TomTom don't have a Linux client either, but their hardware runs on Linux. There's no Kindle for Linux either, and yet the hardware Kindle runs on Linux.
Those to me seem odder than the netflix and google cases.
Don't think they need to be *that* powerful to do what most people need - certainly not in order to cater for the suggested needs of the OP here. But agreed, not completely there yet.
There's nothing stopping anyone manufacturing a docking device which holds a portable device and extends it with keyboard, mouse and displaying on a decent sized monitor. The difference is that you're free to use it in other ways too.
As a european user, War and Peace for the Kindle is listed at $3.44, $10.45 and $13.79. No, I have no idea what the difference between those 3 versions is. Yes, we're forced to pay in $'s, yes, we're forced to use.com (apparently.co.uk isn't part of Europe or something), and, yes, we probably have different content and pricing to what stateside users see.
Let's see... had an Ipad for a couple of weeks and so far - eBook reading (lights off in the bedroom, no problem at all - long train journey, just fine). Comic book reading (nice apps for buying content directly from the main US publishers). Watching video (on the fly conversion from my dvd rips and tv grabs). Browsing (restricted, but fine for checking forums and researching odds and ends). Navigation/GPS. Playing music. Entertaining the kids. Playing games. Catching up on the news.
Nothing really creative - it's a consumer device (pun intended). As a note taking device, I guess it would work, but it's not something I would use it for.
To be honest, I didn't hold many hopes for it before I bought it, but since I could justify it from a business/r&d point of view, I figured I'd give it a shot. No regrets so far - been more than pleasantly surprised by its capabilities.
Very interested to see what the flood of tablets coming will provide..
To be fair, it should be noted that the unhacked PS3 provides a pretty decent media centre - easily extendible (by way of UPnP media servers) to play pretty much anything too.
Paraphrase: 'this conversation is not of interest to me - so I will ask everyone to stop talking about it'.
You clearly don't understand the implications of licenses, so I would politely point out that this conversation isn't of relevance to *you*, but it is to those who do understand them.
Agreed and it works quite well... except... 1) why put the damn things in a hidden directory?, 2) would be nice if there was a way to ensure they remounted on a restart automatically and 3) the memory management is shockingly bad (at least with the smb implementation - typically see it shoot to 3gig over a couple of hours of listening to mp3 and looking at pictures). Yeah, OK, should report the latter one as a bug, but not got round to it yet. Basically, it's a nice idea, but the implementation makes it slightly less than the useful.. shame really - back to hacking/etc/fstab.. sigh..
Kinda in the same boat - I bought my first PS3 for running Linux on it, decided it sucked, and basically had the machine collecting dust for the best part of a year... but for some reason (boredom probably), I dragged it out and started playing a couple of games which came with it (Uncharted in particular) and started playing with its media playback and knocking up some custom stuff to allow me to access my satellite receivers channels through the xmb...
Long story short... very happy customer now - awesome bit of kit. If you're just going to throw yours away, I can give you an address to send it to:-).
These include the cult tendency to focus around a single, charismatic leader whose word is absolute law
Ahem - Abraham? Jesus? Sorry, all religions start with a leader in one way or another... *someone* has to start them, no? There is a difference in how those people use or abuse that position for sure, but fundamentally, it's hard to see much of a distinction at that level... whether the rest is sufficient to distinguish a religion from a cult is debatable too, after all, one fundamental difference exists - new initiates to 'religions' are primarily children...
But don't you think that having written your own qsort/container/parser you're better equipped to understand the implementations of others?
Just saying that inventing your own odd shaped wheel is valuable... don't underestimate what you learnt in the process.
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You can still be accepted even if you make it apparent that you have no interest in a particular thing that those around you like. A joke, a kindly word, tolerance - all good. Detachment, arrogance, superiority, forming cliques - yeah, well those are traits which are gonna get you in trouble in all walks of life.
There are cries of 'yeah, blame the victim' and 'blame society' here, and well, sorry, but yeah, in some cases the victim is at fault. Or the victim's parents. And sometimes, they aren't and it's just down to the bully. Or their parents.
But society? It is a sum of its parts, and the parts include the victims, the bullies and those who are neither. As a result, blanket statements like 'Blame our culture for excluding those who are intellectual' simply doesn't wash - intellectuals can do that all on their own by alienating others....
Agreed, and as expat living in Belgium, I'd happily continue to pay it - we get most of the beeb output via cable/digital tv here, and my kids love cbeebies, my wife loves the the drama and other stuff they produce, and me, I like to keep in touch with UK life. Yes, I pay for the local access already and my provider pays to distribute it, but me, I'd happily pay more (esp. if they opened the iplayer up in the process).
Absolutely - I started developing open source applications to fill a quiet gap in the corporate contract work I was doing at the time - and ultimately, I've never gone back to the original work. My involvement started as a hobby and a bit of fun, but it's turned into a career. I still contribute to open source in the process.
From my point of view, open source is the best thing that ever happened. Scratches an itch, gives you the chance to work and learn with other enthusiasts and professionals, exercises the brain, but mostly it's just hugely fun.
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TomTom don't have a Linux client either, but their hardware runs on Linux. There's no Kindle for Linux either, and yet the hardware Kindle runs on Linux.
Those to me seem odder than the netflix and google cases.
Have fun. Haven't tried lua here yet, but python works fairly well.
Don't think they need to be *that* powerful to do what most people need - certainly not in order to cater for the suggested needs of the OP here. But agreed, not completely there yet.
There's nothing stopping anyone manufacturing a docking device which holds a portable device and extends it with keyboard, mouse and displaying on a decent sized monitor. The difference is that you're free to use it in other ways too.
