Thanks for the review! I'm searching for a new phone since the current one was left charging during a recent storm. I'm not hip enough for an iPhone and share sentiments about Android not be finished. Surveying the landscape, the logical choice seems to be:
Symbian.
It's mature, a phone first and an app platform second. It has just been made open source (though Nokia may pimp MeeGo, Samsung Bada)
Hopefully Sony Ericsson will continue the platform - the Vivaz looks like a sweet phone!
"We" as in Australia? The same Australia whose government negotiated a Clayton's 5% target for a climate change solution only to be sidelined by party politics?
Somehow I don't think Australian democracy is going to 'solve' climate change any time soon.
Both? A 'slate' is just a netbook with a touch screen and no keyboard. Apple's version runs the iPhone OS. Any month now, as they've been saying for years, clones will emerge running Android - subject to Apple's lawsuits about multi-touch. A 'tablet' is basically a laptop with a rotatable touchscreen. Usually running Windows 7 and out of the price range of the average consumer.
Not having played with Android, I can't say whether it has potential for an iPad-killer OS but if it's multi-touch capabilities are better than your average Gnome desktop then yes it makes sense for reading PDFs, 3G web surfing on the bus.
If the above scenario makes sense rather than a linux desktop adapted for a smaller screen (e.g. Maemo) I guess I'd want the bets of both worlds - a slate running Android that I can use in the aforementioned scenario. Which can be easily be snapped into a standard netbook enclosure with a keyboard, possibly accessing extra RAM and storage when docked. Both environments running ARM Linux, e.g. a Tegra 2 with the option to switch 'live' from the Android UI to X11 when docked and needing to do serious work. Sharing the same home directory...
Interesting, sounds like the opposite of the situation non-Windows platforms have. IIRC, Wine translates Direct3D calls into OpenGL for execution via Mesa.
Without a debian 'potato' release to compare alongside my ubuntu lucid box, I would still have thought most definitely, yes.
The kernel has seen performance rewrites and contributions from large organisations seeking to squeeze extra throughput out of existing hardware, e.g. for web servers. On the client side, groups such as Canonical have polished things to seem less sluggish in boot times etc.
Toolkits such as GTK may seem more bloated because they do more but everything is hardware accelerated these days.
Most of corporate Earth still uses XP. Sometimes when my dual CPU runs like a Pentium I wonder if 8 or so years of improvements to the Windows kernel would make for a more responsive system.
Traditional IDEs will have on hand the available subclasses. e.g. clicking on a sidebar icon for an abstract method will reveal implementations. In the bubble sense, choosing a subclass will open a bubble for the implementation you're interested in - or a bubble for each perhaps.
One possible application may be to visually represent the XML spaghetti known as the Spring Framework.:) i.e. showing bubble sets for IoC defined object graphs. e.g. a 'production' bubble vs. a 'unit test' bubble.
Quite a number. Perhaps not your average cubicle-slave but certainly those in 'client-facing roles' and those encouraged to take work home with them (read unpaid overtime). If security is lax, don't underestimate teenage children in re-enabling features on their parent's work laptop. Then there's consultant teams hired on a project basis that bring their own hardware and aren't subject to internal re-imaging of machines.
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At the risk of starting a vi-vs-emacs style flamewar, I think they prefer the term "trekkers". :)
Indeed, I feel guilty now using Google, knowing that every Yahoo search helps keep Ubuntu alive.
What part of the linked articles mentioning Google Web Toolkit did you miss?
GWT translates source code in Java to html and js. In this case Jake2 is written in Java, and has been massaged into GWT friendly code.
Hence the 'Java' tag.
Thanks for the review! I'm searching for a new phone since the current one was left charging during a recent storm. I'm not hip enough for an iPhone and share sentiments about Android not be finished. Surveying the landscape, the logical choice seems to be:
Symbian.
