Assuming YOU actually want to live in a mega-city of Sydney or Melbourne with 6-7million people by 2050. The traffic would be horrific and neither side of politics has the vision to create a subterranean railway network (metro/subway/tube) required by the great cities of NY/London/Paris/Madrid/Berlin/Tokyo etc that do have high density living. One with party building only roads, roads and more roads welcome to your dystopian future.
I'd vote for any party with a clear vision for decentralisation. e.g. Victoria has an area much bigger than England but if Melbourne is to London then there is no other population centre of more than 200,000.
So, yes, we need to start again. If Canberra can rise out of nothing to grow to almost 400K in a century, urban planners can certainly construct other population centres that doesn't involve an extra 2 million people within 40 years added to an existing capital city.
All my devices, a NUC, a Mozilla Flame and a Kobo run some variant of Linux. There's a laptop running XP donated to a family member...
they're still the evil empire but competition is a good thing if it forces Google and Apple to innovate. And not using any Apple/Google OSes myself, I'm not convinced separate form factors and ecosystems for Chrome OS/Android or OS X/iOS are necessarily the way forward.
So if I did ever buy a tablet, it'd probably be one with an open bootloader capable of quad-booting Debian/Firefox OS/Android/Windows as the mood suited. A stylus and a keyboard could be handy.
Which MS are actively addressing with their app-translation services for Windows 10.
MS are at least listening to customers complaining about a viable app ecosystem. Whether that proves any more successful than Android emulation in BB 10, who knows.
Yeah a Core i5 is probably overkill for a tablet. I'd be keener to read benchmarks with the non-Pro surface 3 boasting a flagship Atom X7 SoC designed specifically for purpose.
Sorry but even after reading the f*ing article, ACM is still a non-obvious acronym for those who weren't aware of it. It's unclear why ordinary Cubans should give 2 shits about conformity.
After a decade of reading Slashdot, I'd never heard of ACM.
I don't think SpiderMonkey/Gecko are the villains here. Specs are in order to reach a price point.
Profit margins on a $25 device are zilch, so manufacturers need to cut corners by releasing products unsuited to a 2015 era OS. Try running iOS 8 or Android 5 on a handset with 128MB and a Cortex A5 CPU - that's a phone released in 2014 with specs equivalent to an iPhone 1 or a Nokia 97 from last decade.
By comparison on better hardware - Performance on their reference phone, the Flame, is decent. ZTE are releasing the Open-L this month with a quad core Snapdragon 210. Hardly iPhone 6 territory but still - The previous model has been retailing for about $US77 here in Australia. When my Flame breaks I'll willingly shell out the dough...
You download a bundle from the firefox marketplace and it installs on your device. Offline. Such an app will thus use no more 3G data than a corresponding app for iOS or Android.
The video from the JSConf is fun. A "software guy" smashes open his €60 phone to extract the main board, fully scriptable from JavaScript accessible via the Firefox development tools.
This could see a hobbyist after-market for phones with cracked screens... Built in wifi, bluetooth, GPS, 4G, camera etc.
Next Australians will be stopped at airport security for smuggling.
Security Goon: "We detected a suspicious dark slurry in your luggage" Bloke: "Strewth mate, I'm not stupid enough to bring drugs into a country, with the tragic deaths of Chan and Sukumaran..." SG: "The canister gave off a salty odour. We fed a sample to our narcotics canine Charlie, who is now convulsing on the floor" Bloke: "Sorry um that's just my Vegemite. I have it on toast for breakfast" SG: "You eat that stuff? Surely not!" Bloke: "Honest to Warnie, I swear. Got any bread on ya?" SG: "(sniffs and dry retches) No one could stomach that!" Security Goon 2: "Chemical analysis reveals a high concentration of morphine. Lock him up for ten years"
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I have an iMX5 in an e-reader device, for which it has custom display support.
So I'm wondering if these latest chips will make it to the next-gen Rakuten/Amazon devices.
Dan might, i was referring to Abbott.
I still doubt we'll ever see doncaster rail under Labor though.
Assuming YOU actually want to live in a mega-city of Sydney or Melbourne with 6-7million people by 2050. The traffic would be horrific and neither side of politics has the vision to create a subterranean railway network (metro/subway/tube) required by the great cities of NY/London/Paris/Madrid/Berlin/Tokyo etc that do have high density living. One with party building only roads, roads and more roads welcome to your dystopian future.
I'd vote for any party with a clear vision for decentralisation. e.g. Victoria has an area much bigger than England but if Melbourne is to London then there is no other population centre of more than 200,000.
