Physical Keyboard. The screen is superb, the swipe interface is the foundation of so many new mobile user interfaces, and have good memory/cpu/base OS. But the keyboard... thats what i miss from the N900, the one it have is not bad for being a touchscreen one, and you have a pretty translucent one for console in Fingerterm, but still not there. Too bad the N950 was just for (few) devels.
Anyway, could have a future, Nitdroid enables to dual boot with Android (or run natively a few android games with Apkenv), and probably will be available for it Firefox OS, Sailfish and Ubuntu mobile.
is called HTML5. A lot of the stack can be found and used elsewhere (i.e. Apache Cordova) and shared by a lot of mobile OSs (webos, tizen, bada, sailfish, mer, and probably others, and more important, could be installed in the other platforms, including desktop.
Maybe by then desktop will lose its meaning or be irrelevant, but many signals are pointing in the direction that in a not so far future will finally reach the year of Linux in the desktop. Is already the main OS for servers, supercomputers, mobile, computing devices in general (those last 2 mainly because Android), and not sure about embedded. And Chromebooks, Steam and Windows 8, among other factors, will be giving it a nice push this year.
The next debate probably will be that what is in the desktop (over the linux kernel) won't be a "traditional" linux desktop, KDE/Gnome and others will still be around, but the mainly used user interface/programs could be something not so native like android or html5 apps, but being Linux probably will be options to use what you prefer.
Good keyboard/support (there are more than a few convertibles that could do the work), ready to install another OS (webos, plasma active, ubuntu, mer or a few others are not explored enough alternatives), open in general (no secret sauce to do your own drivers or write your own code to work with the hardware), "good" hardware in general (long battery life, big capacity, expandable, good screen and camera), and cheap. If is for asking, why not everything?
Today those same founders would be set up to make them look as terrorists, probably with the help of the FBI. would be far easier than what was done with OWS or Wikileaks. And would be faster if they could be attributed with something that could be seen as a weapon of mass destruction (i.e. one of them sneezing in public)
So if Windows 8/Surface/WinPhone8 don't sell this december as much as Microsoft predicted, would be a 2013 flop? Or we will have to wait till 2020 to list them in the flops of the decade?
Apparently one government is snooping the private communications of all countries, promoting revolutions in several and disabling energy plants of at least one. Motives more than enough to declare to be in a (cyber)war.
Wrong and right are subjective evaluations. Before jumping into the "That is wrong" waters, be aware that you could be considering right, or at least normal, something very similar. This is the core behind all those (mine included) root comments.
Now, if we forget that in US do basically that with their citizens, and tries very hard to push it to all the world (in fact, still have some laws that protect their own citizens, but care less than nothing about the rights of the rest of the world people), yes, i think it is wrong, it goes against the potential of internet as disruptive force, not specifically for the government of China but for the current world order, in a (hopely) good way, against the human rights (not sure if the rights of their citizens if they are the ones defining them), and is obviously being abused by a sector of the ones that are in power. But probably that comment could be applied to a lot of governments, not just China.
Not so different from what Facebook do, or in general what Google reports that is forced to do, ordered by the ones actually in power (mostly the ones reported here)
Mars? Asteroids? ISS 2.0? a future space factory/hotel/other kind of building? and of course the ubiquitous "where no man has gone before" (that it be labeled The Next Generation somehow hints that destination)
If you have to do things between computers in your local network (transfer a file, or execute a process, or whatever), doing it using an unencrypted protocol means that any computer doing sniffing in that network could get both content and access. And a trojan in the desktop of the clueless/weakest link on your network could give from inside access to people from outside.
Don't feel safe because not explicit access from outside, whats inside matters too.
Locks and fences are passive defenses. Armed polices are supposed to be trained, evaluated, controlled, and are on duty (so should not be drunk or in drugs), if have to decide to do something harmful to someone else. Are the ones that have weapon permissions checked and periodically evaluated to enable them to keep using weapons? Could you isolate some moment in your life that you could had killed someone (or a lot of people) if just had a weapon right then? What about not so normal, not so stable, or not so sober people?
