The 8GB Nexus 7 is $199 USD in the US and $249 AUD in Australia. The 16 GB model is $50 more in each currency.
The Australian price probably includes 10 % GST whereas the US price probably doesn't include sales tax. Assuming a 1:1 exchange rate (which I would be given the current trend) the markup is only 14%. That's not bad given the higher costs of operating a business in Australia.
If poorly planned, poorly funded, poorly implmented projects got you into the current mess, why do you expect the same process to get you out of it?
That's the question I always ask. If they insist I point out the future support issues the half-assed hack will create in the future and get their acknowledgement in writing. Then I roll up my sleeves and implement it (hoping I won't be around in the future when it goes pear-shaped and counting the paid overtime I'm getting).
Maize is an English word. The word corn can refer to a number of things in English. These days it normally means maize, but it was traditionally used to refer to cereal grains grown in England such as wheat, barley, rye and oats. The compound word barleycorn means "a grain of barley", not "a mixture of barley and maize".
The newer SMB2 protocol in post Vista version of windows is much more efficient in network usage. Samba 3.6 now has SMB2 support, but the article doesn't say which (if any) of these devices support the newer protocol.
Maybe, maybe not. If people find it useful they will use it. Plenty used ActiveX back in the day and flash is nearly everywhere despite it's downsides. There are only two architectures that are important for web browsers right now, X86 and ARM. Native Client runs in the browser, it doesn't rely on OS support. If Firefox and Opera were to support it it would be available on a huge number of platforms, including iOS.
Typically a good design has an energy absorbing crumple zone around a rigid passenger compartment.
"... filled various body cavities in the Pinto with rigid urethane foam." Without seeing the article it's not clear what they did, but urethane foam would also be an energy absorber when it is deformed. It is possible to create polyurethanes with vastly differing flexibility. When they are foamed, their properties are vastly different. Rigid polyurethane foam is the type that is used for insulation (in refrigerators for example) and flexible polyurethane foam, 'foam rubber' is the type that is used to cushion seating.
Co-existence means more than that. It means that your neighbour's new.11n equipment shouldn't clobber your existing.11g network. That's important to those in densely packed urban areas
Ever heard of back ports? Redhat does this quite a lot. New drivers into their own kernel tree. Redhat's latest 2.6.9 kernel in RHEL4 is way different to the one Linus released all those years ago.
My less old Latitude D630 still has a serial port. The current Latitudes don't seem to have a serial port. Some business class laptops still have serial ports - for example the Toshiba Tecra M10
Are you not aware that Redhat backport drivers to the RHEL kernels while keeping the kernel major and minor version numbers the same?
Centos kernels are practically the same as RHEL kernels.
Redhat released RHEL 4.8 last month and Centos 4.8 is due real soon now. Their ancient 2.6.9 kernel has drivers to support all modern *server* hardware from major vendors. (probably not notebooks, webcams, scanners and other desktop doodads.)
I'm sure J K Rowling has made a large portion of her fortune from licensing of Harry Potter for movies/TV/music/videogames.
Hmm half a million quid for a movie option before the first book is published.
Ms Rowling, however, does have a secret weapon in her business dealings: her producer, David Heyman. Mr Heyman, after Ms Rowling's agent Christopher Little, was one of the first to recognise Harry Potter's potential.
He took an option on the first book, Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, even before it had been published, for a mere £500,000.
There's a minimal distro for this purpose called Splashtop This is a commercial distro aimed at hardware manufacturers to include in their firmware.
If you have an Asus motherboard it's branded as Express Gate. Some models have it in the flash bios, some require a 512 MB image file to be located on an NTFS partition (also the installer is windows). Either way, it boots really fast, 5-10 seconds.
It has Firefox and Skype, Pidgin and a photo viewer. When you exit, the system boots from the hard disk.
After reading your post, I presume that you're talking about binary compatibility of applications that don't come with a distribution.
Yes, this is a problem for commercial software publishers, because linux distributions are usually not binary compatible with others in terms of library dependencies. Distributions like Redhat maintain binary compatibility in a Major release series and also have some optional libraries for backwards compatibiliy (hint: they have -compat in the RPM name).
Platforms do.
And except for Android, I know of no Linux-based platforms aimed at normal users and/or app developers.
How many different instances of the Android platform exist at the moment? Do you think that other hardware manufacturers that use Android in the future will care about binary compatibility with Motorola Android phones?
Distros are too fluid and there are too many of them anyway. This situation makes coding-for and independently distributing PC applications very confusing.
The only things that would rectify the situation would be to create a fully-spec'd out and vertically-integrated (up through the GUI) platform like Android, or have the community get behind something like LSB Desktop. The latter does not seem to be happening though because it it being marketed to neither users nor app developers AFAIK.
Notice there was no mention of LSB in the article -- There's almost zero awareness of it.
The end user shouldn't have to know about LSB. It's really up to the distributors and integrators implement.LSB is only part of the problem of binary compaibility.
I would like to point out that Linus is against forking the kernel, and his group essentially demands a unified kernel and toolchain (with different distros having different configurations of these pieces).
