I like Okular as a PDF viewer on the desktop more than Acrobat Reader, Sumatra, evince etc. A touchscreen version on a tablet would rock. Calligra, the kde office suite has also been reskinned for a touch interface.
More or less the same kde apps, specifically reworked for finger input. With usb OTG plug your tablet into a powered USB 2.0 hub and your tablet interface could immediately switch seamlessly to a desktop interface. Allowing you to finish that letter you'd been writing on the bus or continue reading that scientific paper on a desktop screen.
Well, it's a distro that started out at Vigo University which, obviously, saw a symbolism with the triskele (a perfectly cromulent English word). So Trisquel has nuance for the non-English people, for whom Galician localisation was a factor in forking debian.
And regional symbolism is important for a people that identify as neither Spanish nor Portuguese but the Celts that predated the Romans. And the Celtic theme isn't just in the distro's icon but the codenames for each release. Gone are "raring", "warty", "sid", "woody" etc, replaced by 'dwyn' and 'awen'.
So no denying it's a celtic-themed debian derivative whose name has a resonance to the people that founded it.
Now whether that's an appropriate name as the Poster-Child distro to push the FSF agenda on the other side of the world in Massachusetts, is a separate issue. Nevertheless a pagan celtic symbol has been co-opted to represent extremist advocacy!
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Speak for yourself. Some of us have multiple monitor setups, e.g. 1 in landscape, 1 in portrait. The ability to dynamically attach/detach tabs as separate windows is very handy. IDEs and web browsers make use of this feature.
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The 'Burning platforms' memo killed off Nokia's Qt deployment but 2013 will see 3 offerings:
- KDE Plasma Active running on Vivaldi - Sailfish running on Jolla phones - BB10 running on RIM phones
(Not to mention Canonical targeting 12.04 on Nexus 7 - Kubuntu on your tablet!)
I learnt Latin at school. 20 years later I struggle to read even a basic inscription - outside the classroom if you have no use for it, the vocab disappears rapidly. So unless one plans to contribute Latin language articles to Vicipaedia, far better to pick a living romance language where you can practice by going on vacation.
Spanish is an obvious choice - according to wikipedia it has the 2nd most native speakers in the world, after Mandarin. The French love to travel, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to converse in French anywhere in the world. Not forgetting Portuguese, which I wish I'd learnt before Spanish.
A surprise pragmatic choice, for work purposes, could be Catalan! Certain natives in Barcelona are getting restless to secede from Spain as a separate country, with a referendum being proposed. If that were to ever happen, the new government of Catalunya would no doubt introduce a new bureaucracy requiring new IT systems.
Lastly, if a structured, grammatical language is desired then might I suggest Music?:)
Might he combine resources with Luke Leighton, who as recently as last week was interviewed about a FSF endorsable arch, in addition to his eoma-68 project?
Diversity is good but with economies of scale there's a KDE tablet, Golden Delicious openmoko successor, replicant.us and geeksphone all promising varying degrees of openness but failing to develop much of a market up against the big boys...
I wouldn't dismiss this outright. Constitutionally, this would need to be tested in court.
See, Australia is a Commonwealth Realm, with the Queen as head of state. A senator of the Australian parliament is therefore an elected representative of the Queen and thus may, theoretically have the same rights and privileges as a British member of parliament. Something that might never codified in the transition from colony of the British Empire to independent country. Assange in this stunt would thus be hoping to be released on a technicality.
I'm not saying this is a valid defense but lefty human rights/constitutional lawyers in both countries might be keen to explore such an option of behalf of Mr Assange to extend his stay in little Ecuador indefinitely while the matter were resolved.
Hi Luke, sorry for the late questions - the timezone wasn't convenient.
You mentioned that the Mali and corresponding limadriver wasn't free enough.
Does the adreno from Qualcomm pose similar problems with regards the freedreno driver Or is it more of a problem that Qualcomm won't license it to third parties separate from their SnapDragon product?
What's the status of replicant.us on the allwinner? i.e. to what extent does the A10 solution you are developing fulfil a 'free' platform in a pragmatic sense?
Hmmm, I don't know if you've met many Jonathans but some abbreviate their name Jon, others Jono because it's less confusing than having people think your name is 'John'.
No different than being named Steve, Bob, Jim, Dave, Pete etc.
Why is it so hard to understand that increasing the weight of the most commonly used currency by a factor of eight is a real problem?
Because other advanced western economies including the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, eurozone have all made a transition from dollar bills to 1 and 2 dollar coins (or equivalent) with minimal fuss, and some time ago.
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Yeah I never understood that. Sugar from cane surely tastes better and has a higher energy efficiency as ethanol than maize.
