which are mostly cloud providers serving html+css content. Why would I need a smartphone 'app' when their mobile webpage would prove perfectly adequate?
distros get security updates all the time, without articles.
I came here expecting to find that Ubuntu had partnered with the r-pi foundation to produce a range of smartphones for the Ubuntu touch platform using the innards of a raspberry pi SoC with blob-free firmware (no libhybris) following the reverse engineering efforts of Videocore and the like. (much like TI hoped to attract developer interest with the Beagleboard when OMAP ruled the smartphone landscape)
My advice to Donald would be that if he doesn't like the off-shore turbines he could plant a forest to block out the view. If his golf business suffers then he could then convert it into a game reserve!
My first impression of the windswept bucolic views of Scotland is,
"Why aren't there any fucking trees?"
Was Alba always barren of flora or did cutting down the forests in ancient times for firewood change the landscape forever into eroded coastal dunes where nothing will grow?
Why not offshore US workers to somewhere cheaper? I'm surprised no one's proactively creating a tech hub in Latin America,
Let's say Alphabet, or some other large corp, are working on a new project that will take 3 years and employ 100 people. But the budget can only support 60 people over 2 years.
So they rent an office space in, say, Peru where the weather's fine 9 months of the year and language isn't a problem because everyone in California speaks Spanish anyway, right? So you're only a couple of hours time difference and everyone can fly home to visit their folks once a fortnight because airfares are cheap. We can only pay you 70% of what you'd normally get but that's okay because the cost of living is a fraction of back home and you get a cultural experience. All that tax I hear American corporations don't want to repatriate can be invested in infrastructure in the host country which benefits foreign relations.
If you're a kid fresh out of a 4 year degree and you can't find work in the Bay Area, wouldn't you jump at the chance?
If that seems far-fetched, I once met a beautiful Swedish blonde in Barcelona (but that's another story!) Her company in Sweden decided it was cheaper to relocate a couple of hundred Swedes to Spain and rent out an office than do business in their home country.
The Mozilla t2mobile Flame I'm using is a dual core but otherwise the specs are similar though perhaps the BLU supports more 4G bands being a slightly newer Qualcomm.
As I understand the rumours, Lumia represents the last of the Nokia IP and MS will release their own 'Surface' branded devices in 2016. I'd think they'd see out that transition first, particularly with Universal App and Win 10 integration before culling WP altogether.
That said, yes it does look likely of a complete Android/iOS duopoly within years with respect to the alt-os graveyard.
Not a brand I've heard of, no. I'll take a look.:)
In Australia it's mainly the international GSM brands like Samsung, LG, HTC etc plus Apple and MS with Chinese makers Huawei and ZTE targeting bargain pre-paid burner phones one buys at a supermarket.
'Buying American' would have some appeal in comparison to a similarly specced generic brand off a dodgy Chinese website if it meant aftermarket support in the form of OS updates and international warranties,
The Flame was a developer phone that shipped for around $US170 and wasn't about price but providing a reference platform for Mozilla employees and curious app-writing public such as myself.
Contrast that with shipping consumer hardware, priced at that reviewers saw with 320 Ã-- 480 screens, Cortex A5 and 256MB RAM or less.
- handsets were garbage, aimed at the $35 range. Android or iOS wouldn't run on such hardware smoothly. - software wasn't mature when most of the reviews came out in 2014. But try running a v2.5 nightly on Flame or a spare nexus 4/5 device and the experience is vastly improved from when I purchased my Flame last year.
The latest Nexus phones by Huawei and LG have priced themselves out of the market, for those of us not willing to spend $500+ on bling. Particularly brutal with the current $AU exchange rate. I'd consider buying a 2nd hand Nexus 4 if only it had a user-replaceable battery to extend its life by another couple of years but no.
So then you're in the land of vendor crapware, Chinese spyware (if purchased online) or carrier bloatware. So the solution then is flashing your device with an unofficial cyanogenmod port if it's not one of their 'blessed' models that still receives updates. That is if your handset vendor doesn't boobytrap its bootloader (Moto) or if your arch is still supported (armv6). Which all things being equal, you might find most things work smoothly except the video record feature is borked.
