It's a very small niche. I suspect the reason for the 'community-driven' spin-off is that Jambi has received a lukewarm response from commercial developers (who, until now, haven't had the benefit of LGPL).
Java has an extensive range of established frameworks and for UI toolkits Swing and SWT. I, and evidently Nokia, can't see the business case for adopting Jambi. Ignoring the technical details, it's much easier to assemble a team of experienced Swing developers.
I'm a Java developer by trade. If a project I worked on made the decision to use a Qt based frontend, I'd be inclined to back the mature C++ version (rather than an unsupported side-project), while using Java EE on the server as necessary.
Beware the Java-Cocoa experiment on OS X. Sorry to spread FUD but I think the community project will be limited to hobbyists only.
Don't single out minuscule rises in temperature... The real issue here is rain, or lack thereof. As the poster you replied to mentioned, the area has been in a state of drought far beyond the normal cycle. no rain == dry areas.
The reality is the rainfall patterns in southern Australia have significantly changed, even in the last 20 years since I was a kid.
For fire-prone areas, this may mean it's not a safe idea to repopulate communities if the lessened projected rainfall for the next 20, 50 or 100 years says that the fire danger is significantly higher.
Perhaps the rains will return but the signs are their that we should expect no great swing back to 'normal' climate in Victoria for the foreseeable future. Now call it man made or a natural cycle in the earth's history but this is climate change and it's real!
No I wasn't kidding, just asking what I thought was a reasonable question for a 'modern' desktop OS.
Whenever I plug in an unknown USB device, Windows alerts me via the system tray or via an unknown hardware wizard that plug and play failed.
I assumed Windows ought to do the same for removable media. It's been a good decade since I tried to insert a mac floppy into a windows drive, evidently the situation hasn't improved for flash devices.
Another application may be to load contextual data using AJAX.
I'm not convinced that allowing JavaScript is a bad thing, if it enriches the experience. It needs to be sandboxed by the PDF Reader, as occurs in the web browser. Now in this case the reader was at fault, so they need to revisit their security model.
Forget touch screens for info kiosks, I just wish EEE and other netbook vendors would drive the price of tablets down.
Tablets are generally 1.5 - 2 times the price of a normal laptop, which prevents their mass adoption.
There's the Maemo series but the is limited by the RAM, 800x480 screen, underpowered ARM CPU and tiny/onscreen keyboard. (I have a N770)
Stick that in an Atom powered device, with a satisfactory keyboard, trackpoint as secondary input device and good battery life and you've got yourself a winner.
I haven't tried plugging in a memory card formatted with ext2fs but does Windows prompt for a driver when it finds an unknown FS or simply ignore it?
One workaround could be to multi-partition the media and expose a 100MB Fat12 partition with a filesystem driver for the other partition.
Or, a digital camera might provide a FS driver in ROM. Along with 'Show as camera', 'Show as mass storage device' it could add the option 'Show as myFS install media'.
The document contains a form from officialdom which can be printed out as usual. Alternatively the PDF viewer enables entering of data inline for online submission. Here the JavaScript may activate client-side validation or pop up contextual help.
The limitation here seems not the concept but a failure of sandboxing such as Java applets provide - suspicious activity is prevented by the applet security manager.
I was assuming he was George's brother, Ulysses W Bush.
Turns out it is Ultra-wideband, some kind of radio spectrum. Reading the wikipedia summary didn't help much but I'm no physics/electronics nerd. "UWB has been a proposed technology for use in personal area networks" and "due to the short duration of the UWB pulses, it is easier to engineer extremely high data rates".
Yes, I know I'm replying to a slightly tongue-in-cheek posting but...
Can we get some convention in the tag system? I'd recommend lowerCamelCase.
I use camel case even for files - The "Documents And Settings" and "Program Files" nuisance could have been avoided if MS had adopted such a convention.
