If you want a device that size, chances are you'll also what the physical keyboard, well otherwise your probably writing kanji.
I'm also curious why people are attracted to Android. I've found that my N900 definitely has limitations, especially no printing. Yeah, I could always install cups and ghostscript just like Linux, but I'd need to micromanage the ghostscript driver installation, well plus the apps don't offer print buttons. How does printing work on Android?
I'm also not terribly happy with x11vnc on the N900. It'd rock if my phone's screen would just pop up on my desktop, but x11vnc is unbearably slow over wifi, making only usb networking pleasent for sharing screens. I'm obviously very happy the N900 has pdflatex svn, git, and rsync, but I've only actually used rsync. Android must have an rsync implementation, but what about svn and git?
Afaik, the N900's email program also lacks gpg integration.:(
An N900 running Maemo is way more fun.. and MeeGo will be more fun in the future.
In fact, I see tremendous value in pushing the screen real-estate for phones, sure some people won't buy the bigger phone, but you might hit that optimal size for many people.
That said, you'll never break into a larger screen size using only a virtual keyboard. Anyone who'll buy the oversized phone will require the real keyboard for more computer like functionality, like writing emails.
I donno, you could install the linux printing subsystem since cups isn't very big. I guess minimizing ghostscript's bloat might require some apt/dpkg/rpm integration for drivers.
Ideally, you might configure cups for just forwarding files, letting another machine handle the print drivers, and let people install ghostscript drivers if they've got a wifi printer.
After that, adding print commands into the various Maemo applications doesn't sound all that difficult, the main ones being email, web, maps, pdf reader, and file manager.
In fact, you can already print files from Maemo by building an ssh script, but that's not especially convenient.
Imho, there were three big features missing form Maemo : video calling, rotation, and printing. We've now got video calling and limited rotation, but still no printing.
Android phones will run unsigned apps, right? I'd assume you could maintain your Android app outside the marketplace, which isn't the same revenue stream, but might pay for the data feed.
In any case, I actually suggested developing a business around porting existing successful iPhone apps to Qt on Symbian, which probably goes way beyond the abilities of out iPhone developer, but nevertheless represents a solid business model with many potential corporate customers.
In fact, I specifically mentioned Symbian because Nokia still kinda owns the lower tier smartphone market outside the U.S., including all Cricket playing countries. But WebOS, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile are also all perfectly viable platforms, but you just better know your target audience.
You got what you deserved for working with oligarchs. What did you expect?
A little life advice, you know that girl you call every 2-3 days for 2 weeks, but never actually meet? Well, she's just not that into you. Apple'a App store is a pretty similar situation. You should either (a) get a job writing an app for people who have the clout, like say a newspaper, or (b) just changing fucking platforms.
Maemo and MeeGo are kinda a moving target right now, but one might try expanding GnuSTEP to aid porting iPhone apps. Or, if your really crazy, try writing tools to help port iPhone apps to Qt. I'm sure many iPhone developers would love having their apps run natively on Symbian phones.
Btw, GnuSTEP was originally developed by SLAC to help port HippoDraw away from the dying NeXT platform, but they eventually gave up on Objective C and NeXTSTEP's, instead choosing Qt.
Yes, the first amendment applies to states, counties, etc., but I'm pretty sure you cannot convict a public servant of treason for violating the constitution, otherwise surely we'd have seen one already.
A charge like murder has lesser variants like manslaughter when unintentional. You could argue that a charge like treason should have lesser charges called maybe "offense against freedom" for constitutional violations that were subtle or unknowing. Just like manslaughter never carries the death penalty, an officer who commits the "offense against freedom" of beating up a guy with a camera would merely serve jail time, not be killed.
Freenet hosts are usually the sort of people who'll call the ACLU and EFF if they get dragged into court. And they're the often the sort of people the ACLU and EFF will have a very easy time defending.
Politicians don't usually care about jack shit except for giving tax money to their friends, and being reelected. All the good laws that get passed are mostly just people being inherently good when there wasn't any sacked financial interest against the law. Child porn is conversely an easy tool for being reelected.
If you target Freenet, you'll get a fight from well respected and moderately funded organizations. You'll also risk exposing that your favorite political tools are full of shit to a few more people for negligible political gains because : Freenet hosts are not themselves child porn consumers.
A more effective solution would be helping the patients sick an ambulance chasing lawyer on the hospital for every refused case that could be life threatening, well like any case where the blood test included any tests for diseases taht could be fatal relatively quickly. You might find the hospital was more amicable after their lawyers spend a few hundred grand fighting off silly lawsuits.
