I have an ultraportable laptop. I use the tablet more. When I feel like it, I can stow the keyboard and mouse and use the device as a pure tablet. Why are you so determined to tell me what I like and want?
No, you are wrong. My tablet works perfectly well with a keyboard and mouse. It is much lighter than any laptop and runs on battery far longer. The only real issue I have with it is, Android is quite brain damaged for non-media consumption needs because of lacking window decorations, spotty keyboard support and not supporting standard GUI apps. You can be sure this will all be fixed in time but right at the moment Google has its head shoved way too far up its ass to admit that tablets are actually computers and a lot of people want to use them that way.
... is the idea of load as few as possible libraries to run a KDE application in a non KDE environment.
No, that's not it. The purpose is to break useful functionality out of KDE and make it available to QT developers in general without requiring KDE itself. The benefit to KDE is, it prepares the ground for migration to QT 5, cleans things up, and enables the possibility of contributions to the framework components by non-KDE developers. Or in other words, whatever is good for QT it good for KDE.
All you said is that sometimes we don't have enough eyes on the code. You failed to substatiate your thesis that "many eyes" is a myth. This particular bug was discovered precisely because we got some new eyes looking at the code, buffed up with a dose of technological superpower. The X11 project has traditionally been a rather small project with significant barriers to entry like cvs commit access owned jealously by a small club. It's somewhat better after being pried loose from Open Group's stultifying domination, but its still a small project relative to its importance. More eyeballs are always better.
Nobody wants to spend $300 dollars on a console that ties up your $500 TV while your using it and buy a few $60 games on top of it, when you can just download a game on your phone that you already have and spend $4 on it.
Both of those things give entirely different experiences. There will be plenty of people who prefer casual games on a phone screen, there will be plenty who prefer high-resolution fancy graphics displayed on their big TV with a control system more flexible than a touch screen...
You're talking about the hard core basement couch potato gamer demographic, now busy raising kids and growing a fine crop of gray hair while being steadily replaced by the ADHD social gaming generation on phones and tablets. The trend is fairly clear.
Tech company main sequence: start as a brightly shining innovator, make too much money, get mired in politics, run out of ideas, run out of money, collapse into a dark, trollish corporate remnant. Blackberry has officially become the latest troll star.
this is a hardware patent, of a physical invention. Where blackberry deserves credit for their design
I would say that you are prejudging. The extent to which the look and feel of a keyboard can be protected by patent must be established by the courts. By the way, note: six keys on the bottom versus four.
The reason that spying on ally countries, especially mass spying of ordinary citizens of allies, should be frowned upon is because it makes it far too easy to arrange a reciprocal spying agreements where no agency breaks it's own countries laws but still gets all the juicy intel about it's own citizens.
Good point, put it's not just that. Breaking the laws of another country is still breaking laws.
Chromebooks would be a more serious threat to Wintel PCs than Android laptops, reason being that ChromeOS is a desktop OS, unlike Android, which would be like Windows 8 on a desktop. Just like Windows 8 is unsuitable for non touch PCs, so would Android. ChromeOS however is made w/ the desktop market in mind, so it would be the real alternative to Windows. And Google could always give it a Dalvik engine to run Android apps, if needed.
Running android apps would just turn Chromeos into Android with an awkward launcher. Next step: make the browser front end optional, then it is Android. In reality it is all Linux, we are just quibbling over what kind of skin is best.
Have you tried Android with a keyboard and mouse? It works well, the obvious deficiency is no window manipulation, which will obviously be added if the Android notebook segment starts bringing in serious revenue and customers start complaining about it. Chromeos assumes that users are happy with a device that is largely useless when not connected to the internet and that makes every application feel like a web page. That leaves me out, I don't know about you. Android is also flawed in terms of running mainstream desktop applications, but the flaws are incrementally fixable without changing the entire paradigm. I don't care which constitutes a greater threat to Microsoft, what I care about is me being able to use this great hardware like a computer instead of a terminal.
Android is not like Windows 8 on a desktop because it brings hundreds of thousands of Android apps to the party, whereas Windows 8 turns its back on hundreds of thousands of Windows apps. Android is therefore a comfort zone while Windows 8 is a discomfort zone.
Not much stands between Android as it is and a traditional windowing UI, it just needs a way to drag and resize windows and more consistent keyboard support. When customer demand convinces Googlers this is worth doing it will be done, or Googlers are idiots which is also a possibility.
