Open, Shmopen. A cartel of mega-corporations submitted a format to ISO - An organisation that lost credibility when it approved OpenXML, which not even MS adhered to at the time of approval.
The market will ultimately decide what codecs they'll support but a mandated spec of *required* formats ought only include those patent and royalty free, is the point being made here.
A better validation of openness - does H.264 meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)? No, it doesn't.
i mean, no offence. But after sticking hicks and habib in that concentration camp for several years, you can tear up that aus-usa bilateral agreement. Guantanamo is Cuban soil, 'won' by the US empire in some long forgotten 19th century war against the Spanish.
Guess the CEO is now going to bet the farm on ARM and Linux and think they can pull it off with closed source drivers!
AFAIK none of the ARM SoC offerings are particularly 'open' with respect to drivers. Hopefully the Nouveau drivers are somewhat reusable. Maybe the horrid driver for GMA500 can be adapted for GPUs sharing a PowerVR SGX?
That made a hell of a lot more sense to me than trying to fit some sort of backwards compatibility for X86 onto ARM, or trying to get those millions of Windows apps ported.
I see a lot of apps on my Windows XP machine that already work on an ARM CPU: Firefox, Java, Pidgin, Chrome, Geany, Thunderbird, Gimp, OpenOffice.org, Evince, Abiword, Gnumeric.
Oh you meant craptastic non-free software; nevermind.:)
You'd think these high tech intersections would have cameras for red light and speeding violations. Next time they might want to allocate some of the budget to CCTV as well.:)
I think once these Honeycomb competitors come on the market, the price of the iPad will drop accordingly.
Apple can afford to sell their devices at cost or even at a slight loss. As a content-consumption device, it's the online revenues with books, games, music, videos where their profits will come from.
You might be waiting a while. There's still no N900 successor as Nokia puts its energies into resurrecting Symbian[1] via a shiny Qt interface. As for 'tablet' devices, I think other vendors would be waiting for some traction before launching a Meego branded product.
Android and Meego are both Linux distros. So in theory you can buy an Android (or Win7) tablet today and 'upgrade' to Meego when it's ready. Assuming you don't buy a locked-down appliance...
Not for long. The iOS app store is a runaway success and has now been adapted for the desktop.
It would surprise me Apple staff were not beavering away to retrofit most of the OS X APIs to their iOS counterparts, supplementing the new platform where necessary. Any obscure 'legacy' NeXTSTEP/OSX API will become deprecated. One API, one platform for iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac.
Want to run apps outside the walled garden? Install iOS Professional through their developer program or volume license iOS Enterprise.
Java SE embedded vs Android 2.2.
Perhaps if Larry wins the court case against Android, Google will be forced to license Java and Android will finally get some decent performance by using Hotspot instead of Dalvik!:)
In any case, these dual core ARM machines are more than powerful enough to run the desktop version for light applications.
This thread discusses the availability of FOSS drivers for those snazzy ARM Cortex chips found commonly in touch-screen devices.
Even if you can 'root' your Android phone, getting a 3D accelerated x.org experience is unlikely. Even Nokia's forthcoming Meego device will be a binary blob affair, I suspect.
The last couple of times I've tried using webjet their website has been malfunctioning when I've tried to book, despite me having used them in the past. Which is kind of a pain as their service for finding international flights used to be good.
The domestic prices on Qantas/VB websites weren't any different...
I mean, suppose Rupert Murdoch became prime minister of Australia
Impossible. Murdoch is now an American national, so wouldn't be eligible for election to our parliament. A more likely scenario would be the USA repealing laws so foreign born citizens could become President. Rupert is nearly 80 but Arnie would most certainly be the next Republican candidate.
Red Hat doesn't have the resources, nor even the incentive to pursue GPL violation lawsuits for Android - Google is the custodian here. Now you may argue it is Google's job to do this but they, for whatever reason, ain't.
If you buy a device, without the protection of the GPL, don't expect support or updates from your cheap Chinese knock-off. i.e. Your Android version may be stuck at 2.3 for the life of the device. Which if you are content to be stuck in 2010 for the next 3 years, or however you long you envisage keeping it, so be it.
Buying GPL-friendly offers the protection that one day you *could* roll-your-own long after vendor updates have disappeared. New releases and performance increases aside, security updates are a consideration.
Garrett has been kind enough to publish a list of non-compliant hardware. If you choose to ignore that list, good luck to you sir!
i suspect we'll see a general shift towards capacitive touchscreen netbooks within a year. The phone and iPad markets will lower the cost of production to the point where it makes sense. Expecting Windows to provide the touchscreen experience is unnecessary. There's now Android. If Intel were smart, they'd release an Atom that had the necessary virtualisation extensions. OEMs could configure Android (or Meego, as favoured by Intel) and Windows to run in a Xen hypervisor. Thus providing the Android experience in ipad-killer mode but switching seamlessly to Win7 in netbook mode. Having one device that's both a tablet and allows one to do 'real' work i.e. Office is a selling point above ARM devices.
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Open, Shmopen. A cartel of mega-corporations submitted a format to ISO - An organisation that lost credibility when it approved OpenXML, which not even MS adhered to at the time of approval.
The market will ultimately decide what codecs they'll support but a mandated spec of *required* formats ought only include those patent and royalty free, is the point being made here.
A better validation of openness - does H.264 meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)? No, it doesn't.
In said fanboy's defense, he probably wasn't born at that stage.
i mean, no offence.
