As it is capable of running a terminal emulator and SSH, as well as running on devices with a physical keyboard, Android is suitable for the OP's needs. Java doesn't really figure into this.
Does anyone even use Creative's proprietary drivers on Linux? I just use whatever ALSA provides for my Audigy 4, and the sound quality and stability are top notch. Hardware mixing is a great plus over my built-in AC'97 POFS. Plus I can run 5.1 with a cheap set of speakers, rather than a set that costs twice as much just for the damned optical input.
As an end-user why can't I extend applications by simply dragging and dropping features from one application to another? i.e. Dragging a search box from one app to another.
This is pointless. The dev has to code the search feature into the app for it work, so let it be up to the dev whether or not a search box is appropriate. GTK provides standard widgets to keep the same look and feel between apps, not to replicate functionality.
(If you want a search box in list views, type '/'.)
I have 1000s of photographs. How can these images be automatically categorized and displayed most effectively without having to manually add meta-data. It should be sorting images by looking at similarities between pictures, date taken and other automatically generated information
Use Beagle or hack on Storage. Or write a 2-line bash script to sort images into different directories by date. Additionally, what's "similar" about two photos is a very complicated question. The orange blob in one photo could be an orange or a hot-air balloon.
In short, if you want to sort your 1,000s of pictures without tagging metadata regarding the contents of the pictures, you're out of luck. You can't sort based on non-existent information.
I have 1000s of mp3s. How can these songs be automatically categorized by mood, tempo, etc without manually entering in meta-data? Think of it as Pandora with your own music collection.
There are automatic tagging solutions out there, such as MusicBrainz clients. Unfortunately, it won't give you moods or tempos. You can detect tempos, which is going to be variable even within one song, and you can get moods from some community database. I doubt there are enough people willing to create a second MusicBrainz just to get mood information, however.
The most obvious [problem] is deciding which version of Linux to offer. There are more than 100 distros, and everybody seems to want a different one -- or the same one with a different desktop, or whatever. It costs Dell a small fortune to offer an operating system... so the lack of a standard is a real killer.
This is a non-point; what's the problem with Dell settling on one distribution, outsourcing the support to Novell/RH/etc? The power users will install their own distro anyway, and they can find/finance their own support.
I'd pay for an e-ink monitor. With no backlight, the Sony reader is super-easy on the eyes, and its font rendering looks sexy. I could use an LCD for movies.
X31 here and I concur. No problems with power management, nor any other piece of hardware on this machine. IBM/Lenovo rock w/ regards to Linux support.
Funny... My Via C3 1GHz machine uses ~15W peak. It loads an OpenBSD image from CompactFlash into RAM, and is fast enough to serve MP3s and torrents while remaining completely silent; that is, until the RAM cache fills up and flushes to an external disk. Not good for power outages, I know, but those aren't exactly frequent.
According to Al Gore, a rise of 1 degree at the equator would mean a rise in 12 degrees at the poles. So, it seems that yes, global warming would foster the creation of ozone closer the poles. However, I don't think anyone wants to see more ice shelf fall into the oceans and turning Europe into a giant ice cube.
You know what's awesome? AIGLX+Compiz, with all the shiny effects that outdo Aero Glass, works smoothly on my Thinkpad X31--with 16mb of video memory. There's absolutely no fucking way Vista would be usable with Glass enabled, and probably marginally so with it disabled.
In short, everyone with a laptop with 128mb dedicated memory is screwed on Vista w/ Aero, but in heaven on Linux with AIGLX. Props to the devs.
A cron job. Standard on everything but Windows, and googling for "cron for windows" reveals some good solutions on the first page.
A cool way to do this would be have an easily-accessible file, like ~/.backups, with a list of directories and files to handle. Make a script that reads this file and performs the actual copy. You could even do checks for file changes, and intelligently merge the data, or just use rsync to do everything for you. The cron job would just call this script.
Hey, whaddya know, rsync's available for windows too. This could be a useful solution for my parents.
