It is already happening with Ubuntu, and it will help linux get drivers for all of the hardware that is out there.
I'm not so sure. I think the real next stop is actually handheld devices, be they cellphones or tablets. Not only that, but I'm willing to bet most people won't even know or care that these devices are running linux. The only people who have ever cared about what they run on their desktops is A) Geeks and/or B) Fanboys.
Of course, it could also be that it's taken them this long for events to prove to AT&T that resistance was ultimately futile and counterproductive. Hard to say, with that crowd.
I highly doubt it. If you have any java-enabled phone, any palm based phone, any blackberry phone, any symbian phone and you're using it on the AT&T network, you already know that you've been able to install ANY kind of app - networked or otherwise - on your phone.
The comments aren't funny, unless you happen to think that the crap spewed daily by Anti-Bill shills is worth a laugh.
Take a look at how everything is modded for this story, which is nothing more than a repeat from another site. Really this story is of no value here. It's nice that gizmodo covered it first though.
I've been running MicroB on the Nokia N800 and it now handles pretty much any ajax site I throw at it. I had problems with many ajax sites using Opera 9, not to mention Minimo, but MicroB handles them nicely. Not many extensions available yet though.
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Yes, these were written before anything like StarOffice or OpenOffice existed. However, if you were to actually VIEW the slides, you would see that Microsoft is the butt of recurring mockery and other jokes. So, despite having no alternative to Powerpoint in 1999, I had the opinion then that I do now. I also note that you didn't point out how the fact that my lectures are about the topic of Java--which is itself a competitor that is killing MS.
So convert them to a more open format. A perfectly good open format exists. Oh, I see. You really want people to still use MS products.
I've been working with Linux and Unix in general for over 10 years and once you know what's under the hood, you realize distro wars are silly because they are all basically the same.
You must not have had to install and maintain any sort of enterprise software (Oracle and Domino come to mind) on different distributions, or you would know that different distributions are indeed different. Library naming conventions and filesystem layout are two reasons that you only see certain distributions supported for enterprise applications.
I am sick of U.S. companies treating customers like shit. Damn it! Make a good product, sell a million of them, and support your customers. What the hell is so difficult about that formula? It is the basis of real capitalism, not this fascist lock you in and bend you over crap companies are doing today.
As has been mentioned several times here and elsewhere: You are not forced to buy the iphone. If you're going to spout capitalist/fascist rhetoric, put your money where your mouth is and buy something else, instead of buying the "ooh, shiny, pretty" that the slick marketing tells you to.
It's not municipal wi-fi, but then that's not really what you're complaining about.
I live in Chicago and don't use Comcast. I use Speakeasy myself - not the cheapest, but I've been very satisfied with them. Two others that come to mind off the bat are AT&T and DSLExtreme, both of which offer really pretty low pricing in comparison to Comcast.
You teach a child to look both ways before crossing the street because they my encounter cars before they are fully cognizant about the particular biology and physics that would make a child-car collision unfortunate. Similarly with many other things.
I don't know about you, but I don't rely on the school system to teach my kid how and when to cross the street. Similarly, I don't rely on the school system to teach them to be careful on the internet (or any other social-related thing, for that matter). That's why the PC is in the family room, for all to see.
Not this 99% compatability where 3 times a year you get a document which blowes up in your face and you need to put tail between your legs and beg your supplier or worse your customer to save it in a different format. For the 3 times a year that could cost the company far more then the cost of Office Professional.
Those three times a year are most likely you using either O2K or 2003 and are sent documents from Office 2007. And if you worked in an office you would realize that that happens far more often than 3 times a year.
So how is contacting your supplier/customer and asking them to resave in O2K format any different than asking them to save in something a bit more universal?
Seriously, if you can't realize it's the same thing, different programs, you really don't have much experience with document exchange.
Take a look at yahoo maps. It's..... done. Those whole world is there.
Even for parts of the US...
There have been times I've entered an address in google maps and it's come back empty. I can go to yahoo maps and enter the same thing and get a valid result.
It used to be that google maps had the edge with its hybrid and satellite views, but yahoo has all that now too.
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And guess who actually controls the skies over the US? It's not NASA.
I'm not so sure. I think the real next stop is actually handheld devices, be they cellphones or tablets. Not only that, but I'm willing to bet most people won't even know or care that these devices are running linux. The only people who have ever cared about what they run on their desktops is A) Geeks and/or B) Fanboys.
I highly doubt it. If you have any java-enabled phone, any palm based phone, any blackberry phone, any symbian phone and you're using it on the AT&T network, you already know that you've been able to install ANY kind of app - networked or otherwise - on your phone.
that spam was alive and kicking before either Outlook or Thunderbird, right?
Take a look at how everything is modded for this story, which is nothing more than a repeat from another site. Really this story is of no value here. It's nice that gizmodo covered it first though.
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and all his analysis of the word "chingar" in El laberinto de la soledad.
I've been running MicroB on the Nokia N800 and it now handles pretty much any ajax site I throw at it. I had problems with many ajax sites using Opera 9, not to mention Minimo, but MicroB handles them nicely. Not many extensions available yet though.
So convert them to a more open format. A perfectly good open format exists. Oh, I see. You really want people to still use MS products.
You must not have had to install and maintain any sort of enterprise software (Oracle and Domino come to mind) on different distributions, or you would know that different distributions are indeed different. Library naming conventions and filesystem layout are two reasons that you only see certain distributions supported for enterprise applications.
Who said it's mainstream? I know of no one that has actualy unlocked their iphone.
As has been mentioned several times here and elsewhere: You are not forced to buy the iphone. If you're going to spout capitalist/fascist rhetoric, put your money where your mouth is and buy something else, instead of buying the "ooh, shiny, pretty" that the slick marketing tells you to.
Wonder if it was the actual phone. I do it every month with no problems. With AT&T, roam on vodafone, orange, telefonica and movistar, to name a few.
Or not...
Did you actually read the blog in its entirety? He was given full credit for the full amount.
It's called roaming, and you certainly can with the iphone.
Not yet ready for prime time, but it's nice to see they're adding more functionality.
I live in Chicago and don't use Comcast. I use Speakeasy myself - not the cheapest, but I've been very satisfied with them. Two others that come to mind off the bat are AT&T and DSLExtreme, both of which offer really pretty low pricing in comparison to Comcast.
Spoken like someone who is not a parent.
If you look at the projects, they all rely on some MS proprietary protocol. So, yes, I think they're after control, albeit discreet.
It's ordenador, not computadora.
We're talking about Spain.
I don't know about you, but I don't rely on the school system to teach my kid how and when to cross the street. Similarly, I don't rely on the school system to teach them to be careful on the internet (or any other social-related thing, for that matter). That's why the PC is in the family room, for all to see.
Those three times a year are most likely you using either O2K or 2003 and are sent documents from Office 2007. And if you worked in an office you would realize that that happens far more often than 3 times a year.
So how is contacting your supplier/customer and asking them to resave in O2K format any different than asking them to save in something a bit more universal?
Seriously, if you can't realize it's the same thing, different programs, you really don't have much experience with document exchange.
Even for parts of the US...
There have been times I've entered an address in google maps and it's come back empty. I can go to yahoo maps and enter the same thing and get a valid result.
It used to be that google maps had the edge with its hybrid and satellite views, but yahoo has all that now too.
That list is for its Linux support. They still support Oracle on other architectures, just not together with Linux.
the year of Linux on the embedded device/internet tablet/MID/etc.
All you need to do is look at how the idea of privacy is communicated among various cultures. Some languages don't even provide a word for privacy.