Wow, does some Googler with mod points actually think that no dangerous wankers work at Google as managers? Let alone doing evil by modding (-1, disagree).
Asus is once again making Eee's, the 1015 model ships with either Windows or Ubuntu. So assuming Wikipedia is correct Asus indeed did not get the 'memo' from MS...
Nice. I'm sure Asus got the memo, but the balance of power has shifted. Now, when Microsoft threatens an OEM they are likely to discover that the main effect is to accelerate plans to build up the profitable Android/tablet side of the business. Another thing that happens is, an OEM will introduce a Linux product around Windows license negotiation time as a bargaining point and the Linux product will disappear soon after.
I tested my Nexus 7 with a BlueTooth mouse and it at least worked. So, the OS already has mouse support and I presume keyboard support.
Of course it works, pointer input and bluetooth mouse drivers are stock Linux kernel infrastructure so Android devs had very little work to do, just feed mouse events into the same stream as touchscreen events. Keyboard support works well as you might expect except that some apps and infrastructure don't handle some common keyboard events (e.g., arrow keys) so gratuitous clicks or taps are sometimes needed, which can be irritating. Rather amateurish lack of interface consistency if you ask me.
I always chuckle when someone tries to claim that Android being open source is somehow a problem. It's worked out well for Google...
You're putting words in my mouth. It's not me who thinks Android open source is a problem that needs to be solved, it's certain elements of Google management. Dangerous wankers obviously but what's new.
Don't forget that Google may capriciously deny you access to your online data and services any time it chooses and for whatever reason or no reason, and you have no recourse.
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Argument by analogy. Wow, you are slipping.
I consider any tablet without USB deficient. But of course I don't use a USB mouse, I use bluetooth.
I have an ultraportable laptop. I use the tablet more. When I feel like it, I can stow the keyboard and mouse and use the device as a pure tablet. Why are you so determined to tell me what I like and want?
No, you are wrong. My tablet works perfectly well with a keyboard and mouse. It is much lighter than any laptop and runs on battery far longer. The only real issue I have with it is, Android is quite brain damaged for non-media consumption needs because of lacking window decorations, spotty keyboard support and not supporting standard GUI apps. You can be sure this will all be fixed in time but right at the moment Google has its head shoved way too far up its ass to admit that tablets are actually computers and a lot of people want to use them that way.
I just don't understand why anyone would want to use a mouse with a tablet.
So you don't get the screen all disgusting and greasy. And faster because your hands don't need to move as far. Also it's more precise than touching.
... is the idea of load as few as possible libraries to run a KDE application in a non KDE environment.
No, that's not it. The purpose is to break useful functionality out of KDE and make it available to QT developers in general without requiring KDE itself. The benefit to KDE is, it prepares the ground for migration to QT 5, cleans things up, and enables the possibility of contributions to the framework components by non-KDE developers. Or in other words, whatever is good for QT it good for KDE.
Argh! My eyes!
All you said is that sometimes we don't have enough eyes on the code. You failed to substatiate your thesis that "many eyes" is a myth. This particular bug was discovered precisely because we got some new eyes looking at the code, buffed up with a dose of technological superpower. The X11 project has traditionally been a rather small project with significant barriers to entry like cvs commit access owned jealously by a small club. It's somewhat better after being pried loose from Open Group's stultifying domination, but its still a small project relative to its importance. More eyeballs are always better.
Nobody wants to spend $300 dollars on a console that ties up your $500 TV while your using it and buy a few $60 games on top of it, when you can just download a game on your phone that you already have and spend $4 on it.
Both of those things give entirely different experiences. There will be plenty of people who prefer casual games on a phone screen, there will be plenty who prefer high-resolution fancy graphics displayed on their big TV with a control system more flexible than a touch screen...
You're talking about the hard core basement couch potato gamer demographic, now busy raising kids and growing a fine crop of gray hair while being steadily replaced by the ADHD social gaming generation on phones and tablets. The trend is fairly clear.
Tech company main sequence: start as a brightly shining innovator, make too much money, get mired in politics, run out of ideas, run out of money, collapse into a dark, trollish corporate remnant. Blackberry has officially become the latest troll star.
this is a hardware patent, of a physical invention. Where blackberry deserves credit for their design
I would say that you are prejudging. The extent to which the look and feel of a keyboard can be protected by patent must be established by the courts. By the way, note: six keys on the bottom versus four.