That's been my experience, anyway... Oh and I can't stand Chrome the mobile web browser, so I'd just be installing Firefox anyway, which was the motivation for running Mozilla's own OS...
Maybe things have changed in Android land but twice bitten thrice shy.
Windows Phone is a great unknown but I think Continuum is worth exploring since I have a spare LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse and for much casual computing use (e.g. my university studies in humanities), all I need is a web browser and MS Office. (And yes i have several x86 machines on the desk here booting Windows and Linux for specialist tasks, so it's not like I don't appreciate 'real' software)
My Mozilla Flame has been my daily phone for nearly 18 months. The initial builds (v1.3) weren't great for usability but things got pretty stable around the 2.1 release. I use the phone as a phone, with a killer web browser, so 'apps' weren't an issue. But the writing has been on the wall for a while, with feature implementation slowing to a crawl over the past few months on the nightly builds.
IoT with a javascript API derived from Firefox OS has already been done in the form of JanOS.io thus a couple of hackers are ahead of the curve...
I have no desire to go back to Android and an iPhone is out of my price range, so I guess I'll cross over to the dark side and get a cheap Lumia when the current handset dies.:(
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Microsoft Surface had Apple worried enough for Tim Cook to announce the iPad Pro.
So 'market driven' is a salient point; the cannibalisation has begun.
Oh and Apple once produced a touchscreen laptop with a stylus running a tablet OS. The eMate 300 was 18 1/2 years ahead of its time.
Well minus the x86 processor, that's the direction Continuum is headed?
The murmurs I heard were to wait for the Surface Phone coming in 2016, designed by the same team that do the tablets.
Not in the stock manufacturer ROM.
If one buys on a 24 month plan however, carriers will often add their own selection of apps, including facebook.
which are mostly cloud providers serving html+css content. Why would I need a smartphone 'app' when their mobile webpage would prove perfectly adequate?
distros get security updates all the time, without articles.
I came here expecting to find that Ubuntu had partnered with the r-pi foundation to produce a range of smartphones for the Ubuntu touch platform using the innards of a raspberry pi SoC with blob-free firmware (no libhybris) following the reverse engineering efforts of Videocore and the like. (much like TI hoped to attract developer interest with the Beagleboard when OMAP ruled the smartphone landscape)
Now *that* would be newsworthy.
Mention rPi2 AND Ubuntu for double points. :)
Thanks, very interesting.
My advice to Donald would be that if he doesn't like the off-shore turbines he could plant a forest to block out the view. If his golf business suffers then he could then convert it into a game reserve!
My first impression of the windswept bucolic views of Scotland is,
"Why aren't there any fucking trees?"
Was Alba always barren of flora or did cutting down the forests in ancient times for firewood change the landscape forever into eroded coastal dunes where nothing will grow?
As I posted earlier, there was a solution for *nix known as nspluginwrapper.
Once upon a time there was a project called nspluginwrapper that allowed 64bit Firefox on Linux to run 32bit plugins such as Flash.
I think it needs a new maintainer because non-Windows operating systems made the transition to 64 bit browsers some time ago.
I'm sure there would be plenty on here volunteering for a bodily inspection by Dana Scully!
His dad is Cuban.
Why not offshore US workers to somewhere cheaper? I'm surprised no one's proactively creating a tech hub in Latin America,
Let's say Alphabet, or some other large corp, are working on a new project that will take 3 years and employ 100 people. But the budget can only support 60 people over 2 years.
So they rent an office space in, say, Peru where the weather's fine 9 months of the year and language isn't a problem because everyone in California speaks Spanish anyway, right? So you're only a couple of hours time difference and everyone can fly home to visit their folks once a fortnight because airfares are cheap. We can only pay you 70% of what you'd normally get but that's okay because the cost of living is a fraction of back home and you get a cultural experience. All that tax I hear American corporations don't want to repatriate can be invested in infrastructure in the host country which benefits foreign relations.
If you're a kid fresh out of a 4 year degree and you can't find work in the Bay Area, wouldn't you jump at the chance?
If that seems far-fetched, I once met a beautiful Swedish blonde in Barcelona (but that's another story!) Her company in Sweden decided it was cheaper to relocate a couple of hundred Swedes to Spain and rent out an office than do business in their home country.