Alignment problems in almost every single text field or label
Ah, but many of Ubuntu's userspace utilities are written in Python. Hence the developers are so used to 'spacing fascism' that, for them, a misaligned UI looks normal.:)
Where I come from the only one of your list to be genericized would be 'Coke' in deference to cola. And if there's Pepsi visible in the refrigerator or on the menu one would, naturally, order a Pepsi. (cola is some 'no name' bottle sold in the supermarkets for 1/2 the price of Coke or Pepsi)
I think you'd be in the minority with 4 screens... More power to you!
Anyway, to support *one* 22" external display - that's what HDMI ports are for. Okay, so the early generations of netbooks have old and slow Intel IGP. It won't be too long before Intel's 4500MHD or Nvidia Ion show up so that Joe Netbook-user can download and watch high def content from the internet on his HDTV.
IMHO we're only seeing the beginnings of the Atom CPU. There's already a dual core version; with time and die shrinkage we could see 4 or 8 core machines still drawing reasonable power as compared to Core 2 Duo (Perhaps powerful enough to run Eclipse!) Then again it depends on what sort of development you're doing, I guess.
Plus, I think the poster is talking about coding on the road. You can't bring your quad monitor setup down to a cafe while you're sipping a skinny soy chai latte (or whatever the netbook-generation drink these days! I'll still to a caffè macchiato)
At least where I live, historically the most popular brand was Nokia. Not because they were superior phones but because one could always rely on someone else having a charger.
Travelling overseas magnifies the problem when you have lots of different AC devices but only one conversion plug for the region's wall socket.
This way, plug your netbook into a wall socket and charge everything else, at the same time, via a USB hub.:)
As someone else mentioned, PGO might not have been enabled.
Aside from that, I'd be interested whether certain Windows-specific features such as the UI toolkit (vs Gtk) might render faster. Since firefox doesn't look particularly native, I wouldn't care if the Linux binary was linked against wine libs if it meant better performance - As long as I didn't have to jump through hoops to build it myself.:)
An example is Eclipse. At least in earlier builds, the perceived sluggishness was blamed on Gtk - users reported snappier performance on Linux when SWT was linked against fox toolkit.
Oops, I don't mean to spread FUD but this whole article was doing so; it'd be good to have empirical data to verify what is causing the performance hits.
It would be quite simple, really, for Cuba to go 100% legit.
Instead of an entry tax, every foreign national must declare on arrival a boxed copy of Windows. I'm not sure how many visitors Cuba receives a year but if that happened for a year, the rate of adoption for Windows 7 would be higher than most western countries.
Whether the MS EULA has explicit clauses on "this software may not be installed in regions for which the US has an embargo", I dunno.
Now if, instead of Windows, they modified that scheme to OLPC (One Laptop Per Cubano), every Cuban could legitimately have a netbook. The benefit for the tourist? Uncle Raul could drop the dual economy that sees Westerners being fleeced wherever they pay for goods and services in dollars instead of pesos. Plus, the goodwill of knowing they were improving the lot of the average Cuban in a material way.
Are you, amn108, planning to sponsor this FOSS work? This sort of thing could take several man years to implement...
Skepticism aside,
according to their FAQ ReactOS have begun porting a FOSS version of Windows to ARM. This would free wine from an emulation layer if the next point were pluggable into 'Windows'.
Next we need a dynamic translator. DEC had one to translate x86 to alpha, viz FX!32. Whether the owner of the copyright would be willing to release/update it and whether the target CPU is not alpha specific are open questions.
Darwine started x86-> PPC translation for wine but I don't think that was ever completed now current day Macs share the same CPU.
Building a JIT from scratch would require some sort of CPU agnostic framework to dynamically translate x86 calls to any target ISA. LLVM is a candidate here. But AFAIK LLVM's JIT isn't written for that platform. Porting LLVM to ARM would have side benefits such as running Java using Shark.
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It's a very small niche. I suspect the reason for the 'community-driven' spin-off is that Jambi has received a lukewarm response from commercial developers (who, until now, haven't had the benefit of LGPL).