Actually, I don't think he really cares. His attitude seems to be - if you fork, you support it. Big commercial vendors like Redhat maintain their own forks. The latest Redhat 5.3 kernel is 2.6.18. Redhat do this to maintain binary compatibility. It doesn't seem to bother Linus much.
But when it comes to higher-level stuff that end-users require, they complain about one-size-fits all. Frankly, that attitude says to me that the audio and video architectures in Linux-based desktops will continue to be slipshod and wobbly (unstable performance and unstable APIs), and you can forget about widespread adoption at the consumer level until either the Torvalds mentality dissipates or an Android moves into the desktop space.
Desktop/notebook hardware changes very rapidly. If Android moves into this space, I think they'll encounter the same problems as everyone else. Keeping up is a problem for Microsoft too and they and the hardware manufacturers who write drives spend at least 10 times the effort supporting Windows.
I think Torvalds & Co. are hypocrites who prefer showing off to their coder pals, users be damned. Even worse, they're foul-mouthed trolls who regularly make personal attacks on people they dislike while insisting on civility being directed towards themselves.
I don't think Linus is a hypocrite. He is merely making the distinction between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions. They are very different beasts. The kernel is only a small part of a distribution. His point is that while the same kernel can be repurposed for many different platforms - phone, embedded, desktop, server etcetera, a single distribution is unlikely to support each platform well and probably wouldn't be commercially viable.
Linux will continue to act as repellent to ambitious application developers looking to make their mark or a buck. We'll have to be content for the forsee-able future with ham-fisted G-, K-, X- apps that are usually mere shadows of what they imitate.
Alas, even excellent software like Firefox doesn't get m
I was recently given an Iriver X20 as a gift and luckily for me it does play ogg vorbis. They are cheaper than most players out there. The X20 is pretty large for a flash based player. It has a micro sd slot, FM radio and the battery is user replaceable. The user interface isn't fantastic, but I tend to just select and play whole albums. It shows up as a USB mass storage device (it may also be configured to use MTP) so you don't need the iriver windows software, just drag and drop.
"Now come on guys, that just not true - only 200 hundred years ago you were ALL criminals...." becuase as we all know, there were no black people living in Australia before the English arrived.
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The 8GB Nexus 7 is $199 USD in the US and $249 AUD in Australia. The 16 GB model is $50 more in each currency. The Australian price probably includes 10 % GST whereas the US price probably doesn't include sales tax. Assuming a 1:1 exchange rate (which I would be given the current trend) the markup is only 14%. That's not bad given the higher costs of operating a business in Australia.
The Zotac Nano series are small versatile computers that can run linux. I have one as my media centre.
If poorly planned, poorly funded, poorly implmented projects got you into the current mess, why do you expect the same process to get you out of it?
That's the question I always ask. If they insist I point out the future support issues the half-assed hack will create in the future and get their acknowledgement in writing. Then I roll up my sleeves and implement it (hoping I won't be around in the future when it goes pear-shaped and counting the paid overtime I'm getting).
Maize is an English word. The word corn can refer to a number of things in English. These days it normally means maize, but it was traditionally used to refer to cereal grains grown in England such as wheat, barley, rye and oats. The compound word barleycorn means "a grain of barley", not "a mixture of barley and maize".
Correct. That's why there are moves to change the law to make house purchases more attractive to foreigners.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203752604576641421449460968.html
Spend more that $500,000 and get a residnecy visa.
The newer SMB2 protocol in post Vista version of windows is much more efficient in network usage. Samba 3.6 now has SMB2 support, but the article doesn't say which (if any) of these devices support the newer protocol.
Maybe, maybe not. If people find it useful they will use it. Plenty used ActiveX back in the day and flash is nearly everywhere despite it's downsides. There are only two architectures that are important for web browsers right now, X86 and ARM. Native Client runs in the browser, it doesn't rely on OS support. If Firefox and Opera were to support it it would be available on a huge number of platforms, including iOS.
Typically a good design has an energy absorbing crumple zone around a rigid passenger compartment.
"... filled various body cavities in the Pinto with rigid urethane foam."
Without seeing the article it's not clear what they did, but urethane foam would also be an energy absorber when it is deformed. It is possible to create polyurethanes with vastly differing flexibility. When they are foamed, their properties are vastly different. Rigid polyurethane foam is the type that is used for insulation (in refrigerators for example) and flexible polyurethane foam, 'foam rubber' is the type that is used to cushion seating.
Morons
http://www.viola.org/
The AES instruction set referred to as security processing instructions in the summary will accelereate ssh.
Turboielectric warships were used in the earlier part of the 20th century. For example the first US aircraft carrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Langley_(CV-1)
This is because of New Zealand's tax system.
http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/Page____12961.aspx
Once you subtract the excise diesel is more expensive
Co-existence means more than that. It means that your neighbour's new .11n equipment shouldn't clobber your existing .11g network. That's important to those in densely packed urban areas
Ever heard of back ports? Redhat does this quite a lot. New drivers into their own kernel tree. Redhat's latest 2.6.9 kernel in RHEL4 is way different to the one Linus released all those years ago.