Yeah, people who spout out car analogies are like bad drivers with broken wing mirrors.
As a european user, War and Peace for the Kindle is listed at $3.44, $10.45 and $13.79. No, I have no idea what the difference between those 3 versions is. Yes, we're forced to pay in $'s, yes, we're forced to use .com (apparently .co.uk isn't part of Europe or something), and, yes, we probably have different content and pricing to what stateside users see.
1/9 = 0.1111111111111111.... assuming infinite precision, multiply both sides by 9 and you have 9/9 = 1, hence 1 = 1 and we're no further forward.
Let's see... had an Ipad for a couple of weeks and so far - eBook reading (lights off in the bedroom, no problem at all - long train journey, just fine). Comic book reading (nice apps for buying content directly from the main US publishers). Watching video (on the fly conversion from my dvd rips and tv grabs). Browsing (restricted, but fine for checking forums and researching odds and ends). Navigation/GPS. Playing music. Entertaining the kids. Playing games. Catching up on the news.
Nothing really creative - it's a consumer device (pun intended). As a note taking device, I guess it would work, but it's not something I would use it for.
To be honest, I didn't hold many hopes for it before I bought it, but since I could justify it from a business/r&d point of view, I figured I'd give it a shot. No regrets so far - been more than pleasantly surprised by its capabilities.
Very interested to see what the flood of tablets coming will provide..
To be fair, it should be noted that the unhacked PS3 provides a pretty decent media centre - easily extendible (by way of UPnP media servers) to play pretty much anything too.
Beginning to think I should have put a smiley in with that comment :-) - yes, I knew what he was referring to :-).
Wife and I canceled satellite and got smartphones, netflix, and a set of rabbit ears
Is this some kinda 'do you think bugs bunny looks cute when he dresses up as a girl' thing which perhaps you shouldn't be telling us about?
"Oh dear," says /., "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
Paraphrase: 'this conversation is not of interest to me - so I will ask everyone to stop talking about it'.
You clearly don't understand the implications of licenses, so I would politely point out that this conversation isn't of relevance to *you*, but it is to those who do understand them.
I'm sure there are some people working on that pirate version right now...
So why put Belgium on the list
Because it's Belgium.
I'm sure there's a connection between the thin air you mention and a loud wooshing sound... so it goes.
Game software is - but the data which the software uses? That's worth something, sometimes.. depends on the game of course...
Agreed and it works quite well... except... 1) why put the damn things in a hidden directory?, 2) would be nice if there was a way to ensure they remounted on a restart automatically and 3) the memory management is shockingly bad (at least with the smb implementation - typically see it shoot to 3gig over a couple of hours of listening to mp3 and looking at pictures). Yeah, OK, should report the latter one as a bug, but not got round to it yet. Basically, it's a nice idea, but the implementation makes it slightly less than the useful.. shame really - back to hacking /etc/fstab.. sigh..
Kinda in the same boat - I bought my first PS3 for running Linux on it, decided it sucked, and basically had the machine collecting dust for the best part of a year... but for some reason (boredom probably), I dragged it out and started playing a couple of games which came with it (Uncharted in particular) and started playing with its media playback and knocking up some custom stuff to allow me to access my satellite receivers channels through the xmb...
Long story short... very happy customer now - awesome bit of kit. If you're just going to throw yours away, I can give you an address to send it to :-).
Depends where you are - if you live in Orkney, it's not remote, everywhere else is :-).
These include the cult tendency to focus around a single, charismatic leader whose word is absolute law
Ahem - Abraham? Jesus? Sorry, all religions start with a leader in one way or another... *someone* has to start them, no? There is a difference in how those people use or abuse that position for sure, but fundamentally, it's hard to see much of a distinction at that level... whether the rest is sufficient to distinguish a religion from a cult is debatable too, after all, one fundamental difference exists - new initiates to 'religions' are primarily children...
But don't you think that having written your own qsort/container/parser you're better equipped to understand the implementations of others?
Just saying that inventing your own odd shaped wheel is valuable... don't underestimate what you learnt in the process.
You can still be accepted even if you make it apparent that you have no interest in a particular thing that those around you like. A joke, a kindly word, tolerance - all good. Detachment, arrogance, superiority, forming cliques - yeah, well those are traits which are gonna get you in trouble in all walks of life.
There are cries of 'yeah, blame the victim' and 'blame society' here, and well, sorry, but yeah, in some cases the victim is at fault. Or the victim's parents. And sometimes, they aren't and it's just down to the bully. Or their parents.
But society? It is a sum of its parts, and the parts include the victims, the bullies and those who are neither. As a result, blanket statements like 'Blame our culture for excluding those who are intellectual' simply doesn't wash - intellectuals can do that all on their own by alienating others....
Agreed, and as expat living in Belgium, I'd happily continue to pay it - we get most of the beeb output via cable/digital tv here, and my kids love cbeebies, my wife loves the the drama and other stuff they produce, and me, I like to keep in touch with UK life. Yes, I pay for the local access already and my provider pays to distribute it, but me, I'd happily pay more (esp. if they opened the iplayer up in the process).
Absolutely - I started developing open source applications to fill a quiet gap in the corporate contract work I was doing at the time - and ultimately, I've never gone back to the original work. My involvement started as a hobby and a bit of fun, but it's turned into a career. I still contribute to open source in the process.
From my point of view, open source is the best thing that ever happened. Scratches an itch, gives you the chance to work and learn with other enthusiasts and professionals, exercises the brain, but mostly it's just hugely fun.