Java has an extensive range of established frameworks and for UI toolkits Swing and SWT. I, and evidently Nokia, can't see the business case for adopting Jambi. Ignoring the technical details, it's much easier to assemble a team of experienced Swing developers.
I'm a Java developer by trade. If a project I worked on made the decision to use a Qt based frontend, I'd be inclined to back the mature C++ version (rather than an unsupported side-project), while using Java EE on the server as necessary.
Beware the Java-Cocoa experiment on OS X. Sorry to spread FUD but I think the community project will be limited to hobbyists only.
Don't single out minuscule rises in temperature... The real issue here is rain, or lack thereof. As the poster you replied to mentioned, the area has been in a state of drought far beyond the normal cycle. no rain == dry areas.
The reality is the rainfall patterns in southern Australia have significantly changed, even in the last 20 years since I was a kid.
For fire-prone areas, this may mean it's not a safe idea to repopulate communities if the lessened projected rainfall for the next 20, 50 or 100 years says that the fire danger is significantly higher.
Perhaps the rains will return but the signs are their that we should expect no great swing back to 'normal' climate in Victoria for the foreseeable future. Now call it man made or a natural cycle in the earth's history but this is climate change and it's real!
No I wasn't kidding, just asking what I thought was a reasonable question for a 'modern' desktop OS.
Whenever I plug in an unknown USB device, Windows alerts me via the system tray or via an unknown hardware wizard that plug and play failed.
I assumed Windows ought to do the same for removable media. It's been a good decade since I tried to insert a mac floppy into a windows drive, evidently the situation hasn't improved for flash devices.
Indeed. The way voting for the senate works in this country, he virtually has a job for life.
I'll take your word for it.
Another application may be to load contextual data using AJAX.
I'm not convinced that allowing JavaScript is a bad thing, if it enriches the experience. It needs to be sandboxed by the PDF Reader, as occurs in the web browser. Now in this case the reader was at fault, so they need to revisit their security model.
You must be new here. :)
But, "Sue" is a boy's name ?
Sean Penn just won an Oscar for a character defending gay rights in the 1970s.
Seems like society hasn't advanced much in three decades.
Forget touch screens for info kiosks, I just wish EEE and other netbook vendors would drive the price of tablets down.
Tablets are generally 1.5 - 2 times the price of a normal laptop, which prevents their mass adoption.
There's the Maemo series but the is limited by the RAM, 800x480 screen, underpowered ARM CPU and tiny/onscreen keyboard. (I have a N770)
Stick that in an Atom powered device, with a satisfactory keyboard, trackpoint as secondary input device and good battery life and you've got yourself a winner.
Just brainstorming some workarounds here...
I haven't tried plugging in a memory card formatted with ext2fs but does Windows prompt for a driver when it finds an unknown FS or simply ignore it?
One workaround could be to multi-partition the media and expose a 100MB Fat12 partition with a filesystem driver for the other partition.
Or, a digital camera might provide a FS driver in ROM. Along with 'Show as camera', 'Show as mass storage device' it could add the option 'Show as myFS install media'.
Perhaps a little confusing still for Grandma...
Google's browser uses the same rendering technology (WebKit) with a distinct JavaScript engine.
Could it be that no comparisons are made against Chrome because
V8 vs Nitro performance... perhaps a car analogy is needed here? :)
Well here's a use case:
The document contains a form from officialdom which can be printed out as usual. Alternatively the PDF viewer enables entering of data inline for online submission. Here the JavaScript may activate client-side validation or pop up contextual help.
The limitation here seems not the concept but a failure of sandboxing such as Java applets provide - suspicious activity is prevented by the applet security manager.
I was assuming he was George's brother, Ulysses W Bush.
Turns out it is Ultra-wideband, some kind of radio spectrum. Reading the wikipedia summary didn't help much but I'm no physics/electronics nerd. "UWB has been a proposed technology for use in personal area networks" and "due to the short duration of the UWB pulses, it is easier to engineer extremely high data rates".
Yes, I know I'm replying to a slightly tongue-in-cheek posting but...