My less old Latitude D630 still has a serial port. The current Latitudes don't seem to have a serial port. Some business class laptops still have serial ports - for example the Toshiba Tecra M10
Rupert Murdoch became a naturalised American Citizen in 1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch#Moving_into_the_United_States
If I recall correctly, Hans Reiser stopped working on ReiserFS and was working no Reiser4 for several years before he 'left the scene'.
Are you not aware that Redhat backport drivers to the RHEL kernels while keeping the kernel major and minor version numbers the same?
Centos kernels are practically the same as RHEL kernels.
Redhat released RHEL 4.8 last month and Centos 4.8 is due real soon now. Their ancient 2.6.9 kernel has drivers to support all modern *server* hardware from major vendors. (probably not notebooks, webcams, scanners and other desktop doodads.)
Code 3 is Poly vinyl chloride. It isn't used for food packaging. It has health risks associated with its use - for example, don't burn it.
Code 7 is "Other" It can be used on any plastic not in categories 1 to 6. It would include polycarbonate which contains BPA.
Hmm half a million quid for a movie option before the first book is published.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1362097/Rowling-vs-Tolkien.html?mobile=true
If you have an Asus motherboard it's branded as Express Gate. Some models have it in the flash bios, some require a 512 MB image file to be located on an NTFS partition (also the installer is windows). Either way, it boots really fast, 5-10 seconds.
It has Firefox and Skype, Pidgin and a photo viewer. When you exit, the system boots from the hard disk.
After reading your post, I presume that you're talking about binary compatibility of applications that don't come with a distribution.
Yes, this is a problem for commercial software publishers, because linux distributions are usually not binary compatible with others in terms of library dependencies.
Distributions like Redhat maintain binary compatibility in a Major release series and also have some optional libraries for backwards compatibiliy (hint: they have -compat in the RPM name).
Platforms do.
And except for Android, I know of no Linux-based platforms aimed at normal users and/or app developers.
How many different instances of the Android platform exist at the moment? Do you think that other hardware manufacturers that use Android in the future will care about binary compatibility with Motorola Android phones?
Distros are too fluid and there are too many of them anyway. This situation makes coding-for and independently distributing PC applications very confusing.
The only things that would rectify the situation would be to create a fully-spec'd out and vertically-integrated (up through the GUI) platform like Android, or have the community get behind something like LSB Desktop. The latter does not seem to be happening though because it it being marketed to neither users nor app developers AFAIK.
Notice there was no mention of LSB in the article -- There's almost zero awareness of it.
The end user shouldn't have to know about LSB. It's really up to the distributors and integrators implement.LSB is only part of the problem of binary compaibility.
I would like to point out that Linus is against forking the kernel, and his group essentially demands a unified kernel and toolchain (with different distros having different configurations of these pieces).
Actually, I don't think he really cares. His attitude seems to be - if you fork, you support it. Big commercial vendors like Redhat maintain their own forks. The latest Redhat 5.3 kernel is 2.6.18. Redhat do this to maintain binary compatibility. It doesn't seem to bother Linus much.
But when it comes to higher-level stuff that end-users require, they complain about one-size-fits all. Frankly, that attitude says to me that the audio and video architectures in Linux-based desktops will continue to be slipshod and wobbly (unstable performance and unstable APIs), and you can forget about widespread adoption at the consumer level until either the Torvalds mentality dissipates or an Android moves into the desktop space.
Desktop/notebook hardware changes very rapidly. If Android moves into this space, I think they'll encounter the same problems as everyone else. Keeping up is a problem for Microsoft too and they and the hardware manufacturers who write drives spend at least 10 times the effort supporting Windows.
I think Torvalds & Co. are hypocrites who prefer showing off to their coder pals, users be damned. Even worse, they're foul-mouthed trolls who regularly make personal attacks on people they dislike while insisting on civility being directed towards themselves.
I don't think Linus is a hypocrite. He is merely making the distinction between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions. They are very different beasts. The kernel is only a small part of a distribution. His point is that while the same kernel can be repurposed for many different platforms - phone, embedded, desktop, server etcetera, a single distribution is unlikely to support each platform well and probably wouldn't be commercially viable.
Linux will continue to act as repellent to ambitious application developers looking to make their mark or a buck. We'll have to be content for the forsee-able future with ham-fisted G-, K-, X- apps that are usually mere shadows of what they imitate.
Alas, even excellent software like Firefox doesn't get m
15 minutes is too long.
I was recently given an Iriver X20 as a gift and luckily for me it does play ogg vorbis. They are cheaper than most players out there. The X20 is pretty large for a flash based player. It has a micro sd slot, FM radio and the battery is user replaceable. The user interface isn't fantastic, but I tend to just select and play whole albums. It shows up as a USB mass storage device (it may also be configured to use MTP) so you don't need the iriver windows software, just drag and drop.
"Now come on guys, that just not true - only 200 hundred years ago you were ALL criminals...."
becuase as we all know, there were no black people living in Australia before the English arrived.