Sometimes you have a command, an app, something, that makes things trivial or are already installed and are easy to use instead of installing a complex heavy app to do that. With a good amount of pipes and installed by default command line software you can do complex processing in a lot of data, or do a somewhat trivial python/perl script for that, But sometimes you don't know exactly what, or learning how to do it would take more time than the "non optimal" way. The priority is to solve problems, if takes too long to learn how to do it in the "right" way you first must solve it. And then learn how to do it right for the next time
2011 should be the year of the Netvertible. There are several already, but if they get thinner, lighter, and with better battery life could be a good middle ground between netbooks and tablets.
Won't be as far as totally abolishing copyrights and patents. Is ok that you have some rights over your creation. But have claims that have a meaning in actual reality, specially the technological one, they can be positive for you and for the rest of the humanity. If digital media of any is freely transfered over the net, then let it be that way and take advantage that it is happening, not just declare that the eath must be flat because you say so.
Considering that they are talking there about ~20 millon years, could be as dramatic as the slow, gradual, taking millon years appearence of a new ocean in the middle of africa. Could eventually lead to a different world? probably. But could lead to catastrophic events per se, in the next i.e. 10000 years ? Don't think so... well, unless the supervolcano there decides to explode pretty soon, and that have any chance to make things even worse.
https is a spy tool too? If i go with https to gmail, and post anything, unless they have a keylogger or something similar in whatever im using to access it, functionally are in the same situation.
Worse, what about crypto tech? Tor?
Make web designers believe that, no more "interpreters" like flash or silverlight on web, and that its time to move to html5 when possible. Sometimes doing wrong math you get the right result.
Not just videos (and ads) are being done in flash, but also navigation. a lot of textual, graphic and specially interactive content, and games. And worthless animations too.
Will be very happy if/when the web gets free of the need of flash for using it. While then, having no flash at all mean a good percent of the web sites out of reach.
Less than 10 could be seen as "few" compared with the amount of android phones or devices out there. And resistive touchscreen could be seen as something negative or positive. Its very responsive, and enable things that capacitive ones can't, so is up to your preferences and way of using of those devices, some could use to have finer grained input (you can write like in paper, even sign with a stylus), or being sensitive to different grades of pressure and being able to do things like this one.
But i agree that Maemo could be more mature than meego, but couldn't say how much it matters till it gets finally released.
Don't forget that you had Froyo as alternate OS for the N900 before it was available officially for any Android phone (even before the Nexus One). Still no full functionality because the parts that Nokia didn't opened on it, but is actively being worked for fixing that. Nitdroid was a different android fork, and was targetted to one smartphone only (and the N8x0 tablets).
There are a few newer Android phones with better hardware specs, but still the N900 is an impressive piece of hardware, and Maemo is nothing to be ashamed of. And you should add to its Multi OS powers Garnet VM (palm), a bunch of console emulators (from zx spectrum to nintendo 64), and the upcoming Meego.
Is bad press to be the big guy bullying the small one. But that don't mean that the big guy loves him, or that "pay" a slightly smaller guy (i.e. Oracle?) to do the dirty job.
For how many days last "any more"? would ask for how many hours, but is already late today. They are just warming up to strike twice as harder next time.
In my case, my desktop is safer than my PC. Even if i run linux in both (Ubuntu in my desktop, Maemo in my N900) the difference is more regarding physical security than logical one.
The average junkyard in earth surface using a relatively few square meters have far more junk than that, and we are talking here of something of orders bigger than the entire earth surface, probably in an area of the size of a medium country you get one piece of more than 10 cm. The article puts it as something packed with junk. Ok, they aren't static, they orbit, and usually at big speeds (several times faster than a bullet), and is a problem with only increases with time, is not something to discard too easily, but still the warning seem a bit exaggerated.
Not sure if mining the asteroids will have an economical impact down here on earth. But what should be explored there is what we can do. Can we live there? Can we make self-sustained enough stations with materials found there? What about new ships or propulsing fuel? Good part of the cost and ecological impact of space exploration is actually getting into space, leaving planet gravity well. But if most of the needed resources are already out and we can have enough people there in a semi permanent basis, we can start thinking in more advanced space exploration and colonization, maybe getting cheap enough resources (think for what was used the space station in the movie Moon). Of course that are several practical problems, but could we solve them?
Picard was the good guy until got assimilated by the Borg. And Microsoft is even worse than the Borg, there is no easy way out, even if you quit the evilness remains.
We have only 5 years till Doc comes to get the tech to upgrade Deloreans to make them able to fly. Doing the practice in Humvees won't translate too well for a car that different, and things will get worse if we are too busy doing this to be able to develop MrFusion. Believe me, you don't want to create time paradoxes.
Don't jump to my throat, vinyl is not dead, but is somewhat terminally ill. Can't they press a dvd or something more future proof with your ashes instead, while keeping the part of containing media about you?
The problem is if the rules of the universe dont enable us to get there in any practical way. That feeling and motivation could turn into something very negative, and against us (heck, could be a great poster from Despair Inc, a nice blue planet picture with something like "Humanity never will get even close to it")
The Nokia N900 have it from months ago, even before Android (Froyo?) devices that i think support it already too. And if the alternative to webm videos in youtube are flash ones, probably in Apple they will try to support WebM.
