Haha. I never did grok command line scripting. But it's heartening I can learn more in a Slashdot discussion than in a 300 page 'Ubuntu for laypeople' paperback.:)
Did RMS ever say "Don't use Android"? Rather, the FSF has specific caveats such as:
1. "tivoisation" that RMS mentions above. Buying a phone with a locked bootloader restricts your ability to load your own kernel. Not providing a developer mode to load custom firmware or run utilities than require root also restricts freedom. 2. There's the f-droid repository for free software apps. 3. They have a campaign to write a driver for PowerVR GPUs (see also freedreno, lima) 4. Replicant is their Android distro, with the goal of removing the non-free blobs by writing replacement drivers. 5. Using a free software SDK - as mentioned on Slashdot recently regarding a license change.
With everything electronic these days, I doubt it's as much as an issue as when other countries made the switch:
A car's locale can be set to display gallons & miles or litres & km. The pump can be toggled on a per customer basis to display metric - much in the way that vending machines and ATMs have language selection. With electronic billing, receipts can be easily modified to display multiple units. Electronic signs can alternate between displaying per gallon/litre.
Yes, I'm fine with a tablet 'cover' that doubles as a keyboard and trackpad solution.
Hybrids are the technology for 2013. Witness this week's CES for examples. Some rotate the screen like the Lenovo twist, some flip like the Dell XPS Convertible, some detach like the Hp Envy. Then there's the Surface Pro, as you mentioned. These things are in Ultrabook territory but prices will come down as the novelty of a touchscreen laptop becomes the norm.
But by x86 binaries I mean legacy win32 stuff that won't run on ARM linux. e.g. my government's tax software. Can an iPad run that?
By 'half-assed x86 apps for tablets' I'm sure you're aware that Android-x86 runs on Intel, as does KDE Plasma Active and probably without too much tweaking webOS and Firefox OS.
If, as MS promises, the firmware for x86 devices isn't locked down for Windows-only, you can triple boot to your heart's content. On an ARM based system, you're at the mercy of a manufacturer that ships Android-only kernel blobs.
With netbooks declared dead during the week, so dies Windows 7 Starter with them.
The market here is the $400 Windows 8 Tablet, allowing Intel to compete with Win RT but allowing OEMs to produce high-end Core i7 convertibles at triple the price.
'Frosty Piss' being a loose anagram of First Post stating the obvious and tending to drift off towards an editor bashin' slant is probably the intent of the moderation.
The topic here is the content of the submission, viz some web forum founder's faked death - not whether the submission should have indeed made it to the story page...
Google Play isn't the only game in town. i.e. Aren't Amazon's kindles intentionally locked out of the Play store?
In that light, I suspect this crackdown is about releasing Android-compatible devices that don't pay lip service to Google. e.g. compatibility layers of BB10, Alien Dalvik etc that might funnel money away from Google to a platform specific app store.
I don't know if any solution that's not Android *does* incorporate elements of the SDK. But you can imagine if, say, a windows phone vendor decided to base a compatibility layer around ikvm to translate android calls into their.Net equivalents using libraries Google had written within the Android SDK.
Remember it's on your total bill, so even if everything in your $50 shopping trolley is 97 cents, you'll still only be overcharged a maximum of 3 cents. Swings and roundabouts - on your next transaction they may refund 2 cents...
In Australia we removed the 1 & 2 cent coins from circulation. So it came as a surprise that they bothered to ever mint them in the eurozone nearly a decade later.
Agreed, since Tizen, Ubuntu, Android, Chromium OS, Firefox OS, Mer, webOS etc are all Linux based...
The Cortex A-15 has hardware virtualization. Pair this with KVM and you run multiple OSes simultaneously.
Run your android dev environment on your Ubuntu host (connected to keyboard/mouse/screen) and deploy on the same hardware to your Android instance. Read a PDF using Okular (Plasma Active) while checking your email within your workplace-supplied Chromium OS instance.
The power of multiple OSes on the same handset is to appease corporate IT with respect to bring-your-own-device. Buy the dual-sim model and they can potentially be completely separate.
Yes, despite cosmetic similarity to pen-computing Maemo's hildon dock, I thought Unity was designed for mouse-driven Netbooks with that weird screen res - 1024x600.
i.e. shave off the top menubar and bottom status bar of an XGA desktop (gnome2) and stick a chunky dock on the LHS.
Thus giving you a downsized 4:3 800x600 screen with a horizontal sidebar.
Well Dalvik may be absent but the preferred development APIs, as per Ubuntu's developer page, are interpreted 'scripting languages' - QML and HTML/JS. i.e. think dashboard widgets and plasmoids.
