Well if the how-to-vote card volunteers at the by-election last year were any guide, sex sells. Smelly tree-huggers are no match for jail-bait in tight yellow t-shirts.
Any intermediate solutions simply wouldn't work due to issues with scaling existing content.
Some of us use computer displays for more than displaying 'existing content'. Like doing actual work in portrait mode. At least some monitors support pivoting, for those whose employers won't fork out for a fancy monitor stand.
The last viable consumer alternative, PowerPC, was silenced 4 years ago. An iPad inspired revolution may stir a few OEMs to release ARM tablets but Joe Consumer will be stuck with Windows 7 or higher on x86-64 for the foreseeable future.
It's a great idea. Except that microUSB is so new and scarce that my local electronics store wanted to charge me $30 for clearly a $5 cable. Nor could they supply microUSB-miniUSB adapters. One day I'll get around to shopping online for some...
Also, it's dependant on whether one's host computer's USB ports can pump out sufficient juice. On every such computer I've tried, the charging cycle is incredibly slow when compared to using the phone's supplied AC-USB adapter.
As far as screens go for much of the population, 1080p will suffice. As someone else suggested, the average consumer will soon do away with a computer altogether. Simply dock your phone on the side of your TV and input via bluetooth!
The software foundations are already here - phones running Linux (Android) that will magically morph into a full blown standard Gnome/KDE once docked. Of course they'll be stuck in 32 bit land with quad-core ARM chips. But for the target audience, our 82%, a 4GB ceiling is enough.
More like 2, if and when 4-core CortexA9 phones appear. The problem of course will be battery life on said phone.
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For some there's a sweet-spot of 12.1"-13.3" - the keys (sans numeric keypad) are the same size. For those that rarely use numbers it's not such a big deal. Any smaller (and I speak from experience with 10.4" machines) the keys do feel cramped.
When downsizing from a 15" to a 12.1" C2D it wasn't so much the weight that bothered me than the bulk. When you add all the other things one might carry such as lunch, raincoat, books, items from the supermarket then those few inches really make a difference. i.e. a smaller laptop means more misc cargo!
When Google does it, lawmakers see it as an evil corporation infringing civil liberties.
When those same lawmakers (Steve Conroy, yes you) do it it's seen as protecting one's constituents. No apparent hypocrisy here...
I, for one, don't welcome our democratically elected totalitarian overlords. There's a slippery slope between "protecting the children" and spying on one's own citizens for political and religious reasons (family values, banning facebook/youtube because of Mohammed, silencing minorities like the Yugur, Dirty War in Argentina etc)
Intelligence organizations already have enough powers post 9/11, no?
I'm trying to be pragmatic here, the application has already been developed - as a web application. Perhaps a native application may have been a better choice but scrapping a ruby-on-rails delivered solution may not be feasible in the timeframe.
Most place I've worked at recently have firefox installed, except for that one pesky intranet webapp that only runs in IE6 (and higher if you're lucky!)
I'm not advocating the tie-in to a specific version of Opera. However, with an army of IT support personnel keeping things real, I don't see it should be a huge deal, given whatever other cruft they routinely install and maintain in an SOE.
(Assuming of course this application is locked down to an internal network)
From the summary "What browsers and specific versions do you end up deploying"
That sounds to me that they're *deploying* a specific browser to a specific client desktop. That it may work in 'the real world' would seem a moot point.
That said, avoiding too many browser-specific hacks may ensure a smoother upgrade path when deploying, say, version 3 to Chrome9.1 sometime in the future. (But hardly answers the question of which browser *today* prints best.)
Generally with physical hardware buttons one can tell whether one has mistyped. With on-screen, it's very much miss-and-hit. Hence this feature of showing a password character for an instant.
Mate, it's soccer, a game so boring the crowd have to invent their own entertainment.:-)
I blame English imperialist expansion. One of half the globe - Oceania, The Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent got stuck with Test Cricket. As if that weren't bad enough, they inflicted soccer on South America and, it seems, southern Africa.
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Haha, life imitating art? Now we know how Pegg got the gig as Scotty.
'Java', as OpenJDK, *is* open source and is packaged by major distributions, with GPL substitutions for the stuff Sun wasn't going to release.
Android is not OpenJDK, rather based on Apache's Harmony.
Well if the how-to-vote card volunteers at the by-election last year were any guide, sex sells. Smelly tree-huggers are no match for jail-bait in tight yellow t-shirts.
