They don't call it a PDA simply because it's not a Personal Digital Assistant. It's a Media device at heart: surf Web, read e-mail, listen to mp3 (and soon ogg), watch videos, read news, listen to radio... PIM-software will probably be available, but just comparing those capabilities to a Palm or something doesn't do the 770 justice.
It's also arguably more versatile -- I bet there will be a wide variety of software available for this device very soon, as programs available for Debian are ported to maemo...
Travel a little. You'll see that computers are used pretty much everywhere now. No, I don't mean the rural outback of a developing country, but I do mean all the cities (however poor) in that same country.
Does anyone really think that a $100 laptop is going to improve the quality of life
for the vast majority in a "developing country"?
I do. Cheaper factor of production (in this case computers) means more production. More production means more money. This money is in the hands of the few who have computers, but Economics 101 will tell you that this in the end creates more money in the whole economy... Or is there something I'm missing here?
Some of the largest projects I've ever seen on something like CVS or SVN have been Mozilla, GNOME, and KDE, and those are generally much smaller than a kernel.
That's bull, they're easily in the same ballpark. Mozilla is actually larger (if you include all components in their versioning system) that the kernel -- a whopping 30 million lines of code, if I recall correctly.
The actual problem is the need for parallelism in kernel development not present in the other projects (they work fine with a centralized SCM).
Why couldn't Linux users claim that (assuming they justify the claim somehow)? If Joe Bob Windows read computer security books, his system would probably be safer. Does this tell us anything about the comparable inherent security of Windows vs. Linux? No.
You seem to think that knowledgeable user base somehow precludes or lowers the possibility of better inherent system security. In fact the opposite is probably true -- people who understand computer security are probably going to select more secure systems...
Oh, don't quit: You said Javascript is not enough? Please explain -- and remember that we're not talking about js on web pages (where you cannot trust the js engine to behave)...
I'd like to hear what the language, or the SpiderMonkey implementation, is really missing? You might want to check out Douglas Crockford's article to see some common misunderstandings (the rest of the site has some pieces of js that really show the power of the language).
The url bar is also a another control (a dropdown-list), which has other behaviour for down-arrow and up-arrow. One of these behaviours has to be dropped. The mozilla devs have decided to drop the textinput specific behaviour (actually it's still available with c-left / c-right and s-c-left / s-c-right).
You need to state your arguments for changing this. Why would it be better to change the down arrow -action from current one (moving up in dropdown-list)? To me that is clearly the most expected action in the situation... By the way, does Safari really behave differently here?
The engineers, I'm sure, were given no real choice in the matter.
Yeah, the managers probably held a gun on their heads... An engineer who builds a rootkit for his employer might not be a criminal, but he clearly doesn't have a spine.
Do we have to go through this every time? These figures might not be reliable, but that is not the reason. It's easy to spot Opera even when it's spoofing:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Opera 7.0 [en]
And yes, the people who log this stuff generally know enough to separate Opera from IE (there was a study on the different sitetrackers a couple of years ago and even the free ones got Opera right).
Caitsith01 had obviously not used a good desktop-oriented distro in recent years -- there are too many false points there.
I don't use Windows very often, and when I have to do some maintenance tasks in it, it definitely does not feel intuitive or logical... Naturally I understand that some of this is because of my experience with *nix, but it doesn't change the fact that I (an experienced computer user) see Windows as a cryptical, illogical black box I have very little control over, does it?.
Microsoft may have looked at why I (or someone in their test group) had these problems, but I haven't seen the improvements you talk about... I admit this might be because I'm not a Windows expert. Caitsith01 did not admit this (or the last point), and the parent post pointed that out -- "maybe it's just you" -- this is not the same as saying he's wrong.
By the way, have you heard e.g. Canonical saying "our users are wrong"? If you had, I would have accepted your criticism... Comparing the Linux movement to Microsoft is stupid. Just like comparing a specific model of Windows to "Linux" (and not a distro).
I don't get it. It sounds like you think it's wrong to have both powerful tools and less powerful, easy tools on the same OS?
1. Grep searches for a pattern in a given file, it's not a search engine. If you want to complain about search engines on Linux, complain about Best/Beagle...
2. Grep is _very_ simple and easy to use:
grep search_term filename
Sure, you can use regexps and stuff, but you don't need to.