So expecting the snappiness of, say, natively compiled objective-c might still disappoint to some extent. Although 'native' apps from Gtk(CordiaHD) and c++/Qt(Meego, Plasma Active) should still be supported, to the extent that Ubuntu would borrow functionality from the Mer project...
Also, initially, Canonical intends to interface with the Android drivers available for the handset (similar to the approach taken by Firefox OS). The real leap in performance would come with progress on the lima/freedreno driver projects and fully 3D-accelerated Wayland.
Data usage aside, doesn't the revenue from Android/iOS via Play/iTunes flow directly to Google/Apple ?
It's not just about the 'apps' but e-books, music and videos. If Ubuntu partnered with their buddy Amazon and each carrier via a revenue sharing agreement, there'd be some profit to be made...
e.g. buy up superseded Android stock, reflash with Ubu-fone-tu. e.g. squeeze an extra 6 months of sales out of the Galaxy S2 once the Exynos 5-based S4 is released.
How could they possibly build a developer community for this when developers already grumble about having to support Android as well, especially given that would-be Ubuntu phone users would be even more spending-averse than Android users.
The important thing to realise is, Canonical aren't creating a new platform here. It's just repackaging the work of others with a Unity-touch facade backed by debian package management and whatever fancy lock-in appstore they come up with.
The two main APIs developers will target are
HTML5 as found on
BB10/Playbook OS
Tizen
(open)webOS
Firefox OS
Chrome OS
QML as found on
BB10/Playbook OS
(open)webOS - built on top of Qt
KDE Plasma Active
Jolla Sailfish
Half-yearly upgrades would be as simple as executing 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
Probably but it's a caveat applicable to many computing devices these days.
Since chromium os is portage-based, it'd be nice if Google would support the device to transform its OS into a full-blown gentoo system - might attract a few more developers that way.
Windlows 7 starter allows a maximum of 2GB. 2GB ddr2 so-dimms retail for about $30 these days - lots of 1GB modules in landfill, single slot being defective by design.
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Haha. I never did grok command line scripting. But it's heartening I can learn more in a Slashdot discussion than in a 300 page 'Ubuntu for laypeople' paperback. :)
Did RMS ever say "Don't use Android"? Rather, the FSF has specific caveats such as:
1. "tivoisation" that RMS mentions above. Buying a phone with a locked bootloader restricts your ability to load your own kernel. Not providing a developer mode to load custom firmware or run utilities than require root also restricts freedom.
2. There's the f-droid repository for free software apps.
3. They have a campaign to write a driver for PowerVR GPUs (see also freedreno, lima)
4. Replicant is their Android distro, with the goal of removing the non-free blobs by writing replacement drivers.
5. Using a free software SDK - as mentioned on Slashdot recently regarding a license change.
RMS, imho, is more pragmatic than you credit him.
version control.
With everything electronic these days, I doubt it's as much as an issue as when other countries made the switch:
A car's locale can be set to display gallons & miles or litres & km.
The pump can be toggled on a per customer basis to display metric - much in the way that vending machines and ATMs have language selection.
With electronic billing, receipts can be easily modified to display multiple units.
Electronic signs can alternate between displaying per gallon/litre.
Yes, I'm fine with a tablet 'cover' that doubles as a keyboard and trackpad solution.
Hybrids are the technology for 2013. Witness this week's CES for examples. Some rotate the screen like the Lenovo twist, some flip like the Dell XPS Convertible, some detach like the Hp Envy. Then there's the Surface Pro, as you mentioned. These things are in Ultrabook territory but prices will come down as the novelty of a touchscreen laptop becomes the norm.
But by x86 binaries I mean legacy win32 stuff that won't run on ARM linux. e.g. my government's tax software. Can an iPad run that?
By 'half-assed x86 apps for tablets' I'm sure you're aware that Android-x86 runs on Intel, as does KDE Plasma Active and probably without too much tweaking webOS and Firefox OS.
If, as MS promises, the firmware for x86 devices isn't locked down for Windows-only, you can triple boot to your heart's content. On an ARM based system, you're at the mercy of a manufacturer that ships Android-only kernel blobs.
With netbooks declared dead during the week, so dies Windows 7 Starter with them.
The market here is the $400 Windows 8 Tablet, allowing Intel to compete with Win RT but allowing OEMs to produce high-end Core i7 convertibles at triple the price.
Runs all your x86 binaries.
By MS' own definition, uefi will support other os options (not guaranteed under ARM).
Has mature, supported foss GPU drivers unlike every android-only ARM SoC.
THE platform for that budget linux tablet that dual boots into MS Office?
Foster is certainly more common where I'm from... It's a lager we banished to the U.K. made from 100% wallaby wee.