Some of us use computer displays for more than displaying 'existing content'. Like doing actual work in portrait mode. At least some monitors support pivoting, for those whose employers won't fork out for a fancy monitor stand.
Microsoft does.
The last viable consumer alternative, PowerPC, was silenced 4 years ago. An iPad inspired revolution may stir a few OEMs to release ARM tablets but Joe Consumer will be stuck with Windows 7 or higher on x86-64 for the foreseeable future.
It's a great idea. Except that microUSB is so new and scarce that my local electronics store wanted to charge me $30 for clearly a $5 cable. Nor could they supply microUSB-miniUSB adapters. One day I'll get around to shopping online for some...
Also, it's dependant on whether one's host computer's USB ports can pump out sufficient juice. On every such computer I've tried, the charging cycle is incredibly slow when compared to using the phone's supplied AC-USB adapter.
Does it support annotations, those little post-it note things that colleagues add comments with?
Well, even ARM chips are going multi-core these days...
I thought his acting in Hornblower was reasonable, though obviously he had little to work given the series was based around Gruffudd and Lindsay.
I see your point but I think Tom Baker is the best thing about Little Britain!
Great idea but the ReactOS team are giving away their OS for free.
Sony Ericsson have a finger in each pie and are still very much involved in Symbian - posted from a Vivaz running ^1
They translate PDF to html already - try opening a PDF attachment in gmail.
As far as screens go for much of the population, 1080p will suffice. As someone else suggested, the average consumer will soon do away with a computer altogether. Simply dock your phone on the side of your TV and input via bluetooth!
The software foundations are already here - phones running Linux (Android) that will magically morph into a full blown standard Gnome/KDE once docked. Of course they'll be stuck in 32 bit land with quad-core ARM chips. But for the target audience, our 82%, a 4GB ceiling is enough.
2TB of mobile storage? get a USB3 external drive! For many of us that's overkill, even for a 'desktop'.
10 years?
More like 2, if and when 4-core CortexA9 phones appear. The problem of course will be battery life on said phone.
For some there's a sweet-spot of 12.1"-13.3" - the keys (sans numeric keypad) are the same size. For those that rarely use numbers it's not such a big deal. Any smaller (and I speak from experience with 10.4" machines) the keys do feel cramped.
When downsizing from a 15" to a 12.1" C2D it wasn't so much the weight that bothered me than the bulk. When you add all the other things one might carry such as lunch, raincoat, books, items from the supermarket then those few inches really make a difference. i.e. a smaller laptop means more misc cargo!
When Google does it, lawmakers see it as an evil corporation infringing civil liberties.
When those same lawmakers (Steve Conroy, yes you) do it it's seen as protecting one's constituents. No apparent hypocrisy here...
I, for one, don't welcome our democratically elected totalitarian overlords. There's a slippery slope between "protecting the children" and spying on one's own citizens for political and religious reasons (family values, banning facebook/youtube because of Mohammed, silencing minorities like the Yugur, Dirty War in Argentina etc)
Intelligence organizations already have enough powers post 9/11, no?
I'm trying to be pragmatic here, the application has already been developed - as a web application. Perhaps a native application may have been a better choice but scrapping a ruby-on-rails delivered solution may not be feasible in the timeframe.
Most place I've worked at recently have firefox installed, except for that one pesky intranet webapp that only runs in IE6 (and higher if you're lucky!)
I'm not advocating the tie-in to a specific version of Opera. However, with an army of IT support personnel keeping things real, I don't see it should be a huge deal, given whatever other cruft they routinely install and maintain in an SOE.
(Assuming of course this application is locked down to an internal network)
From the summary "What browsers and specific versions do you end up deploying"
That sounds to me that they're *deploying* a specific browser to a specific client desktop. That it may work in 'the real world' would seem a moot point.
That said, avoiding too many browser-specific hacks may ensure a smoother upgrade path when deploying, say, version 3 to Chrome9.1 sometime in the future. (But hardly answers the question of which browser *today* prints best.)
FWIW, my Symbian^1 phone does the same.
Generally with physical hardware buttons one can tell whether one has mistyped. With on-screen, it's very much miss-and-hit. Hence this feature of showing a password character for an instant.
Mate, it's soccer, a game so boring the crowd have to invent their own entertainment. :-)
I blame English imperialist expansion. One of half the globe - Oceania, The Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent got stuck with Test Cricket. As if that weren't bad enough, they inflicted soccer on South America and, it seems, southern Africa.
See also Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.