I was thinking South America, high in the Andes away from the tsunamis. Far away enough from the crazies with nukes and in altitude away from toxic particles. Just don't try the seafood from the lowlands.
what's happening here is creating a binding to Javascript. Which, language choice aside, is little more absurd than creating bindings to anything other interpreted virtual machine language such as Java or Python - which no doubt exist for rPi.
'core business' - hardly, but if Panasonic and others seem willing to continue funding development of FxOS via smart TVs and the like...
And if Mozilla receives funding, specifically, *to develop* Firefox OS?
Phones may have struggled to define a market dominated by Android but Panasonic are backing Firefox OS for their televisions (competing with LG's webOS which was formerly developed by Palm)
I would encourage the Mozilla team to maybe put their weight behind making Firefox a better browser. Are there no more avenues to making it a bit faster, maybe a bit less resource-hungry, maybe make is more secure?
Running Gecko/Servo and Spidermonkey on low-end ARM hardware will require optimizations that will feed back into desktop performance?
mouses aren't much to haul and I personally can't stand notebook trackpads.
plenty of portable keyboards with bluetooth. Though I must say, I'd be keen for IBM/Lenovo to resurrect the butterfly keyboard found on the Thinkpad 701, complete with clitmouse.
'battery life' - Who said anything about being unplugged? Desktop mode is achieved through docking to an existing keyboard, mouse and display. Check out the Continuum Dock...
Not everyone needs the mobility of a laptop but equally not everyone needs or wants a dedicated PC when phones have sufficient computing resources for many tasks.
Lumia represents the last of the Nokia/Elop era, whereas a "Surface Phone" is done in-house?
x86 compatibility, perhaps. If they cram an Atom into a phone then when docked you've got a desktop PC in your pocket, with the full win32 back catalogue.
Performance wasn't an issue for me on their developer phone, the Flame. (dual core Cortex A7 with 1GB RAM)
So I would imagine it would be quite swift with the specs you crave. Unfortunately it was only ever marketed to developing world markets to compete with 'burner' feature phones and with some really underpowered hardware.
Open source graphics drivers for the platform are being developed for X11/Mesa/Wayland, so graphics shouldn't be too shabby and certainly more open than the average ARM smartphone.
micro-usb hubs with card readers, USB on-the-go and HDMI outputs (MHL or Slimport depending on the phone SoC) can be purchased online for around $US10-15. As a holiday project I've purchased one, though Santa's postal service elves haven't delivered it yet.:)
The 'dumpster' phone promises a treasure trove - cracked screens with worn out batteries might attain a new lease of life if powered by mains and hooked up to a mouse, keyboard and expandable storage.
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Well I guess it has overlap with rich conservatives who work in IT but I'm not sure the relevance to a tech forum.
Rudolph the red-nosed red ear?
Sorry, I'm not from the USA but what the phuck is a phorbes and why should I care?
even Rupert's paywalled rags don't get upvoted to the front page as regularly...
I was thinking South America, high in the Andes away from the tsunamis. Far away enough from the crazies with nukes and in altitude away from toxic particles. Just don't try the seafood from the lowlands.
The KDE series largely tracks the Qt version, so
KDE 3 - Qt3
KDE 4 - Qt4
KDE 5 - Qt5
Well it's a Linux distro for ARM, with a UI rendered by a web engine which for some may seem less bloat than NDK/Dalvik
Competing HTML5 platforms: Tizen (competitor Samsung's baby), webOS (LG TVs) or Chrome OS.
Firefox OS security model detailed here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Feel free to critique and advise them on the technical details but don't assume they haven't considered security implications already.
what's happening here is creating a binding to Javascript. Which, language choice aside, is little more absurd than creating bindings to anything other interpreted virtual machine language such as Java or Python - which no doubt exist for rPi.
'core business' - hardly, but if Panasonic and others seem willing to continue funding development of FxOS via smart TVs and the like...
And if Mozilla receives funding, specifically, *to develop* Firefox OS?
Phones may have struggled to define a market dominated by Android but Panasonic are backing Firefox OS for their televisions (competing with LG's webOS which was formerly developed by Palm)
Running Gecko/Servo and Spidermonkey on low-end ARM hardware will require optimizations that will feed back into desktop performance?
mouses aren't much to haul and I personally can't stand notebook trackpads.
plenty of portable keyboards with bluetooth. Though I must say, I'd be keen for IBM/Lenovo to resurrect the butterfly keyboard found on the Thinkpad 701, complete with clitmouse.
I'd be interested to know if there are architectural benefits of sticking with QNX
i.e.they've modernized it to support a smartphone stack and may have a point of difference in basing their Android runtime on a linux-free env.
Manufacturing the latest Google Nexus..
'battery life' - Who said anything about being unplugged? Desktop mode is achieved through docking to an existing keyboard, mouse and display. Check out the Continuum Dock...
Not everyone needs the mobility of a laptop but equally not everyone needs or wants a dedicated PC when phones have sufficient computing resources for many tasks.
Lumia represents the last of the Nokia/Elop era, whereas a "Surface Phone" is done in-house?
x86 compatibility, perhaps. If they cram an Atom into a phone then when docked you've got a desktop PC in your pocket, with the full win32 back catalogue.
Is it true that Episode Three was codenamed "Revenge of the Nerds" as a tribute to the 1984 classic and to Han-Shot-First neckbeards?
And remember it wasn't until the 2012 documentary Iron Sky that we had conclusive proof of a Germanic military installation.
I did have a Gingerbread 2.3.x phone and I'd prefer the Mozilla experience any day.
But I suspect, oh Anonymous Coward, that you've never tried Firefox OS 2.5
Performance wasn't an issue for me on their developer phone, the Flame. (dual core Cortex A7 with 1GB RAM)
So I would imagine it would be quite swift with the specs you crave. Unfortunately it was only ever marketed to developing world markets to compete with 'burner' feature phones and with some really underpowered hardware.
You know that Chrome can do all that, too? An operating system that even has their own OS...
If Firefox is bloated, then so is the competition.
Spoilers...
Open source graphics drivers for the platform are being developed for X11/Mesa/Wayland, so graphics shouldn't be too shabby and certainly more open than the average ARM smartphone.
To paraphrase Henry Ford,
"you can have any flavour of pi, so long as it's raspberry".
good old Eczema.
micro-usb hubs with card readers, USB on-the-go and HDMI outputs (MHL or Slimport depending on the phone SoC) can be purchased online for around $US10-15. As a holiday project I've purchased one, though Santa's postal service elves haven't delivered it yet. :)
The 'dumpster' phone promises a treasure trove - cracked screens with worn out batteries might attain a new lease of life if powered by mains and hooked up to a mouse, keyboard and expandable storage.