It's mature, a phone first and an app platform second. It has just been made open source (though Nokia may pimp MeeGo, Samsung Bada)
Hopefully Sony Ericsson will continue the platform - the Vivaz looks like a sweet phone!
"We" as in Australia? The same Australia whose government negotiated a Clayton's 5% target for a climate change solution only to be sidelined by party politics?
Somehow I don't think Australian democracy is going to 'solve' climate change any time soon.
Like Samsung and Sony Ericsson already have on the market.
I saw a documentary about this once
Judging by your username, yes, Larry has a boat.
All he has to do is park it in international waters in the Pacific Ocean...
The worst of both worlds? :)
As nouveau reaches maturity, nvidia is simply putting the 'nv' driver out of its misery.
Were nvidia to discontinue its binary driver, now that would be news but it isn't.
'noun' is a verb now? :)
It's Autumn, you insensitive Northern-Hemispheric clod!
Both? A 'slate' is just a netbook with a touch screen and no keyboard. Apple's version runs the iPhone OS. Any month now, as they've been saying for years, clones will emerge running Android - subject to Apple's lawsuits about multi-touch. A 'tablet' is basically a laptop with a rotatable touchscreen. Usually running Windows 7 and out of the price range of the average consumer.
Not having played with Android, I can't say whether it has potential for an iPad-killer OS but if it's multi-touch capabilities are better than your average Gnome desktop then yes it makes sense for reading PDFs, 3G web surfing on the bus.
If the above scenario makes sense rather than a linux desktop adapted for a smaller screen (e.g. Maemo) I guess I'd want the bets of both worlds - a slate running Android that I can use in the aforementioned scenario. Which can be easily be snapped into a standard netbook enclosure with a keyboard, possibly accessing extra RAM and storage when docked. Both environments running ARM Linux, e.g. a Tegra 2 with the option to switch 'live' from the Android UI to X11 when docked and needing to do serious work. Sharing the same home directory...
Interesting, sounds like the opposite of the situation non-Windows platforms have. IIRC, Wine translates Direct3D calls into OpenGL for execution via Mesa.
Without a debian 'potato' release to compare alongside my ubuntu lucid box, I would still have thought most definitely, yes.
The kernel has seen performance rewrites and contributions from large organisations seeking to squeeze extra throughput out of existing hardware, e.g. for web servers. On the client side, groups such as Canonical have polished things to seem less sluggish in boot times etc.
Toolkits such as GTK may seem more bloated because they do more but everything is hardware accelerated these days.
Faster than XP?
Most of corporate Earth still uses XP. Sometimes when my dual CPU runs like a Pentium I wonder if 8 or so years of improvements to the Windows kernel would make for a more responsive system.
Given RMS' ties to MIT, it's only a matter of time...
Still, buying a product pronounced "dopey" sums up Apple's customers aptly! :)
Traditional IDEs will have on hand the available subclasses. e.g. clicking on a sidebar icon for an abstract method will reveal implementations. In the bubble sense, choosing a subclass will open a bubble for the implementation you're interested in - or a bubble for each perhaps.
One possible application may be to visually represent the XML spaghetti known as the Spring Framework. :) i.e. showing bubble sets for IoC defined object graphs. e.g. a 'production' bubble vs. a 'unit test' bubble.
'magnetic field generator'?
Sounds suspiciously like a 'reality distortion field' for the rest of us!
What about the equatorial penguin? Oh wait, I guess that explains this week's Pacific tsunami?
Linux, meh, toasters have been running NetBSD for 4 1/2 years
My Nokia didn't survive the wash cycle either. The SIM card still works fine!
Are there any phone manufacturers that will certify their products as 'washing machine safe'? :)
Quite a number. Perhaps not your average cubicle-slave but certainly those in 'client-facing roles' and those encouraged to take work home with them (read unpaid overtime). If security is lax, don't underestimate teenage children in re-enabling features on their parent's work laptop. Then there's consultant teams hired on a project basis that bring their own hardware and aren't subject to internal re-imaging of machines.