But after sticking hicks and habib in that concentration camp for several years, you can tear up that aus-usa bilateral agreement.
Guantanamo is Cuban soil, 'won' by the US empire in some long forgotten 19th century war against the Spanish.
AFAIK none of the ARM SoC offerings are particularly 'open' with respect to drivers. Hopefully the Nouveau drivers are somewhat reusable. Maybe the horrid driver for GMA500 can be adapted for GPUs sharing a PowerVR SGX?
Gaming being what % of the portable market?
The rest of the market is moving towards fanless, long battery life appliances. Nvidia's target isn't the high end here rather Atom smashing.
Outside of Core i7 monsters (Crysis, specialist scientific pursuits) the future is low power SoCs.
With intel putting their GPU on chip, the writing's on the wall. Hence the Tegra2.
I see a lot of apps on my Windows XP machine that already work on an ARM CPU: Firefox, Java, Pidgin, Chrome, Geany, Thunderbird, Gimp, OpenOffice.org, Evince, Abiword, Gnumeric. :)
Oh you meant craptastic non-free software; nevermind.
Of course they need voice.
When a pedestrian presses the button at the crossing, it's so they can hear "C'mon, little man, change to green"!
You'd think these high tech intersections would have cameras for red light and speeding violations. Next time they might want to allocate some of the budget to CCTV as well. :)
I think once these Honeycomb competitors come on the market, the price of the iPad will drop accordingly.
Apple can afford to sell their devices at cost or even at a slight loss. As a content-consumption device, it's the online revenues with books, games, music, videos where their profits will come from.
I *am* talking about Android. Android *is* Linux.
I wasn't implying *vendor* support but rather community support. i.e. via CyanogenMod.
You might be waiting a while. There's still no N900 successor as Nokia puts its energies into resurrecting Symbian[1] via a shiny Qt interface. As for 'tablet' devices, I think other vendors would be waiting for some traction before launching a Meego branded product.
Android and Meego are both Linux distros. So in theory you can buy an Android (or Win7) tablet today and 'upgrade' to Meego when it's ready. Assuming you don't buy a locked-down appliance...
It's a computer running Linux, thus ought to be upgradeable for the life of the device.
On the other hand, if it doesn't have an open boot-loader and open drivers - no sale.
Or, just don't buy an iDevice in the first place - if the "Apple Way" offends your notion of freedom.
Not for long. The iOS app store is a runaway success and has now been adapted for the desktop.
It would surprise me Apple staff were not beavering away to retrofit most of the OS X APIs to their iOS counterparts, supplementing the new platform where necessary. Any obscure 'legacy' NeXTSTEP/OSX API will become deprecated. One API, one platform for iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac.
Want to run apps outside the walled garden? Install iOS Professional through their developer program or volume license iOS Enterprise.
Reality Distortion Field. Duh.
Java SE embedded vs Android 2.2. :)
Perhaps if Larry wins the court case against Android, Google will be forced to license Java and Android will finally get some decent performance by using Hotspot instead of Dalvik!
In any case, these dual core ARM machines are more than powerful enough to run the desktop version for light applications.
Java2D? :-)
This thread discusses the availability of FOSS drivers for those snazzy ARM Cortex chips found commonly in touch-screen devices.
Even if you can 'root' your Android phone, getting a 3D accelerated x.org experience is unlikely. Even Nokia's forthcoming Meego device will be a binary blob affair, I suspect.
The last couple of times I've tried using webjet their website has been malfunctioning when I've tried to book, despite me having used them in the past. Which is kind of a pain as their service for finding international flights used to be good.
The domestic prices on Qantas/VB websites weren't any different...
Impossible. Murdoch is now an American national, so wouldn't be eligible for election to our parliament. A more likely scenario would be the USA repealing laws so foreign born citizens could become President. Rupert is nearly 80 but Arnie would most certainly be the next Republican candidate.
Red Hat doesn't have the resources, nor even the incentive to pursue GPL violation lawsuits for Android - Google is the custodian here. Now you may argue it is Google's job to do this but they, for whatever reason, ain't.
If you buy a device, without the protection of the GPL, don't expect support or updates from your cheap Chinese knock-off. i.e. Your Android version may be stuck at 2.3 for the life of the device. Which if you are content to be stuck in 2010 for the next 3 years, or however you long you envisage keeping it, so be it.
Buying GPL-friendly offers the protection that one day you *could* roll-your-own long after vendor updates have disappeared. New releases and performance increases aside, security updates are a consideration.
Garrett has been kind enough to publish a list of non-compliant hardware. If you choose to ignore that list, good luck to you sir!
i suspect we'll see a general shift towards capacitive touchscreen netbooks within a year. The phone and iPad markets will lower the cost of production to the point where it makes sense.
Expecting Windows to provide the touchscreen experience is unnecessary. There's now Android. If Intel were smart, they'd release an Atom that had the necessary virtualisation extensions. OEMs could configure Android (or Meego, as favoured by Intel) and Windows to run in a Xen hypervisor.
Thus providing the Android experience in ipad-killer mode but switching seamlessly to Win7 in netbook mode. Having one device that's both a tablet and allows one to do 'real' work i.e. Office is a selling point above ARM devices.
So what if someone designed a netbook with a flippable multi-touch screen and a similar depth as a macbook air?
Still too thick for the couch?
Oh Please! The revolution already began nearly four years ago in Cuba, thanks to that hippy Stallman.