Like many people have said, this can't bring vision to people who are blind from birth, because of the lack of development in the parts of brain that handle vision. But what about people with one eye blind since birth, is the brain fully developed because of the one good eye, or are there still some underdeveloped parts?
I'm asking because a bionic eye would be even cooler than a pirate eye patch.
Still, the right aproach would be educating users and using some kind of sandbox model:
"pr0napplet wants to make a phone call"
[Allow] [Deny] [Always] [Never]
Funny you should mention that, because that is pretty much exactly what new Series60 phones do. Also, the only way to get a midlet you write the full rights is to have it signed by the manufacturer of the device or the operator.
There may be 50 seperate symbian projects stemming from Nokia alone, but that wouldn't begin to dent the market share that Linux is forming.
Oh? That Linux embedded device market share must be really huge if the biggest mobile phone manufacturer with it's licensees and competitors (also using Symbian OS) can't even make a dent.
Symbian was designed for mobile phones, and basically little else.
You hear a guy driving, talking to himself "now where did I put my cigs... oh there they are -- on the back seat! hmmf hmmf hmmmf almost... almost..." *tires screeching* *CRASH!*
Pretty much exactly that happened to someone I know, except she was reaching for a ringing mobile phone instead of cigarettes when she hit a road sign. My how we laughed when we saw the VW wrapped around a speed limit sign which was the _only_ possible thing to hit on that straight road between two fields.
That's an interesting point, but I think you are wrong.
People who sign their code with the new system are still not liable for any damages. You just give your code away for anyone to use, and that's it. So if someone doesn't like your code, they can find out who wrote it, but how are they going to sue you, what's your crime?
Writing bad code is not a crime, neither is giving it away. You are are only liable if you make malicious code on purpose.
Those times were with machines several years old, on my spanking new xp2500+ 512Mb 'emerge kde mozilla gimp kdevelop jedit' (+ others, you get the idea) took less time than it took me to sleep, go to work, work for ~8 hours and come back home.
I don't really need any advantages to justify leaving the machine compiling when I'm not using it.
So here's a question buried in this rambling anecdote: does Gentoo provide a way of getting "stable" ports, or is the entire OS like the "unstable" branch of Debian?
Kind of, you can choose between stable or unstable packages, I guess Gentoo stable has similar versions of packages as Debian unstable.
The reason I'm using Gentoo right now instead of Debian is basically that I wanted kde 3.x:
root@debian # apt-get install kde
blahblahblah.. Could not install this and that, sorry, broken packages.
root@gentoo # emerge kde
blahblahblah, here you go, enjoy your nice new kde.
I currently get one or two spams every day, so I don't bother with filtering. But if I someday deside to do it, it's very easy: I can just set up a really agressive filter and not worry about losing any important mail.
Here's why: An average spam filter won't catch any finnish (or any other non-english language) messages, and there's no such thing as finnish spam, so basically I'm all set. Well, maybe whitelisting @myworkplace.com would be a good idea..
Now, what I'd be really interested in would be a filter to weed out all messages which are boring, irrelevant to me, I've seen already or just plain stupid. I'd pay for that, actually.
Samsung is NOT just licensing the raw Symbian OS, they are actually getting Nokia's Series60 platform (the same one Siemens licensed a while ago) which is based on Symbian OS but includes many improvements and fixes, not to mention a far superior Java/MIDP implementation. Series60 includes also the whole UI, SOS just comes with a very crude reference implementation.
Samsung just has to license the SOS separately because of complicated contracts between Nokia and Symbian.
Not true. Nokia has allready announced 3650 ( http://www.nokia.com/phones/3650/ ) which is triband (works in the USA too), and can record video without any extra software.
This baby also icludes an MMC card for storing those video clips and should be on sale early next year.
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Like many people have said, this can't bring vision to people who are blind from birth, because of the lack of development in the parts of brain that handle vision. But what about people with one eye blind since birth, is the brain fully developed because of the one good eye, or are there still some underdeveloped parts?
I'm asking because a bionic eye would be even cooler than a pirate eye patch.
Which one of the affected browsers is the first to fix this?
Funny you should mention that, because that is pretty much exactly what new Series60 phones do. Also, the only way to get a midlet you write the full rights is to have it signed by the manufacturer of the device or the operator.
Or not to FP?
..And live in the center of a city.
In Finland. I for one welcome any scared slashdotters.
No. http://www.metalgrass.com/symbianinvestor/SymbHis
Nokia and others ship millions of Symbian OS smartphones, yet somehow they are not showing up on the graphs..
Pretty much exactly that happened to someone I know, except she was reaching for a ringing mobile phone instead of cigarettes when she hit a road sign.
My how we laughed when we saw the VW wrapped around a speed limit sign which was the _only_ possible thing to hit on that straight road between two fields.
That's an interesting point, but I think you are wrong.
People who sign their code with the new system are still not liable for any damages. You just give your code away for anyone to use, and that's it. So if someone doesn't like your code, they can find out who wrote it, but how are they going to sue you, what's your crime?
Writing bad code is not a crime, neither is giving it away. You are are only liable if you make malicious code on purpose.
..That if you stick an USB bluetooth adapter in your *BSD box it will come back to life?
Emacs! Bust out Emacs, you clod! Oh wait, I hate them both..
Those times were with machines several years old, on my spanking new xp2500+ 512Mb 'emerge kde mozilla gimp kdevelop jedit' (+ others, you get the idea) took less time than it took me to sleep, go to work, work for ~8 hours and come back home.
I don't really need any advantages to justify leaving the machine compiling when I'm not using it.
Kind of, you can choose between stable or unstable packages, I guess Gentoo stable has similar versions of packages as Debian unstable.
The reason I'm using Gentoo right now instead of Debian is basically that I wanted kde 3.x:
root@debian # apt-get install kde
blahblahblah.. Could not install this and that, sorry, broken packages.
root@gentoo # emerge kde
blahblahblah, here you go, enjoy your nice new kde.
I currently get one or two spams every day, so I don't bother with filtering. But if I someday deside to do it, it's very easy: I can just set up a really agressive filter and not worry about losing any important mail.
Here's why: An average spam filter won't catch any finnish (or any other non-english language) messages, and there's no such thing as finnish spam, so basically I'm all set. Well, maybe whitelisting @myworkplace.com would be a good idea.. Now, what I'd be really interested in would be a filter to weed out all messages which are boring, irrelevant to me, I've seen already or just plain stupid. I'd pay for that, actually.
Samsung is NOT just licensing the raw Symbian OS, they are actually getting Nokia's Series60 platform (the same one Siemens licensed a while ago) which is based on Symbian OS but includes many improvements and fixes, not to mention a far superior Java/MIDP implementation. Series60 includes also the whole UI, SOS just comes with a very crude reference implementation.
Samsung just has to license the SOS separately because of complicated contracts between Nokia and Symbian.
Not true. Nokia has allready announced 3650 ( http://www.nokia.com/phones/3650/ ) which is triband (works in the USA too), and can record video without any extra software. This baby also icludes an MMC card for storing those video clips and should be on sale early next year.