Using wifi instead of bluetooth? The HID part of the BT stack is already in place in your Linux/Windows/OSX/Whatever system. So, no need for extra software. Maybe a USD 10.- USB dongle. Then you would use the touch screen of your phone as a trackpad. Or, if possible, the rear camera to understand how the phone is being moved on the desk. I would call this a nice Android application, not the pesky one shown in the above article!
The half of almost nothing is almost zero. How can you compare RIM messaging with, say, Google services? How can you compare RIM handsets with, say, Samsung or HTC ones?
Right one: "Which distro are you running? Why aren't you running KDE?" For example, a number of distros like (K)Ubuntu like the bleeding edge versions, often leaving the users with a bleeding desktop. While others prefer stabler KDE releases with less eyecandy and more stability.
Then in general I do am running KDE, v4.8.3 now that a large number of bugs have been fixed, partly due to the KDE itself, a partly to the patched/packaged version available in (K)Ubuntu. If you asked me the same 6 to 9 months ago, I would have answered "I am running XFCE because GNOME is clumsy and KDE is unstable to my needs".
But this is also a religion-related question, so beware!
The phones are quite handy, but too small for real mobile usage (apart the calling stuff). This idea looks quite interesting as it'd add to a smart phone just what's missing for real usage. But I see two major cons: 1. That thing would drain the phone battery very fast, whatever technology it will use for the display. 2. There's still the "other way around": use the smartphone to add a netbook/notebook what's missing (the connectivity) which is already widely available via bluetooth and/or USB.
I personally don't see the tablets a real mobile killer application: they're too large to be handy, there's still no keyboard (unless you have to type a 140 characters message), adding an external keyboard will bring the same weight as a netbook, with less features an power.
First of all, the 14C measurements and related considerations could be simply flawed. It would not be the first time. Second, the fact that the primary natural source of carbon-14 on Earth is cosmic ray action upon nitrogen in the atmosphere doesn't mean it's been a super nova for sure. That could also be due to abnormal solar activity (this is said in the article) which could easily go unobserved by civilizations that don't have the proper technology. Third, astronomical records at that era were relatively scarce and quite imprecise too. Fourth, the article talks about northern emisphere... which would require a rather large number of samples to be studied and collected from a wide spread area (the whole northern emishere). I wonder how many (precious) samples of wood can be retrieved intact from 1200 years in the past to be literally burnt in order to measured the 14C. Fifth, you can also have a not-so-strong abnormal solar activity just lasting months or even quarters to produce the same amount of 14C.
But all these could be as flawed as the original considerations...
Why an iPhone and not any smartphone or any other similar device? What can an iPhone do any other smart phone cannot? I think this is just marketing fluff. You want to attract interest in a project? Just add an iPhone/iPad/iWhatever! Then possibly put the data in the cloud and a spray some 3D multimedia and ubiquitous stuff all over! Ah!
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Slashdot has been designed to evolve in such a mess, anyway.
to know why on earth you would
place the devices or component parts within a domestic microwave.
Unless you live by eating well-done devices!
Using wifi instead of bluetooth?
The HID part of the BT stack is already in place in your Linux/Windows/OSX/Whatever system. So, no need for extra software. Maybe a USD 10.- USB dongle.
Then you would use the touch screen of your phone as a trackpad. Or, if possible, the rear camera to understand how the phone is being moved on the desk.
I would call this a nice Android application, not the pesky one shown in the above article!
I wonder about those two almost insignificant characteristics and related health azards.
Any idea?
to the whole world!
The half of almost nothing is almost zero.
How can you compare RIM messaging with, say, Google services?
How can you compare RIM handsets with, say, Samsung or HTC ones?
I want to boot whatever software I want, not what you gracely will allow me.
Hardware is MINE, not yours!
Why don't they co-locate the trading server in the same server room?
Or maybe in the same rack with the same switch?
... while I do!
You are likely not using KDE because you don't dare to use Linux on your main/more recent machine.
Right one: "Which distro are you running? Why aren't you running KDE?"
For example, a number of distros like (K)Ubuntu like the bleeding edge versions, often leaving the users with a bleeding desktop.
While others prefer stabler KDE releases with less eyecandy and more stability.
Then in general I do am running KDE, v4.8.3 now that a large number of bugs have been fixed, partly due to the KDE itself, a partly to the patched/packaged version available in (K)Ubuntu.
If you asked me the same 6 to 9 months ago, I would have answered "I am running XFCE because GNOME is clumsy and KDE is unstable to my needs".
But this is also a religion-related question, so beware!
whether there's still an ongoing debate about "emacs vs vi".
The phones are quite handy, but too small for real mobile usage (apart the calling stuff).
This idea looks quite interesting as it'd add to a smart phone just what's missing for real usage.
But I see two major cons:
1. That thing would drain the phone battery very fast, whatever technology it will use for the display.
2. There's still the "other way around": use the smartphone to add a netbook/notebook what's missing (the connectivity) which is already widely available via bluetooth and/or USB.
I personally don't see the tablets a real mobile killer application: they're too large to be handy, there's still no keyboard (unless you have to type a 140 characters message), adding an external keyboard will bring the same weight as a netbook, with less features an power.
So I'd say: let's see how it goes!
... and, most important thing, OpenStack is NEITHER an operating system, NOR a kernel.
And Linux has not been the new television!
Just like Linux has been the new DOS.
No way to compare pears and beans.
Run OpenWRT on your router, then.
No observer, no observation, no reality. Sorry.
Is like playing the Russian roulette game. With plutonium bullets. Close to a fuel tank.
Yes, we'll all loose money much faster!
Sorry mr. An Onymous Coward, I don't have any mod points to bring you to "+5 insightful".
Please, complain to mr. Slash Dot.
2 trees in Japan != the whole northern emisphere!
I fear!
Dreadful!
Nonetheless I'd like to do the same to mr. Bart!
It's not, but it's rather difficult it can spawn fresh new 14C atoms in those required amounts.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it still makes a sound.
Are you really really sure?
First of all, the 14C measurements and related considerations could be simply flawed. It would not be the first time. ... which would require a rather large number of samples to be studied and collected from a wide spread area (the whole northern emishere). I wonder how many (precious) samples of wood can be retrieved intact from 1200 years in the past to be literally burnt in order to measured the 14C.
Second, the fact that the primary natural source of carbon-14 on Earth is cosmic ray action upon nitrogen in the atmosphere doesn't mean it's been a super nova for sure. That could also be due to abnormal solar activity (this is said in the article) which could easily go unobserved by civilizations that don't have the proper technology.
Third, astronomical records at that era were relatively scarce and quite imprecise too.
Fourth, the article talks about northern emisphere
Fifth, you can also have a not-so-strong abnormal solar activity just lasting months or even quarters to produce the same amount of 14C.
But all these could be as flawed as the original considerations ...
Why an iPhone and not any smartphone or any other similar device?
What can an iPhone do any other smart phone cannot?
I think this is just marketing fluff.
You want to attract interest in a project? Just add an iPhone/iPad/iWhatever!
Then possibly put the data in the cloud and a spray some 3D multimedia and ubiquitous stuff all over!
Ah!