
Aaargh!
They're the Met office. Pedantic is their job.
So, how many dead on Amtrak in 2009?
Maybe you should check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Terrorist_incidents_on_railway_systems.
Nah, as with some other recent attacks (chapati flour bombers, flaming doctors) the attack was foiled by the terrorist himself. Joe Six Pack, as in London and Glasgow saved the terrorists life.
Al-Q are way past the "B" team, they're down near the "Z" team now.
I expect that all the Al-Q "franchise" operations (Al-Q in Iraq, Al-Q in the Maghreb and so on) are going to be looking for a new name soon.
I thought ROHS got rid of it all?
Maemo. On a n900.