Software does begin to enslave when people depend on it. We as a species, depend on software heavily now and it will only increase in the future.
In other words: electricity isn't essential for your survival, but try living without it for few days. Software (and computing in general) is slowly getting to this point.
By default it does not... and the calculator is only one of more than a dozen additional functions (searching through mail, contact book, currency conversion to name a few)
The point I was trying to make is that it's there by default on KDE, I don't have to install any additional software
Because I don't have to stop and think if I'm at a Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 7 or Windows 2008 terminal. "Win, c, a, Enter" doesn't work on half of them.
Alt+F2 on KDE4 works basically like launchy. (with many additional features, like calculator). It's useful to the point that the only two F-keys on my keyboard that are shiny-smooth are F2 and F5.
I doubt that "most" look for "Firefox". Anyway, I'm sure that, in the very least, substantial minority looks for Firefox icon, not the words "Firefox".
Just because you're not left handed, doesn't mean that having ambidextrous mice is a bad design idea (or consumer choice).
I find adding stuff to registry or PATH so that I can just WinKey+R "calc" Enter, much faster than searching a gui list. And it works on every Windows since 95.
We're all humans, we make mistakes. There are innocent people put to prison and there are murderers on the loose. As long as it affects very small minority it's OK, we can't achieve perfection.
It's definitely positive, if only they will go and make such phones.
Just having top and powertop on my N900 allows me to identify battery-draining apps in minutes, unlike my friend with Android that wasted a week to do this. You don't have to write them in C. I'm sure python will be ported... QT is C++ only.
Microsoft tries to ridicule Linux: "It's just a cheap-phone OS". Wasn't MS already at the "fight"-stage?
In other news Nokia will keep on making decent phones that just keep on working. (Americans need not to share their opinions, your cellphone systems are just like NTSC)
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Only in US of America.
Because whole "climate science" has just as much science innit as finance: "I think this may work, so I'll publish my thoughts as indisputable fact."
If someone missed it, they don't do the "experiment" stage of real science.
I wonder what the source of the article is, that the driver will be proprietary.
IFAICR, Windows Driver Development Kit License requires a proprietary licence (or at least it did in the past)...
electron migration -- electrons moving metal atoms -- is a problem when your transistor consists of a dozen or so atoms...
I was able to run all past games on Linux, using Intel...
Software does begin to enslave when people depend on it. We as a species, depend on software heavily now and it will only increase in the future.
In other words: electricity isn't essential for your survival, but try living without it for few days. Software (and computing in general) is slowly getting to this point.
well, now they have higher utilization, so they are actually cheaper
That's enough of beancounter logic for today...
By default it does not... and the calculator is only one of more than a dozen additional functions (searching through mail, contact book, currency conversion to name a few)
The point I was trying to make is that it's there by default on KDE, I don't have to install any additional software
Because I don't have to stop and think if I'm at a Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 7 or Windows 2008 terminal. "Win, c, a, Enter" doesn't work on half of them.
Big pharma, run by governemnt
The last time I checked, it was the other way round...
So, you're suggesting that systems in medicine (monitors, MRI) or banking (ATMs) are "trifling bullshit"...
And those are the systems in which I see regular off-the-shelf software used...
Repeat after me: correlation does not mean causation, correlation does not mean causation...
At least we have XFCE and KDE in the Linux land.
There's only hope that KDE4 will be actually usable on windows some day...
Alt+F2 on KDE4 works basically like launchy. (with many additional features, like calculator). It's useful to the point that the only two F-keys on my keyboard that are shiny-smooth are F2 and F5.
I doubt that "most" look for "Firefox". Anyway, I'm sure that, in the very least, substantial minority looks for Firefox icon, not the words "Firefox".
Just because you're not left handed, doesn't mean that having ambidextrous mice is a bad design idea (or consumer choice).
I find adding stuff to registry or PATH so that I can just WinKey+R "calc" Enter, much faster than searching a gui list. And it works on every Windows since 95.
Unfortunately yes.
I'd like to point out that those are better specs than the N900 has...
We're all humans, we make mistakes. There are innocent people put to prison and there are murderers on the loose. As long as it affects very small minority it's OK, we can't achieve perfection.
Fellow slahdotters, we've got a real slider on our hands...
That's what probably went though some PHB (or Elop's, or Steve's) head. Either way, I'd say it's playing with fire.
It's definitely positive, if only they will go and make such phones.
Just having top and powertop on my N900 allows me to identify battery-draining apps in minutes, unlike my friend with Android that wasted a week to do this. You don't have to write them in C. I'm sure python will be ported... QT is C++ only.
Microsoft tries to ridicule Linux: "It's just a cheap-phone OS". Wasn't MS already at the "fight"-stage?
In other news Nokia will keep on making decent phones that just keep on working. (Americans need not to share their opinions, your cellphone systems are just like NTSC)
This only shows why it's infeasible, not that it's impossible.