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Sometimes you have a command, an app, something, that makes things trivial or are already installed and are easy to use instead of installing a complex heavy app to do that. With a good amount of pipes and installed by default command line software you can do complex processing in a lot of data, or do a somewhat trivial python/perl script for that, But sometimes you don't know exactly what, or learning how to do it would take more time than the "non optimal" way. The priority is to solve problems, if takes too long to learn how to do it in the "right" way you first must solve it. And then learn how to do it right for the next time
2011 should be the year of the Netvertible. There are several already, but if they get thinner, lighter, and with better battery life could be a good middle ground between netbooks and tablets.
- Pinky, you are pondering what i'm pondering?
- I think so UK Music... but do i really need to buy?
Won't be as far as totally abolishing copyrights and patents. Is ok that you have some rights over your creation. But have claims that have a meaning in actual reality, specially the technological one, they can be positive for you and for the rest of the humanity. If digital media of any is freely transfered over the net, then let it be that way and take advantage that it is happening, not just declare that the eath must be flat because you say so.
I still remember the discussions on how much 3D was Wolf3D almost 20 years ago.
Considering that they are talking there about ~20 millon years, could be as dramatic as the slow, gradual, taking millon years appearence of a new ocean in the middle of africa. Could eventually lead to a different world? probably. But could lead to catastrophic events per se, in the next i.e. 10000 years ? Don't think so... well, unless the supervolcano there decides to explode pretty soon, and that have any chance to make things even worse.
https is a spy tool too? If i go with https to gmail, and post anything, unless they have a keylogger or something similar in whatever im using to access it, functionally are in the same situation. Worse, what about crypto tech? Tor?
...lots of water, and then shake it.
Make web designers believe that, no more "interpreters" like flash or silverlight on web, and that its time to move to html5 when possible. Sometimes doing wrong math you get the right result.
Not just videos (and ads) are being done in flash, but also navigation. a lot of textual, graphic and specially interactive content, and games. And worthless animations too. Will be very happy if/when the web gets free of the need of flash for using it. While then, having no flash at all mean a good percent of the web sites out of reach.
Jumping to conclusion is the only excercise that Slashdot readers perform frequently. This kind of summaries are that way for our own health.
But i agree that Maemo could be more mature than meego, but couldn't say how much it matters till it gets finally released.
Don't forget that you had Froyo as alternate OS for the N900 before it was available officially for any Android phone (even before the Nexus One). Still no full functionality because the parts that Nokia didn't opened on it, but is actively being worked for fixing that. Nitdroid was a different android fork, and was targetted to one smartphone only (and the N8x0 tablets).
There are a few newer Android phones with better hardware specs, but still the N900 is an impressive piece of hardware, and Maemo is nothing to be ashamed of. And you should add to its Multi OS powers Garnet VM (palm), a bunch of console emulators (from zx spectrum to nintendo 64), and the upcoming Meego.
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Is bad press to be the big guy bullying the small one. But that don't mean that the big guy loves him, or that "pay" a slightly smaller guy (i.e. Oracle?) to do the dirty job.
For how many days last "any more"? would ask for how many hours, but is already late today. They are just warming up to strike twice as harder next time.
In my case, my desktop is safer than my PC. Even if i run linux in both (Ubuntu in my desktop, Maemo in my N900) the difference is more regarding physical security than logical one.
The average junkyard in earth surface using a relatively few square meters have far more junk than that, and we are talking here of something of orders bigger than the entire earth surface, probably in an area of the size of a medium country you get one piece of more than 10 cm. The article puts it as something packed with junk. Ok, they aren't static, they orbit, and usually at big speeds (several times faster than a bullet), and is a problem with only increases with time, is not something to discard too easily, but still the warning seem a bit exaggerated.
This map have a clear message for all humanity: You need a bigger screen.
Not sure if mining the asteroids will have an economical impact down here on earth. But what should be explored there is what we can do. Can we live there? Can we make self-sustained enough stations with materials found there? What about new ships or propulsing fuel? Good part of the cost and ecological impact of space exploration is actually getting into space, leaving planet gravity well. But if most of the needed resources are already out and we can have enough people there in a semi permanent basis, we can start thinking in more advanced space exploration and colonization, maybe getting cheap enough resources (think for what was used the space station in the movie Moon). Of course that are several practical problems, but could we solve them?
Picard was the good guy until got assimilated by the Borg. And Microsoft is even worse than the Borg, there is no easy way out, even if you quit the evilness remains.
We have only 5 years till Doc comes to get the tech to upgrade Deloreans to make them able to fly. Doing the practice in Humvees won't translate too well for a car that different, and things will get worse if we are too busy doing this to be able to develop MrFusion. Believe me, you don't want to create time paradoxes.
Don't jump to my throat, vinyl is not dead, but is somewhat terminally ill. Can't they press a dvd or something more future proof with your ashes instead, while keeping the part of containing media about you?
The problem is if the rules of the universe dont enable us to get there in any practical way. That feeling and motivation could turn into something very negative, and against us (heck, could be a great poster from Despair Inc, a nice blue planet picture with something like "Humanity never will get even close to it")
The Nokia N900 have it from months ago, even before Android (Froyo?) devices that i think support it already too. And if the alternative to webm videos in youtube are flash ones, probably in Apple they will try to support WebM.
If the list goes on, probably the only credit for that company would end being Microsoft BSOD