Windows 8 on x86 seems like it'll be the first thing to run well as a tablet / personal computer. Too bad they aren't allowing "native" desktop applications for ARM.
If the transformer could dual boot into a real Linux desktop environment or if android had a "desktop" application then it could compete with Windows 8. From what I've seen of Android (I've had a MyTouch and now a G2) I'm not sure how much use I'd get out of the keyboard / trackpad. I like the idea... hopefully these things will come. But even if X or Wayland was running inside of Android, wouldn't you still need all the GNU userland?
how do I deliver video?
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Not the right place to ask but here it goes anyway....
If I want a video on a web page, and I want it playable in HTML5, Flash (for those who don't have a compatible browser), iPhone, and Android.... how many videos do I need to have on the web server? 1?, 2?, 3?, 4? Are there any guides for doing this?
I'm not sure they refuse to support them but just don't have dedicated hardware for decoding. Have you used Rockbox? Battery life suffers horribly using FLAC.
There is a Fuse filesystem that creates mp3 files on the fly from FLAC. The downside though is for it to look like a filesystem it needs to know the sizes of files right away so it has to use constant bit rate encoding.
The major upgrades to Apple iOS are more equivalent to Android Apps updates than to Android OS updates.
Look at the very latest iOS update. It added twitter or facebook integration to the gallery. This kind of stuff is an app update on Android. Siri?... same thing. Could be accomplished with an application independent of OS version.
I respect the fact that they go back on ideas that are bad.
I remember when they were going to take away the ability to manage multiple queues. I used that all the time when I had room mates, and then with my fiancé back when I was getting 3 at a time. They got a lot of feedback and kept the multiple queues.
I am probably going to discontinue my service anyway because of the lack of a Linux desktop client. It has been way too long. I shouldn't have to pay Microsoft or Apple just to watch Netflix.
Screw state-based education. Private is the way to go. I think in FL the education system gets $11k per student. Certainly a private school would be able to do better with the same money.
I thought this was the sort of things that Lego Mindstorms was supposed to do. Using something for its intended purpose is the exact opposite of a hack.
I have a workstation and a sheevaplug both of which are always on. I run rsync on my data directory periodically between the two.
I also have an offline external drive that I keep in my fireproof safe. Every couple months I'll plug it in and run an rsync.
This has been working fairly well and isn't that tedious, but I don't have off-site backup. This is why I'm thinking about BackBlaze.
I was reading about BackBlaze and some of their hardware designs. I like how they do things. They're small and have low overhead. Time to look into it again.
Those uses need to get over themselves. They don't restrict themselves to visiting web pages whose backends are open source, or to ones that serve Javascript licensed in GPL, so they're already running non-free code on their system.
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Windows 8 on x86 seems like it'll be the first thing to run well as a tablet / personal computer. Too bad they aren't allowing "native" desktop applications for ARM.
Steve Jobs did not change the music industry, Napster did
If the transformer could dual boot into a real Linux desktop environment or if android had a "desktop" application then it could compete with Windows 8.
From what I've seen of Android (I've had a MyTouch and now a G2) I'm not sure how much use I'd get out of the keyboard / trackpad.
I like the idea... hopefully these things will come. But even if X or Wayland was running inside of Android, wouldn't you still need all the GNU userland?
lol.... that made me laugh
Not the right place to ask but here it goes anyway....
If I want a video on a web page, and I want it playable in HTML5, Flash (for those who don't have a compatible browser), iPhone, and Android.... how many videos do I need to have on the web server? 1?, 2?, 3?, 4? Are there any guides for doing this?
... use the SmartOS fork instead. Do you really trust Oracle?
XFCE and LXDE don't have all the administration tools that Gnome3 has. No utility to configure fingerprint readers (my laptop has one) for example.
Oblig xkcd.
What kind of applications would this be used for. The only thing I can think of would be web hosting. Does KVM / Xen even work on ARM?
There wouldn't be any serious enterprise applications that would run on ARM (right now) are there? Java?
I'm not sure they refuse to support them but just don't have dedicated hardware for decoding. Have you used Rockbox? Battery life suffers horribly using FLAC.
There is a Fuse filesystem that creates mp3 files on the fly from FLAC. The downside though is for it to look like a filesystem it needs to know the sizes of files right away so it has to use constant bit rate encoding.
Does that mean 12 and some change? If it was 13.5 minutes they would have said over 13?
Its like saying "My daughter took top 17 in the beauty pageant."... it means she got exactly 17th.
The major upgrades to Apple iOS are more equivalent to Android Apps updates than to Android OS updates.
Look at the very latest iOS update. It added twitter or facebook integration to the gallery. This kind of stuff is an app update on Android. Siri?... same thing. Could be accomplished with an application independent of OS version.
I respect the fact that they go back on ideas that are bad.
I remember when they were going to take away the ability to manage multiple queues. I used that all the time when I had room mates, and then with my fiancé back when I was getting 3 at a time. They got a lot of feedback and kept the multiple queues.
I am probably going to discontinue my service anyway because of the lack of a Linux desktop client. It has been way too long. I shouldn't have to pay Microsoft or Apple just to watch Netflix.
Only because they can't print their own state money like the feds can.
Screw state-based education. Private is the way to go. I think in FL the education system gets $11k per student. Certainly a private school would be able to do better with the same money.
I thought this was the sort of things that Lego Mindstorms was supposed to do. Using something for its intended purpose is the exact opposite of a hack.
I love vat19
http://www.vat19.com/dvds/h20-water-candle-kit.cfm
Instead of allowing SQL which will probably never be a first class citizen, they should have opened their existing platform.
There is a good video of the Joyent CEO bashing Google at a panel with a Google representative right there.
installed the beta last night in VirtualBox 4.1.4 , it was using grub 1.99.
I'm not a customer but I'm thinking about it.
I have a workstation and a sheevaplug both of which are always on.
I run rsync on my data directory periodically between the two.
I also have an offline external drive that I keep in my fireproof safe.
Every couple months I'll plug it in and run an rsync.
This has been working fairly well and isn't that tedious, but I don't have off-site backup.
This is why I'm thinking about BackBlaze.
I was reading about BackBlaze and some of their hardware designs. I like how they do things. They're small and have low overhead.
Time to look into it again.
I think autostitch is used in real life....
http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html
For this deal to pay off, every dreamworks movie they add to their streaming, needs to convince 4 million people to subscribe.
For this to pay off they just need to sit back and collect money. Its about keeping existing customers happy, not necessarily getting new ones.
There will be tablet bodies that are screen only and no brains for me to plug my phone into.
Imagine where you could your phone as a phone, a tablet, or plug a keyboard / mouse into it and use it for browsing / word processing, etc.
Those uses need to get over themselves. They don't restrict themselves to visiting web pages whose backends are open source, or to ones that serve Javascript licensed in GPL, so they're already running non-free code on their system.