I'm surprised firefox didn't auto-correct to 'rusty faucet'. :)
'Frosty Piss' being a loose anagram of First Post stating the obvious and tending to drift off towards an editor bashin' slant is probably the intent of the moderation.
The topic here is the content of the submission, viz some web forum founder's faked death - not whether the submission should have indeed made it to the story page...
Google Play isn't the only game in town. i.e. Aren't Amazon's kindles intentionally locked out of the Play store?
In that light, I suspect this crackdown is about releasing Android-compatible devices that don't pay lip service to Google. e.g. compatibility layers of BB10, Alien Dalvik etc that might funnel money away from Google to a platform specific app store.
I don't know if any solution that's not Android *does* incorporate elements of the SDK. But you can imagine if, say, a windows phone vendor decided to base a compatibility layer around ikvm to translate android calls into their .Net equivalents using libraries Google had written within the Android SDK.
I tbought they did. Wasn't that the nexus q that they pulled?
Oops, I meant to say even if everything is 98c, youll only incur a 2c overcharge on the total.
(x % 5)
-> 1, 2 : down
-> 3, 4 : up
Remember it's on your total bill, so even if everything in your $50 shopping trolley is 97 cents, you'll still only be overcharged a maximum of 3 cents. Swings and roundabouts - on your next transaction they may refund 2 cents...
In Australia we removed the 1 & 2 cent coins from circulation. So it came as a surprise that they bothered to ever mint them in the eurozone nearly a decade later.
Agreed, since Tizen, Ubuntu, Android, Chromium OS, Firefox OS, Mer, webOS etc are all Linux based...
The Cortex A-15 has hardware virtualization. Pair this with KVM and you run multiple OSes simultaneously.
Run your android dev environment on your Ubuntu host (connected to keyboard/mouse/screen) and deploy on the same hardware to your Android instance. Read a PDF using Okular (Plasma Active) while checking your email within your workplace-supplied Chromium OS instance.
The power of multiple OSes on the same handset is to appease corporate IT with respect to bring-your-own-device. Buy the dual-sim model and they can potentially be completely separate.
Yes, despite cosmetic similarity to pen-computing Maemo's hildon dock, I thought Unity was designed for mouse-driven Netbooks with that weird screen res - 1024x600.
i.e. shave off the top menubar and bottom status bar of an XGA desktop (gnome2) and stick a chunky dock on the LHS.
Thus giving you a downsized 4:3 800x600 screen with a horizontal sidebar.
Well Dalvik may be absent but the preferred development APIs, as per Ubuntu's developer page, are interpreted 'scripting languages' - QML and HTML/JS. i.e. think dashboard widgets and plasmoids.
So expecting the snappiness of, say, natively compiled objective-c might still disappoint to some extent. Although 'native' apps from Gtk(CordiaHD) and c++/Qt(Meego, Plasma Active) should still be supported, to the extent that Ubuntu would borrow functionality from the Mer project...
Also, initially, Canonical intends to interface with the Android drivers available for the handset (similar to the approach taken by Firefox OS). The real leap in performance would come with progress on the lima/freedreno driver projects and fully 3D-accelerated Wayland.
It requires a carrier to get on board...
Data usage aside, doesn't the revenue from Android/iOS via Play/iTunes flow directly to Google/Apple ?
It's not just about the 'apps' but e-books, music and videos. If Ubuntu partnered with their buddy Amazon and each carrier via a revenue sharing agreement, there'd be some profit to be made...
e.g. buy up superseded Android stock, reflash with Ubu-fone-tu. e.g. squeeze an extra 6 months of sales out of the Galaxy S2 once the Exynos 5-based S4 is released.
The important thing to realise is, Canonical aren't creating a new platform here. It's just repackaging the work of others with a Unity-touch facade backed by debian package management and whatever fancy lock-in appstore they come up with.
The two main APIs developers will target are
Half-yearly upgrades would be as simple as executing 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
And if the MS surface steals market share, Apple will hastily develop an iPad/MacbookAir hybrid looking eerily similar to the eMate 300.
An Apple product with a stylus - we're back to where we were 15 years ago with the Newton. Sculley was right after all?! :-)
Probably but it's a caveat applicable to many computing devices these days.
Since chromium os is portage-based, it'd be nice if Google would support the device to transform its OS into a full-blown gentoo system - might attract a few more developers that way.
In my city, taxis are yellow.
Some chromebooks allow you to install another OS on them and dual boot.
Windlows 7 starter allows a maximum of 2GB. 2GB ddr2 so-dimms retail for about $30 these days - lots of 1GB modules in landfill, single slot being defective by design.
Mac II wasn't released until 1987.