Where 'y' is a typographic substitute for the olde English letter thorn, I'd personally steer clear of anything named 'The Sod':-)
Coming from a JVM background, from the familiarity p.o.v. I'd probably prefer to write web services in Scala but certainly faylang is an interesting diversion from dynamically typed compile-to-JS languages,
Unless you bother to switch your USB connection to ultra-tinfoil-hat 'charge only' mode, they possibly have device-id related info when you plug a phone into their USB sockets.
Since I don't have a car in which to plug a USB charger into a cigarette lighter socket, I often slip a charger into my backpack when commuting. Starbucks isn't ubiquitous in my country but other cafes don't seem to mind if I ask for free electricity for charging.
USB is quite common in some airport lounges these days. The freedom to just carrying around a usb cable would be an advantage - rolls up into a jacket pocket without the lumpy bits of an associated wall wart.
Obviously may require the expensive services of a certified electrician to replace the face plate on your wall socket with one that includes a USB port.(5 min job but at least where I'm from they charge a flat fee for a call-out)
They have merely attracted the interest of *Indian* entrepreneurs to produce phones for the *Indian* market. Nothing stopping these guys from certifying these phones to worldwide standards and opening a webstore to ship internationally. Or partnering with Walmart to import 20,000 of them.
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hard-coding user interface strings is a bad smell, even if you're just programming for one regional language.
If the class migrates beyond 'Hello, World!', learning best practices from an early age is a good thing, surely.
Java2D has long been 3D-rendered using OpenGL or Direct3D. X.org's Glamor aims to unify 2D with OpenGL.
Where 'y' is a typographic substitute for the olde English letter thorn, I'd personally steer clear of anything named 'The Sod' :-)
Coming from a JVM background, from the familiarity p.o.v. I'd probably prefer to write web services in Scala but certainly faylang is an interesting diversion from dynamically typed compile-to-JS languages,
It was an opportunity to monetize KDE through hardware sales and Mr Seigo seems to have sunk his own savings into the venture.
Whether KDE has the resources to refocus on porting to existing devices such as Nexus, Galaxy Note and Surface Pro tablets remains to be seen.
Strange, I was thinking of buying an MS Surface Pro 3 and putting KDE on it!
Squares of prime numbers.
ssh on an android phone sounds masochistic.
Get a laptop and tether!
if Google wired up Havana with FTTP, Uncle Raul might see a rush of technological refugees from down under.
Sure blame the Floridanos but isn't the problem the agricultural sector?
Stop making fructose and ethanol from government subsidized maize.
Pay Mexican farmers a decent price for corn and you might see less 'illegals' crossing the border. Kickstart the Cuban economy by buying their sugar.
also known as the Republic of China.
Wind turbines kill birds. :)
Some people.
My friend from Norway is paranoid about Global Warming slowing the gulf stream and leading to a localised ice age.
2 Chinas, 2 Congos and a Macedonia that the Greek government refuses to endorse.
I thought he was dead.
Didn't Seth Rogen shoot him?
It's summer in February, you insensitive clod!
(At least in my hemisphere.)
HTML, CSS and JS aren't proprietary.
Mozilla attempt to standardize any JS 'native' libraries to the w3c in collaboration with other vendors. Apache Cordova fills in the rest.
This is nothing like ActiveX.
It's HTML5, the web, the universal runtime.
Anything they do is proposed as a w3C standard, so other platforms such as Tizen, webOS and Chromium OS can share ideas.
'work properly'? Naturally you ought to test against other browsers and/or use 'polyfill' libraries such as Phonegap.
Well, Firefox OS doesn't include thunderbird, including instead an HTML5 'app' for mail.
I've only played with it in the simulator but with a simple css reskin, they could add a multi-pane view for tablets and the desktop. :)
jejune, must remember that one...
In the mid 80s, my school forced us to read The Hobbit. It bored the shit out of me and my 12yo classmates.
15-20 years later and Peter Jackson becomes a zillionaire. After wading through Tolkien as a pre-teen, I had no curiosity for any of the movies.
My loss, I guess. *Hands in geek card*
Unless you bother to switch your USB connection to ultra-tinfoil-hat 'charge only' mode, they possibly have device-id related info when you plug a phone into their USB sockets.
Since I don't have a car in which to plug a USB charger into a cigarette lighter socket, I often slip a charger into my backpack when commuting. Starbucks isn't ubiquitous in my country but other cafes don't seem to mind if I ask for free electricity for charging.
USB is quite common in some airport lounges these days. The freedom to just carrying around a usb cable would be an advantage - rolls up into a jacket pocket without the lumpy bits of an associated wall wart.
Obviously may require the expensive services of a certified electrician to replace the face plate on your wall socket with one that includes a USB port.(5 min job but at least where I'm from they charge a flat fee for a call-out)
Ah, for the OS? None of those sub $100 Android devices, by definition, come with Firefox OS preinstalled.
If you're asking why anyone would be curious to try Mozilla's platform, well that's a different question entirely.
It's a phone built for Indians by Indians. If you reside outside of India, you'll have to find someone within that country to post it to you.
Mozilla aren't selling these.
They have merely attracted the interest of *Indian* entrepreneurs to produce phones for the *Indian* market. Nothing stopping these guys from certifying these phones to worldwide standards and opening a webstore to ship internationally. Or partnering with Walmart to import 20,000 of them.