The Mozilla t2mobile Flame I'm using is a dual core but otherwise the specs are similar though perhaps the BLU supports more 4G bands being a slightly newer Qualcomm.
Cheers, again.
As I understand the rumours, Lumia represents the last of the Nokia IP and MS will release their own 'Surface' branded devices in 2016. I'd think they'd see out that transition first, particularly with Universal App and Win 10 integration before culling WP altogether.
That said, yes it does look likely of a complete Android/iOS duopoly within years with respect to the alt-os graveyard.
Not a brand I've heard of, no. I'll take a look. :)
In Australia it's mainly the international GSM brands like Samsung, LG, HTC etc plus Apple and MS with Chinese makers Huawei and ZTE targeting bargain pre-paid burner phones one buys at a supermarket.
'Buying American' would have some appeal in comparison to a similarly specced generic brand off a dodgy Chinese website if it meant aftermarket support in the form of OS updates and international warranties,
The Flame was a developer phone that shipped for around $US170 and wasn't about price but providing a reference platform for Mozilla employees and curious app-writing public such as myself.
Contrast that with shipping consumer hardware, priced at that reviewers saw with 320 Ã-- 480 screens, Cortex A5 and 256MB RAM or less.
Well I would but recent announcements about redundancies and debt restructuring don't fill me with confidence they'll be around in 12 months time.
2 problems.
- handsets were garbage, aimed at the $35 range. Android or iOS wouldn't run on such hardware smoothly.
- software wasn't mature when most of the reviews came out in 2014. But try running a v2.5 nightly on Flame or a spare nexus 4/5 device and the experience is vastly improved from when I purchased my Flame last year.
A variety of reasons.
The latest Nexus phones by Huawei and LG have priced themselves out of the market, for those of us not willing to spend $500+ on bling. Particularly brutal with the current $AU exchange rate. I'd consider buying a 2nd hand Nexus 4 if only it had a user-replaceable battery to extend its life by another couple of years but no.
So then you're in the land of vendor crapware, Chinese spyware (if purchased online) or carrier bloatware. So the solution then is flashing your device with an unofficial cyanogenmod port if it's not one of their 'blessed' models that still receives updates. That is if your handset vendor doesn't boobytrap its bootloader (Moto) or if your arch is still supported (armv6). Which all things being equal, you might find most things work smoothly except the video record feature is borked.
That's been my experience, anyway... Oh and I can't stand Chrome the mobile web browser, so I'd just be installing Firefox anyway, which was the motivation for running Mozilla's own OS...
Maybe things have changed in Android land but twice bitten thrice shy.
Windows Phone is a great unknown but I think Continuum is worth exploring since I have a spare LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse and for much casual computing use (e.g. my university studies in humanities), all I need is a web browser and MS Office. (And yes i have several x86 machines on the desk here booting Windows and Linux for specialist tasks, so it's not like I don't appreciate 'real' software)
(I have a Nokia 770 in a storage box)
My Mozilla Flame has been my daily phone for nearly 18 months. The initial builds (v1.3) weren't great for usability but things got pretty stable around the 2.1 release. I use the phone as a phone, with a killer web browser, so 'apps' weren't an issue. But the writing has been on the wall for a while, with feature implementation slowing to a crawl over the past few months on the nightly builds.
IoT with a javascript API derived from Firefox OS has already been done in the form of JanOS.io thus a couple of hackers are ahead of the curve...
I have no desire to go back to Android and an iPhone is out of my price range, so I guess I'll cross over to the dark side and get a cheap Lumia when the current handset dies. :(
A set-top box for grandma where she can use the same OS on her TV that she already has on her phone?
The walled garden of Google Play sounds simpler than explaining the intricacies of dpkg to a non-nerd.
Conservatives who control oil, natural gas and coal seem to wield power and money; are they not elite?
AGW won't necessarily imply chocolate rationing.
As the current cacao-growing regions become less productive, new regions might become suitable for planting.
Requiring, of course, foresight from confectionery corporations to take a long term view of agriculture...
yes, i read the article.
He's still a wanker I wouldn't sit next to at a pub.