So, yes, we need to start again. If Canberra can rise out of nothing to grow to almost 400K in a century, urban planners can certainly construct other population centres that doesn't involve an extra 2 million people within 40 years added to an existing capital city.
Pretty quickly. The Browser Wars are over; Chrome won.
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Ah sorry must only be those fancy international planes
i generally fly across hemispheres
Planes come with USB ports. You need one of those new-fangled low power Windows devices that charges via USB! :)
All my devices, a NUC, a Mozilla Flame and a Kobo run some variant of Linux. There's a laptop running XP donated to a family member...
they're still the evil empire but competition is a good thing if it forces Google and Apple to innovate. And not using any Apple/Google OSes myself, I'm not convinced separate form factors and ecosystems for Chrome OS/Android or OS X/iOS are necessarily the way forward.
So if I did ever buy a tablet, it'd probably be one with an open bootloader capable of quad-booting Debian/Firefox OS/Android/Windows as the mood suited. A stylus and a keyboard could be handy.
It's both, as evidenced by retailers selling them sans keyboard, as a hidden optional extra adding to the checkout price.
Which MS are actively addressing with their app-translation services for Windows 10.
MS are at least listening to customers complaining about a viable app ecosystem. Whether that proves any more successful than Android emulation in BB 10, who knows.
Yeah a Core i5 is probably overkill for a tablet. I'd be keener to read benchmarks with the non-Pro surface 3 boasting a flagship Atom X7 SoC designed specifically for purpose.
'antiquated'? Well Windows 10 ain't out yet...
There's a niche for fanless low powered devices. From HTPC to those in studio apartments who want to run background tasks overnight while sleeping.
The latest Core M and 14nm Atoms delivering quad cores at 5W are what I'm hoping trickles down to a $150 NUC or Brix. Just add RAM and storage...
"Coal is good for humanity"
Inaction is a political issue.
Most only plan for the next election, which in my country is a mere 3 years.
Bloodsport continues to this day in the form of bullfighting.
Sorry im not from America. None of my colleagues have ever mentioned the organisation thus it carries no prestige or noteworthiness in my country.
Sorry but even after reading the f*ing article, ACM is still a non-obvious acronym for those who weren't aware of it. It's unclear why ordinary Cubans should give 2 shits about conformity.
After a decade of reading Slashdot, I'd never heard of ACM.
Many of those things are available on ARM via the popular Linux distro, Android.
Not through lack of tasting, I've eaten it in Quebec City and Ottawa.
Just that ruining chips by pouring on hot gravy and cheese curds ain't my thing.
Finally they found a use for poutine! :)
I don't think SpiderMonkey/Gecko are the villains here. Specs are in order to reach a price point.
Profit margins on a $25 device are zilch, so manufacturers need to cut corners by releasing products unsuited to a 2015 era OS. Try running iOS 8 or Android 5 on a handset with 128MB and a Cortex A5 CPU - that's a phone released in 2014 with specs equivalent to an iPhone 1 or a Nokia 97 from last decade.
By comparison on better hardware - Performance on their reference phone, the Flame, is decent. ZTE are releasing the Open-L this month with a quad core Snapdragon 210. Hardly iPhone 6 territory but still - The previous model has been retailing for about $US77 here in Australia. When my Flame breaks I'll willingly shell out the dough...
These aren't your grandfather's web applications.
You download a bundle from the firefox marketplace and it installs on your device. Offline. Such an app will thus use no more 3G data than a corresponding app for iOS or Android.
The Z1 comes with 768MB of RAM which is 24 times the requirement here - you accuse Google of bloat?
The video from the JSConf is fun. A "software guy" smashes open his €60 phone to extract the main board, fully scriptable from JavaScript accessible via the Firefox development tools.
This could see a hobbyist after-market for phones with cracked screens... Built in wifi, bluetooth, GPS, 4G, camera etc.
Looks like Logo to me - instructs the turtle to move in the most recent direction of a length specified by a random natural number.
Next Australians will be stopped at airport security for smuggling.
Security Goon: "We detected a suspicious dark slurry in your luggage"
Bloke: "Strewth mate, I'm not stupid enough to bring drugs into a country, with the tragic deaths of Chan and Sukumaran..."
SG: "The canister gave off a salty odour. We fed a sample to our narcotics canine Charlie, who is now convulsing on the floor"
Bloke: "Sorry um that's just my Vegemite. I have it on toast for breakfast"
SG: "You eat that stuff? Surely not!"
Bloke: "Honest to Warnie, I swear. Got any bread on ya?"
SG: "(sniffs and dry retches) No one could stomach that!"
Security Goon 2: "Chemical analysis reveals a high concentration of morphine. Lock him up for ten years"