Heck, should have driving permission (and driving in populated areas) drunk people? Want to give a weapon to that people too?
Picture books should be a complement too. For me (as someone that don't know a bit about child education, or psychology) the greater impact should come when integrating information from different senses, specially if that information is rich and consistent. Anyway, matters the question of educating for what. For books? for computers? for interacting with real life objects? That could give weight to one option over the others.
Change the question for "What a baby should be learning at that age?". A learning device with no texture, fake 3d, no smell, taste, heat, or any other input for senses other than sight and hearing maybe could be harmful for his development. Human and nature contact, toys that estimulate his senses (if possible, several, something with more texture than just plastic), a pet, music. A tablet (i.e. very simple games like ant smasher) could be a complement, but not a substitute.
Taking something from you so you don't have it anymore is stealing. Saying that an idea is only yours and that noone else in the world can't have it is mankind-level stealing.
Probably a factor that make them to be of lightweight materials are lifting it from Earth surface. Building it in orbit could take out (or at least, not be so critical) that factor.
Mass hysteria no matter how much NASA explain how failsafe it will be. You know how well they did dispelling the recent mayan apocalypse. The human factor is always the weakest link.
You know how much government and private sector money you could had got if you tried to do a "white lie" like saying that it could hit, and even could be a planet killer? Everyone would want to have a working colony in mars or self-sustaining orbital colonies by 2020, if not before. It could had been a lie for the greater good.
Those companies have a big share of responsability on that process, but probably what made walled garden to look like a good idea was mainly spam. You couldnt give access to everyone because some of those everyone would be spambots.
So there, you may not put in jail them as may not be laws against unsolicited mail, but you can process them for murdering (or at least, badly poisoning) the open internet.
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Physical Keyboard. The screen is superb, the swipe interface is the foundation of so many new mobile user interfaces, and have good memory/cpu/base OS. But the keyboard... thats what i miss from the N900, the one it have is not bad for being a touchscreen one, and you have a pretty translucent one for console in Fingerterm, but still not there. Too bad the N950 was just for (few) devels.
Anyway, could have a future, Nitdroid enables to dual boot with Android (or run natively a few android games with Apkenv), and probably will be available for it Firefox OS, Sailfish and Ubuntu mobile.
is called HTML5. A lot of the stack can be found and used elsewhere (i.e. Apache Cordova) and shared by a lot of mobile OSs (webos, tizen, bada, sailfish, mer, and probably others, and more important, could be installed in the other platforms, including desktop.
Maybe by then desktop will lose its meaning or be irrelevant, but many signals are pointing in the direction that in a not so far future will finally reach the year of Linux in the desktop. Is already the main OS for servers, supercomputers, mobile, computing devices in general (those last 2 mainly because Android), and not sure about embedded. And Chromebooks, Steam and Windows 8, among other factors, will be giving it a nice push this year.
The next debate probably will be that what is in the desktop (over the linux kernel) won't be a "traditional" linux desktop, KDE/Gnome and others will still be around, but the mainly used user interface/programs could be something not so native like android or html5 apps, but being Linux probably will be options to use what you prefer.
Good keyboard/support (there are more than a few convertibles that could do the work), ready to install another OS (webos, plasma active, ubuntu, mer or a few others are not explored enough alternatives), open in general (no secret sauce to do your own drivers or write your own code to work with the hardware), "good" hardware in general (long battery life, big capacity, expandable, good screen and camera), and cheap. If is for asking, why not everything?
Today those same founders would be set up to make them look as terrorists, probably with the help of the FBI. would be far easier than what was done with OWS or Wikileaks. And would be faster if they could be attributed with something that could be seen as a weapon of mass destruction (i.e. one of them sneezing in public)
So if Windows 8/Surface/WinPhone8 don't sell this december as much as Microsoft predicted, would be a 2013 flop? Or we will have to wait till 2020 to list them in the flops of the decade?
If global warming is bringing more extreme weather, probably that record will get defeated next year, either in southern summer or northern one.