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As it is capable of running a terminal emulator and SSH, as well as running on devices with a physical keyboard, Android is suitable for the OP's needs. Java doesn't really figure into this.
I believe this should answer your questions: http://www.ehow.com/list_6773348_braille-signage-requirements.html
That's an entirely realistic number when you consider the target audience for retail mainboards.
Well, hurry up then.
Data doesn't use contractions.
GP is a troll, or is grossly misinformed.
Bah. A sample size of one does not a statistic make.
Does anyone even use Creative's proprietary drivers on Linux? I just use whatever ALSA provides for my Audigy 4, and the sound quality and stability are top notch. Hardware mixing is a great plus over my built-in AC'97 POFS. Plus I can run 5.1 with a cheap set of speakers, rather than a set that costs twice as much just for the damned optical input.
This is pointless. The dev has to code the search feature into the app for it work, so let it be up to the dev whether or not a search box is appropriate. GTK provides standard widgets to keep the same look and feel between apps, not to replicate functionality.
(If you want a search box in list views, type '/'.)
I have 1000s of photographs. How can these images be automatically categorized and displayed most effectively without having to manually add meta-data. It should be sorting images by looking at similarities between pictures, date taken and other automatically generated informationUse Beagle or hack on Storage. Or write a 2-line bash script to sort images into different directories by date. Additionally, what's "similar" about two photos is a very complicated question. The orange blob in one photo could be an orange or a hot-air balloon.
In short, if you want to sort your 1,000s of pictures without tagging metadata regarding the contents of the pictures, you're out of luck. You can't sort based on non-existent information.
I have 1000s of mp3s. How can these songs be automatically categorized by mood, tempo, etc without manually entering in meta-data? Think of it as Pandora with your own music collection.There are automatic tagging solutions out there, such as MusicBrainz clients. Unfortunately, it won't give you moods or tempos. You can detect tempos, which is going to be variable even within one song, and you can get moods from some community database. I doubt there are enough people willing to create a second MusicBrainz just to get mood information, however.
Did it have an extra button for serializing to XML?
I'd pay for an e-ink monitor. With no backlight, the Sony reader is super-easy on the eyes, and its font rendering looks sexy. I could use an LCD for movies.
...they included some of these shortcomings. I was expecting a good read, which RMS is usually keen to offer.
Ouch! It had better come with a dongle, for I am compelled to pirate said software, if only to convey the ridiculousness of this pricing mismatch.
I wish I could mod you down for your usage of ACT!. Horrible, horrible software. So many better solutions exist.
Larry Niven wrote about the same in his short story "Grendel".
X31 here and I concur. No problems with power management, nor any other piece of hardware on this machine. IBM/Lenovo rock w/ regards to Linux support.
Funny... My Via C3 1GHz machine uses ~15W peak. It loads an OpenBSD image from CompactFlash into RAM, and is fast enough to serve MP3s and torrents while remaining completely silent; that is, until the RAM cache fills up and flushes to an external disk. Not good for power outages, I know, but those aren't exactly frequent.
Ouch.
Weird, I just played FFI for the first time, and I could read that perfectly.
According to Al Gore, a rise of 1 degree at the equator would mean a rise in 12 degrees at the poles. So, it seems that yes, global warming would foster the creation of ozone closer the poles. However, I don't think anyone wants to see more ice shelf fall into the oceans and turning Europe into a giant ice cube.
My third-grade math teacher is spinning in her grave.
In short, everyone with a laptop with 128mb dedicated memory is screwed on Vista w/ Aero, but in heaven on Linux with AIGLX. Props to the devs.
A cron job. Standard on everything but Windows, and googling for "cron for windows" reveals some good solutions on the first page. A cool way to do this would be have an easily-accessible file, like ~/.backups, with a list of directories and files to handle. Make a script that reads this file and performs the actual copy. You could even do checks for file changes, and intelligently merge the data, or just use rsync to do everything for you. The cron job would just call this script. Hey, whaddya know, rsync's available for windows too. This could be a useful solution for my parents.
You mispelled "documentaries". It's spelled "porn".