Maemo is the only successful quasi-normal computer interface that's worked for phones afaik. I've no idea what the MeeGo interface will look like, but I'd imagine they'll build upon that success. For example, you cannot resize widgets under Maemo, which makes sense given the small real-estate, but your nevertheless always trying to fit too many widgets onto one screen, and some widgets are the wrong size..
Umm, my N900 does 3G fine. There is an option in your setting that'll switch down to "2.5" from 3G, which saves your battery if your not using telco data, like because your on pre-paid while traveling and/or use wifi all the time.
"It really is Apple's way or the highway" just says he's either a lousy developer, or lazy. Android offers the user base if you debug your app properly. In truth, Apple has always attracted douche bag developers who often polish a shiny user interface over a weak and/or unstable core, and then pollute the google search results for identical apps with their crippleware. I'm not surprised the iPhone has made this worse by limiting the developers options for real software, focussing them more on the user interface.
Video didn't work until last week after PR1.2. SIP video kinda worked if the other party initialized, but you couldn't initialize, and skype had no video.
We've seen considerable cultural shift through the dissemination of the "greed is good" ideal : Ayn Rand's fiction and "philosophical" writing represents one important faction. There has been the blowback against socialism known as Thatcherism. The most insidious however has been the economists deciding that a business' sole duty was to maximize shareholder wealth.
Nokia only just added video calling for Skype on the N900 last week in PR1.2, but that delay seems like just Nokia's Symbian heads acting like douche bags with respect to the Maemo/MeeGo platform designed to help them hold the high end phone market.
Yeah, she's also designed her sample size so as to mirror the wider populations as closely as possible. You'll see far less belief if you restrict to professors at top tier institutions. NAS surveys set the gold standard since NAS members are the best of the best.
You'll conversely find many religious people if you count lab techs. I'd expect the level has more impact than hard vs. soft, but who know. Btw, you'll find more atheists in Ivy league theology departments than across all theology departments.
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Oh my comment obviously doesn't apply in the presence of the Steve Jobs reality distortion field. :) I was only criticizing this particular tablet.
If you want a device that size, chances are you'll also what the physical keyboard, well otherwise your probably writing kanji.
I'm also curious why people are attracted to Android. I've found that my N900 definitely has limitations, especially no printing. Yeah, I could always install cups and ghostscript just like Linux, but I'd need to micromanage the ghostscript driver installation, well plus the apps don't offer print buttons. How does printing work on Android?
I'm also not terribly happy with x11vnc on the N900. It'd rock if my phone's screen would just pop up on my desktop, but x11vnc is unbearably slow over wifi, making only usb networking pleasent for sharing screens. I'm obviously very happy the N900 has pdflatex svn, git, and rsync, but I've only actually used rsync. Android must have an rsync implementation, but what about svn and git?
Afaik, the N900's email program also lacks gpg integration. :(
An N900 running Maemo is way more fun.. and MeeGo will be more fun in the future.
In fact, I see tremendous value in pushing the screen real-estate for phones, sure some people won't buy the bigger phone, but you might hit that optimal size for many people.
That said, you'll never break into a larger screen size using only a virtual keyboard. Anyone who'll buy the oversized phone will require the real keyboard for more computer like functionality, like writing emails.
I donno, you could install the linux printing subsystem since cups isn't very big. I guess minimizing ghostscript's bloat might require some apt/dpkg/rpm integration for drivers.
Ideally, you might configure cups for just forwarding files, letting another machine handle the print drivers, and let people install ghostscript drivers if they've got a wifi printer.
After that, adding print commands into the various Maemo applications doesn't sound all that difficult, the main ones being email, web, maps, pdf reader, and file manager.
In fact, you can already print files from Maemo by building an ssh script, but that's not especially convenient.
Imho, there were three big features missing form Maemo : video calling, rotation, and printing. We've now got video calling and limited rotation, but still no printing.
He can sue for libel assuming he can prove the accusations are false, but the school district should not get involved.
I'll stick with my N900 thank you very much.
Android phones will run unsigned apps, right? I'd assume you could maintain your Android app outside the marketplace, which isn't the same revenue stream, but might pay for the data feed.
In any case, I actually suggested developing a business around porting existing successful iPhone apps to Qt on Symbian, which probably goes way beyond the abilities of out iPhone developer, but nevertheless represents a solid business model with many potential corporate customers.
In fact, I specifically mentioned Symbian because Nokia still kinda owns the lower tier smartphone market outside the U.S., including all Cricket playing countries. But WebOS, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile are also all perfectly viable platforms, but you just better know your target audience.
You got what you deserved for working with oligarchs. What did you expect?
