It sure seems like the only appeal of this device is that it runs linux. It adds no signifigant breadth of functionality to the handheld genre. The apps they have screenshots of look like standard (and a few substandard) palm os facilities.
I'm not an embedded systems sort of person, so there may be something terribly cool about mushing linux down into little devices, but why not use NetBSD? NetBSD is very portable, and I'd bet my socks there's one that runs on the dragonball. Linux (as far as I know [let's be honest, that isn't very far]) was designed to run on i386, wasn't it?
it's hard to make the trapezoidal ones look good on the bookshelf, though.
It's also probably pretty tough to have a consistent interface with such zaniness going on. Rectangular windows are a fundamental part of windowing systems; it's something that every GUI application developer can count on.
How is a window supposed to resize and rearrange its widgets when resized to bizarre shapes? Maintaining any sort of Human Interface standards would be impossible.
No advanced windowing system should be without circular windows.
I want a circular terminal window with the cursor in the middle. As you typed, words would travel along a spiral that grew towards the edge. Scrolling back would be a simple matter of inserting a key into the middle and unwinding.
look, you don't have to like it, but you don't have to lie about having something to do. Does bitching about the content here qualify as something better to do?
ruined.
it's a damned shame how some people just can't handle even the smallest of freedoms.
Apple has always been protective of their designs. Can you blame them? Ever since the justice department decided that it's ok to rip them off, anything they design is fair game for poachers.
Microsoft has proven time and time again that no matter how hard they're giving you the shaft, you're still buying the software. Thank you, sir, may I have an upgrade?
It seems to me that this is needless controversy. Speak with your dollars. If you don't agree with the license, don't buy the software. It's no use complaining after you've already signed the contract.
I wish companies would make license information easily availible online, so that we could find out what we're getting into before we lay down the dough.
Peacocks didn't spring out of the primordial ooze.
Name one OS that was stable and fast with its first release. Windows 1.0, anyone?
Taking into account all the problems with 10.0, it's still among the greatest hacks of all time.
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-1 redundant, I know
but the Amiga can play divx
of course it could.
cold hard cash to piss away at macworld
geek on
It's a shame that Hal Warren didn't get to bless us with more of his work before he died.
wait, no it isn't
I think you're speaking to a generation that belives Ernest P. Worrel and Mark Twain to be of comparable wit.
It sure seems like the only appeal of this device is that it runs linux. It adds no signifigant breadth of functionality to the handheld genre. The apps they have screenshots of look like standard (and a few substandard) palm os facilities.
I'm not an embedded systems sort of person, so there may be something terribly cool about mushing linux down into little devices, but why not use NetBSD? NetBSD is very portable, and I'd bet my socks there's one that runs on the dragonball. Linux (as far as I know [let's be honest, that isn't very far]) was designed to run on i386, wasn't it?
it's hard to make the trapezoidal ones look good on the bookshelf, though.
It's also probably pretty tough to have a consistent interface with such zaniness going on. Rectangular windows are a fundamental part of windowing systems; it's something that every GUI application developer can count on.
How is a window supposed to resize and rearrange its widgets when resized to bizarre shapes? Maintaining any sort of Human Interface standards would be impossible.
The mighty rectangle shall not be overthrown!
No advanced windowing system should be without circular windows.
I want a circular terminal window with the cursor in the middle. As you typed, words would travel along a spiral that grew towards the edge. Scrolling back would be a simple matter of inserting a key into the middle and unwinding.
One day I missed the bus to work, so I rode my bike.
I didn't hear anything on the radio about the new riding your bike because you missed the bus trend.
UNless you install gnome, it roX.
look, you don't have to like it, but you don't have to lie about having something to do. Does bitching about the content here qualify as something better to do?
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing
standard, indeed
ruined. it's a damned shame how some people just can't handle even the smallest of freedoms. Apple has always been protective of their designs. Can you blame them? Ever since the justice department decided that it's ok to rip them off, anything they design is fair game for poachers.
It's a safe bet you're using nvi not the "original vi".
Microsoft has proven time and time again that no matter how hard they're giving you the shaft, you're still buying the software. Thank you, sir, may I have an upgrade? It seems to me that this is needless controversy. Speak with your dollars. If you don't agree with the license, don't buy the software. It's no use complaining after you've already signed the contract. I wish companies would make license information easily availible online, so that we could find out what we're getting into before we lay down the dough.
Peacocks didn't spring out of the primordial ooze. Name one OS that was stable and fast with its first release. Windows 1.0, anyone? Taking into account all the problems with 10.0, it's still among the greatest hacks of all time.
why not just do $50 twice? the red cross donation page was working yesterday. no limit.