The head of the Windows division got fired shortly after Win8 shipped, and the whole company seems to be treading water while the board hunts for a
I've got my fingers crossed hoping they pick Elop. The one guy who could top Ballmer, you know.
The reason that spying on ally countries, especially mass spying of ordinary citizens of allies, should be frowned upon is because it makes it far too easy to arrange a reciprocal spying agreements where no agency breaks it's own countries laws but still gets all the juicy intel about it's own citizens.
Good point, put it's not just that. Breaking the laws of another country is still breaking laws.
"I think there's an English word that describes violation of the 4th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and I do think it's treason"
Sounds good, but that's incorrect. Treason is [a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation].
Chromebooks would be a more serious threat to Wintel PCs than Android laptops, reason being that ChromeOS is a desktop OS, unlike Android, which would be like Windows 8 on a desktop. Just like Windows 8 is unsuitable for non touch PCs, so would Android. ChromeOS however is made w/ the desktop market in mind, so it would be the real alternative to Windows. And Google could always give it a Dalvik engine to run Android apps, if needed.
Running android apps would just turn Chromeos into Android with an awkward launcher. Next step: make the browser front end optional, then it is Android. In reality it is all Linux, we are just quibbling over what kind of skin is best.
Have you tried Android with a keyboard and mouse? It works well, the obvious deficiency is no window manipulation, which will obviously be added if the Android notebook segment starts bringing in serious revenue and customers start complaining about it. Chromeos assumes that users are happy with a device that is largely useless when not connected to the internet and that makes every application feel like a web page. That leaves me out, I don't know about you. Android is also flawed in terms of running mainstream desktop applications, but the flaws are incrementally fixable without changing the entire paradigm. I don't care which constitutes a greater threat to Microsoft, what I care about is me being able to use this great hardware like a computer instead of a terminal.
Android is not like Windows 8 on a desktop because it brings hundreds of thousands of Android apps to the party, whereas Windows 8 turns its back on hundreds of thousands of Windows apps. Android is therefore a comfort zone while Windows 8 is a discomfort zone.
Now Android laptops are starting to show up.
I haven't seen them but again, a phone OS is a poor fit for a computer.
Android laptop.
Not much stands between Android as it is and a traditional windowing UI, it just needs a way to drag and resize windows and more consistent keyboard support. When customer demand convinces Googlers this is worth doing it will be done, or Googlers are idiots which is also a possibility.
Wow, does some Googler with mod points actually think that no dangerous wankers work at Google as managers? Let alone doing evil by modding (-1, disagree).
Young vapid adults mostly.
Asus is once again making Eee's, the 1015 model ships with either Windows or Ubuntu. So assuming Wikipedia is correct Asus indeed did not get the 'memo' from MS...
Nice. I'm sure Asus got the memo, but the balance of power has shifted. Now, when Microsoft threatens an OEM they are likely to discover that the main effect is to accelerate plans to build up the profitable Android/tablet side of the business. Another thing that happens is, an OEM will introduce a Linux product around Windows license negotiation time as a bargaining point and the Linux product will disappear soon after.
I tested my Nexus 7 with a BlueTooth mouse and it at least worked. So, the OS already has mouse support and I presume keyboard support.
Of course it works, pointer input and bluetooth mouse drivers are stock Linux kernel infrastructure so Android devs had very little work to do, just feed mouse events into the same stream as touchscreen events. Keyboard support works well as you might expect except that some apps and infrastructure don't handle some common keyboard events (e.g., arrow keys) so gratuitous clicks or taps are sometimes needed, which can be irritating. Rather amateurish lack of interface consistency if you ask me.
I always chuckle when someone tries to claim that Android being open source is somehow a problem. It's worked out well for Google...
You're putting words in my mouth. It's not me who thinks Android open source is a problem that needs to be solved, it's certain elements of Google management. Dangerous wankers obviously but what's new.
Gosh I guess major vendors like Asus didn't get the memo, lol. They've been shipping Eee PCs with their own weird dedicated Linux distro for years
In January 2013, Asus officially ended production of their Eee PC series
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I got an IRC client running on one desktop and a browser on another and I haven't notice a change in IQ when switching desktop.
Easy, when you switch to the browser you also switch to your browser persona, which is too stupid to notice the IQ drop.
google FOCRES people to use real names?
They tried and failed. They will regroup, dream up some more effective technical means of cohersion and try again.
Don't forget that Google may capriciously deny you access to your online data and services any time it chooses and for whatever reason or no reason, and you have no recourse.