Can we get some convention in the tag system? I'd recommend lowerCamelCase.
I use camel case even for files - The "Documents And Settings" and "Program Files" nuisance could have been avoided if MS had adopted such a convention.
Ah, but many of Ubuntu's userspace utilities are written in Python. :)
Hence the developers are so used to 'spacing fascism' that, for them, a misaligned UI looks normal.
No, but they are Ringo and Paul's record company. So just as Apple took Apple to court, perhaps Psion do have a point.
As opposed to tissue, photocopier, cotton bud?
Must be a US thing...
Where I come from the only one of your list to be genericized would be 'Coke' in deference to cola. And if there's Pepsi visible in the refrigerator or on the menu one would, naturally, order a Pepsi. (cola is some 'no name' bottle sold in the supermarkets for 1/2 the price of Coke or Pepsi)
I think you'd be in the minority with 4 screens... More power to you!
Anyway, to support *one* 22" external display - that's what HDMI ports are for. Okay, so the early generations of netbooks have old and slow Intel IGP. It won't be too long before Intel's 4500MHD or Nvidia Ion show up so that Joe Netbook-user can download and watch high def content from the internet on his HDTV.
IMHO we're only seeing the beginnings of the Atom CPU. There's already a dual core version; with time and die shrinkage we could see 4 or 8 core machines still drawing reasonable power as compared to Core 2 Duo (Perhaps powerful enough to run Eclipse!) Then again it depends on what sort of development you're doing, I guess.
Plus, I think the poster is talking about coding on the road. You can't bring your quad monitor setup down to a cafe while you're sipping a skinny soy chai latte (or whatever the netbook-generation drink these days! I'll still to a caffè macchiato)
Yay!
At least where I live, historically the most popular brand was Nokia. Not because they were superior phones but because one could always rely on someone else having a charger.
Travelling overseas magnifies the problem when you have lots of different AC devices but only one conversion plug for the region's wall socket.
This way, plug your netbook into a wall socket and charge everything else, at the same time, via a USB hub. :)
Since folks on Slashdot seem to like car analogies, I'll just mention that Red Cars Go Faster and assume that the same law applies for routers.
Yes, indeed. You can even run it under Linux.
Grab a $50 USB adapter and the aforementioned rabbit ears, hey presto this 'digital TV' appears on your PC.
As someone else mentioned, PGO might not have been enabled.
:)
An example is Eclipse. At least in earlier builds, the perceived sluggishness was blamed on Gtk - users reported snappier performance on Linux when SWT was linked against fox toolkit.
Aside from that, I'd be interested whether certain Windows-specific features such as the UI toolkit (vs Gtk) might render faster. Since firefox doesn't look particularly native, I wouldn't care if the Linux binary was linked against wine libs if it meant better performance - As long as I didn't have to jump through hoops to build it myself.
Oops, I don't mean to spread FUD but this whole article was doing so; it'd be good to have empirical data to verify what is causing the performance hits.
CowboyNeal (former poll option) announced back in Feb 2007 that Nova was on the way.
So, as far as the GNU army marching into Havana, they're already there. Cuba and RMS are old pals.
It would be quite simple, really, for Cuba to go 100% legit.
Instead of an entry tax, every foreign national must declare on arrival a boxed copy of Windows. I'm not sure how many visitors Cuba receives a year but if that happened for a year, the rate of adoption for Windows 7 would be higher than most western countries.
Whether the MS EULA has explicit clauses on "this software may not be installed in regions for which the US has an embargo", I dunno.
Now if, instead of Windows, they modified that scheme to OLPC (One Laptop Per Cubano), every Cuban could legitimately have a netbook. The benefit for the tourist? Uncle Raul could drop the dual economy that sees Westerners being fleeced wherever they pay for goods and services in dollars instead of pesos. Plus, the goodwill of knowing they were improving the lot of the average Cuban in a material way.
Are you, amn108, planning to sponsor this FOSS work? This sort of thing could take several man years to implement...
Skepticism aside,