Apparently one government is snooping the private communications of all countries, promoting revolutions in several and disabling energy plants of at least one. Motives more than enough to declare to be in a (cyber)war.
Wrong and right are subjective evaluations. Before jumping into the "That is wrong" waters, be aware that you could be considering right, or at least normal, something very similar. This is the core behind all those (mine included) root comments.
Now, if we forget that in US do basically that with their citizens, and tries very hard to push it to all the world (in fact, still have some laws that protect their own citizens, but care less than nothing about the rights of the rest of the world people), yes, i think it is wrong, it goes against the potential of internet as disruptive force, not specifically for the government of China but for the current world order, in a (hopely) good way, against the human rights (not sure if the rights of their citizens if they are the ones defining them), and is obviously being abused by a sector of the ones that are in power. But probably that comment could be applied to a lot of governments, not just China.
Not so different from what Facebook do, or in general what Google reports that is forced to do, ordered by the ones actually in power (mostly the ones reported here)
Mars? Asteroids? ISS 2.0? a future space factory/hotel/other kind of building? and of course the ubiquitous "where no man has gone before" (that it be labeled The Next Generation somehow hints that destination)
In Soviet Russia, Moon comes to YOU. Prepare for the impact.
If you have to do things between computers in your local network (transfer a file, or execute a process, or whatever), doing it using an unencrypted protocol means that any computer doing sniffing in that network could get both content and access. And a trojan in the desktop of the clueless/weakest link on your network could give from inside access to people from outside.
Don't feel safe because not explicit access from outside, whats inside matters too.
Locks and fences are passive defenses. Armed polices are supposed to be trained, evaluated, controlled, and are on duty (so should not be drunk or in drugs), if have to decide to do something harmful to someone else. Are the ones that have weapon permissions checked and periodically evaluated to enable them to keep using weapons? Could you isolate some moment in your life that you could had killed someone (or a lot of people) if just had a weapon right then? What about not so normal, not so stable, or not so sober people?
Heck, should have driving permission (and driving in populated areas) drunk people? Want to give a weapon to that people too?
Picture books should be a complement too. For me (as someone that don't know a bit about child education, or psychology) the greater impact should come when integrating information from different senses, specially if that information is rich and consistent. Anyway, matters the question of educating for what. For books? for computers? for interacting with real life objects? That could give weight to one option over the others.
Change the question for "What a baby should be learning at that age?". A learning device with no texture, fake 3d, no smell, taste, heat, or any other input for senses other than sight and hearing maybe could be harmful for his development. Human and nature contact, toys that estimulate his senses (if possible, several, something with more texture than just plastic), a pet, music. A tablet (i.e. very simple games like ant smasher) could be a complement, but not a substitute.
Taking something from you so you don't have it anymore is stealing. Saying that an idea is only yours and that noone else in the world can't have it is mankind-level stealing.
So the point is to have guns, else you are next to stealing, or even deserve to? When culture moved to that point, it is already hopeless.
the irony of being attacked/impacted by something we decided to put in a trojan point will be fatal.
Probably a factor that make them to be of lightweight materials are lifting it from Earth surface. Building it in orbit could take out (or at least, not be so critical) that factor.
Mass hysteria no matter how much NASA explain how failsafe it will be. You know how well they did dispelling the recent mayan apocalypse. The human factor is always the weakest link.
This is not about climate, is about temper. The measurement was done in the base now known as Angry Byrd.
You know how much government and private sector money you could had got if you tried to do a "white lie" like saying that it could hit, and even could be a planet killer? Everyone would want to have a working colony in mars or self-sustaining orbital colonies by 2020, if not before. It could had been a lie for the greater good.
It wasn't so hard to ban free speech. Now even talking about an FPS match will land you in jail.
Those companies have a big share of responsability on that process, but probably what made walled garden to look like a good idea was mainly spam. You couldnt give access to everyone because some of those everyone would be spambots.
So there, you may not put in jail them as may not be laws against unsolicited mail, but you can process them for murdering (or at least, badly poisoning) the open internet.