The Linux market is so incredibly tiny that no hacker looking to make money takes the time to hack Linux. The fact of the matter is Linux, by all market saturation to security flaw/bug ratios (e.g. bugtraq), is just as vulnerable as Windows and OSX.
Your statement is just as groundless as the ones you're ridiculing... Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe you do have a reliable study that proves this? In that case, please give us some references.
Google is a corporation, it's primary motive is, and always will be, profit
Not really, if all a person want is profit they will choose a life of crime.. maybe be a drg ealer. instead of investing in a company
No, not if the risk of getting caught, despised by ones friends, etc., is high enough to negate the higher profit. This should be evident to anyone.
See, what they taught in school and in economics class is totally false. Money and wealth isn't a finite resource.. for one person to be rich it doenst mean another has to be poor.
Maybe you should actually take a class in economics. You don't seem to have any idea what they teach there...
I am not going to buy that a corporations sole motives are profit, because nobody has proved it to me. A corporation can acheive altruistic ends.
Could be, but then they would be betraying their shareholders, who would be entitled to sue the company -- and rightfully so. The shareholders should be the ones deciding whether their money is going to charity or to generate nore money, not the company.
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It's also arguably more versatile -- I bet there will be a wide variety of software available for this device very soon, as programs available for Debian are ported to maemo...
The actual problem is the need for parallelism in kernel development not present in the other projects (they work fine with a centralized SCM).
You seem to think that knowledgeable user base somehow precludes or lowers the possibility of better inherent system security. In fact the opposite is probably true -- people who understand computer security are probably going to select more secure systems...
I'd like to hear what the language, or the SpiderMonkey implementation, is really missing? You might want to check out Douglas Crockford's article to see some common misunderstandings (the rest of the site has some pieces of js that really show the power of the language).
Now put the glasses back on. That's an order.
likewise, HTH.
You need to state your arguments for changing this. Why would it be better to change the down arrow -action from current one (moving up in dropdown-list)? To me that is clearly the most expected action in the situation... By the way, does Safari really behave differently here?
Do we have to go through this every time? These figures might not be reliable, but that is not the reason. It's easy to spot Opera even when it's spoofing:
And yes, the people who log this stuff generally know enough to separate Opera from IE (there was a study on the different sitetrackers a couple of years ago and even the free ones got Opera right).The press release is at http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox40_bro wser_market_firefox_growing.html, Opera is at 0.77%. In April it was 1.03%
I think I'm one of those people. What application (that Joe Average uses) would benefit from clustering?
Those are essential parts of open source and all the OSI licenses have them. Why oversimplify when the original idea is simple already?
If you haven't seen these organizations before, read the Reg or SourceWatch
Hey istartedi, if you ever find yourself in a court of law, get a lawyer. Seriously.
Actually... No, you can't.
- Caitsith01 had obviously not used a good desktop-oriented distro in recent years -- there are too many false points there.
- I don't use Windows very often, and when I have to do some maintenance tasks in it, it definitely does not feel intuitive or logical... Naturally I understand that some of this is because of my experience with *nix, but it doesn't change the fact that I (an experienced computer user) see Windows as a cryptical, illogical black box I have very little control over, does it?
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- Microsoft may have looked at why I (or someone in their test group) had these problems, but I haven't seen the improvements you talk about... I admit this might be because I'm not a Windows expert. Caitsith01 did not admit this (or the last point), and the parent post pointed that out -- "maybe it's just you" -- this is not the same as saying he's wrong.
By the way, have you heard e.g. Canonical saying "our users are wrong"? If you had, I would have accepted your criticism... Comparing the Linux movement to Microsoft is stupid. Just like comparing a specific model of Windows to "Linux" (and not a distro).1. Grep searches for a pattern in a given file, it's not a search engine. If you want to complain about search engines on Linux, complain about Best/Beagle...
2. Grep is _very_ simple and easy to use:
Sure, you can use regexps and stuff, but you don't need to.So, should the guy sit in the lobby waiting for the renters to come in, or should the renters be without a connection until mr. technician arrives?
Did you consider that the internet, and this program, are accessible also from outside of your country?
Well, fair competition between the two hasn't happened in capitalist countries so far, so I guess this is worth a try...
Your statement is just as groundless as the ones you're ridiculing... Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe you do have a reliable study that proves this? In that case, please give us some references.
I wrote 60 km^2, goddamit!
Then again they can't have meant 60 km -- cause then their "handful" would equal about 6000 airships...