A little life advice, you know that girl you call every 2-3 days for 2 weeks, but never actually meet? Well, she's just not that into you. Apple'a App store is a pretty similar situation. You should either (a) get a job writing an app for people who have the clout, like say a newspaper, or (b) just changing fucking platforms.
Maemo and MeeGo are kinda a moving target right now, but one might try expanding GnuSTEP to aid porting iPhone apps. Or, if your really crazy, try writing tools to help port iPhone apps to Qt. I'm sure many iPhone developers would love having their apps run natively on Symbian phones.
Btw, GnuSTEP was originally developed by SLAC to help port HippoDraw away from the dying NeXT platform, but they eventually gave up on Objective C and NeXTSTEP's, instead choosing Qt.
Yes, the first amendment applies to states, counties, etc., but I'm pretty sure you cannot convict a public servant of treason for violating the constitution, otherwise surely we'd have seen one already.
A charge like murder has lesser variants like manslaughter when unintentional. You could argue that a charge like treason should have lesser charges called maybe "offense against freedom" for constitutional violations that were subtle or unknowing. Just like manslaughter never carries the death penalty, an officer who commits the "offense against freedom" of beating up a guy with a camera would merely serve jail time, not be killed.
Freenet hosts are usually the sort of people who'll call the ACLU and EFF if they get dragged into court. And they're the often the sort of people the ACLU and EFF will have a very easy time defending.
Politicians don't usually care about jack shit except for giving tax money to their friends, and being reelected. All the good laws that get passed are mostly just people being inherently good when there wasn't any sacked financial interest against the law. Child porn is conversely an easy tool for being reelected.
If you target Freenet, you'll get a fight from well respected and moderately funded organizations. You'll also risk exposing that your favorite political tools are full of shit to a few more people for negligible political gains because : Freenet hosts are not themselves child porn consumers.
A more effective solution would be helping the patients sick an ambulance chasing lawyer on the hospital for every refused case that could be life threatening, well like any case where the blood test included any tests for diseases taht could be fatal relatively quickly. You might find the hospital was more amicable after their lawyers spend a few hundred grand fighting off silly lawsuits.
Maemo is the only successful quasi-normal computer interface that's worked for phones afaik. I've no idea what the MeeGo interface will look like, but I'd imagine they'll build upon that success. For example, you cannot resize widgets under Maemo, which makes sense given the small real-estate, but your nevertheless always trying to fit too many widgets onto one screen, and some widgets are the wrong size..
So how do we help them derail it?
Umm, my N900 does 3G fine. There is an option in your setting that'll switch down to "2.5" from 3G, which saves your battery if your not using telco data, like because your on pre-paid while traveling and/or use wifi all the time.
So you're saying iPhone will get piss slow JavaScript based Flash while the Flash Blocker on my N900 functions normally? Awesome! :)
"It really is Apple's way or the highway" just says he's either a lousy developer, or lazy. Android offers the user base if you debug your app properly. In truth, Apple has always attracted douche bag developers who often polish a shiny user interface over a weak and/or unstable core, and then pollute the google search results for identical apps with their crippleware. I'm not surprised the iPhone has made this worse by limiting the developers options for real software, focussing them more on the user interface.
They'll implement the new machine code generation routines in C++ just like now, and then cross compile gcc.
WebOS beats the pants off Windows Mobile. I'll hold out for Intel shipping a MeeGo tablet however. N900s are fucking awesome.
Video didn't work until last week after PR1.2. SIP video kinda worked if the other party initialized, but you couldn't initialize, and skype had no video.
We've seen considerable cultural shift through the dissemination of the "greed is good" ideal : Ayn Rand's fiction and "philosophical" writing represents one important faction. There has been the blowback against socialism known as Thatcherism. The most insidious however has been the economists deciding that a business' sole duty was to maximize shareholder wealth.
Nokia only just added video calling for Skype on the N900 last week in PR1.2, but that delay seems like just Nokia's Symbian heads acting like douche bags with respect to the Maemo/MeeGo platform designed to help them hold the high end phone market.
All that shit "just works" on my N900, including Skype. Imho, the only mobile platform that doesn't "just work" is Window Mobile.
Yes, the false positive rate for IP collection must be very high given how they're allocated. Does anyone know the statistics?
Yeah, she's also designed her sample size so as to mirror the wider populations as closely as possible. You'll see far less belief if you restrict to professors at top tier institutions. NAS surveys set the gold standard since NAS members are the best of the best.
You'll conversely find many religious people if you count lab techs. I'd expect the level has more impact than hard vs. soft, but who know. Btw, you'll find more atheists in Ivy league theology departments than across all theology departments.