Time to drop the embargo and buy Cuban sugarcane? :)
I like Okular as a PDF viewer on the desktop more than Acrobat Reader, Sumatra, evince etc. A touchscreen version on a tablet would rock.
Calligra, the kde office suite has also been reskinned for a touch interface.
More or less the same kde apps, specifically reworked for finger input. With usb OTG plug your tablet into a powered USB 2.0 hub and your tablet interface could immediately switch seamlessly to a desktop interface. Allowing you to finish that letter you'd been writing on the bus or continue reading that scientific paper on a desktop screen.
Well E17 is designed for desktops, no? This is KDE re-designed specifically for a touchscreen interface.
The chief of enlightenment is working on Tizen if you want a tablet interface based on the same libraries.
Theoretically, yes. There are plasma-active packages in the ubuntu repositories and ubuntu is targetting (Unity) the Nexus 7 for 13.04
So provided anyone from debian wants to upstream the builds...
This isn't desktop KDE, it's software specifically designed for touch screens.
Only some Atom chips are 64-bit.
Well, it's a distro that started out at Vigo University which, obviously, saw a symbolism with the triskele (a perfectly cromulent English word). So Trisquel has nuance for the non-English people, for whom Galician localisation was a factor in forking debian.
And regional symbolism is important for a people that identify as neither Spanish nor Portuguese but the Celts that predated the Romans. And the Celtic theme isn't just in the distro's icon but the codenames for each release. Gone are "raring", "warty", "sid", "woody" etc, replaced by 'dwyn' and 'awen'.
So no denying it's a celtic-themed debian derivative whose name has a resonance to the people that founded it.
Now whether that's an appropriate name as the Poster-Child distro to push the FSF agenda on the other side of the world in Massachusetts, is a separate issue. Nevertheless a pagan celtic symbol has been co-opted to represent extremist advocacy!
It's Spanish for the 3-legged symbol that appears, among other places, on the flag of the Isle of Man.
See, the spaniards of Galicia claim celtic heritage.
Still not cool enough for you?
It's nearly 11am, tomorrow, in eastern Australia. No sign of the apocalypse yet. :)
Yes and dawn in central america is late evening west of the international dateline.
"the 'playas'" ?
I love the beach! :)
Speak for yourself. Some of us have multiple monitor setups, e.g. 1 in landscape, 1 in portrait. The ability to dynamically attach/detach tabs as separate windows is very handy. IDEs and web browsers make use of this feature.
The 'Burning platforms' memo killed off Nokia's Qt deployment but 2013 will see 3 offerings:
- KDE Plasma Active running on Vivaldi
- Sailfish running on Jolla phones
- BB10 running on RIM phones
(Not to mention Canonical targeting 12.04 on Nexus 7 - Kubuntu on your tablet!)
So QML ain't extinct; it's just hibernating.
I learnt Latin at school. 20 years later I struggle to read even a basic inscription - outside the classroom if you have no use for it, the vocab disappears rapidly. So unless one plans to contribute Latin language articles to Vicipaedia, far better to pick a living romance language where you can practice by going on vacation.
Spanish is an obvious choice - according to wikipedia it has the 2nd most native speakers in the world, after Mandarin. The French love to travel, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to converse in French anywhere in the world. Not forgetting Portuguese, which I wish I'd learnt before Spanish.
A surprise pragmatic choice, for work purposes, could be Catalan! Certain natives in Barcelona are getting restless to secede from Spain as a separate country, with a referendum being proposed. If that were to ever happen, the new government of Catalunya would no doubt introduce a new bureaucracy requiring new IT systems.
Lastly, if a structured, grammatical language is desired then might I suggest Music? :)
Yet another open hardware project?
Might he combine resources with Luke Leighton, who as recently as last week was interviewed about a FSF endorsable arch, in addition to his eoma-68 project?
Diversity is good but with economies of scale there's a KDE tablet, Golden Delicious openmoko successor, replicant.us and geeksphone all promising varying degrees of openness but failing to develop much of a market up against the big boys...
Sorry to spoil a good joke but Burke is merely the science minister.
Australia uses triple zero.
Au contraire - he has quite a reasonable chance of getting elected to the Victorian senate.
2004 Stephen Fielding (Family First) 1.9%
2010 John Madigan (DLP) 2.33%
Never underestimate the preference deals of minor parties to stifle Labor and the Greens.
I wouldn't dismiss this outright. Constitutionally, this would need to be tested in court.
See, Australia is a Commonwealth Realm, with the Queen as head of state. A senator of the Australian parliament is therefore an elected representative of the Queen and thus may, theoretically have the same rights and privileges as a British member of parliament. Something that might never codified in the transition from colony of the British Empire to independent country. Assange in this stunt would thus be hoping to be released on a technicality.
I'm not saying this is a valid defense but lefty human rights/constitutional lawyers in both countries might be keen to explore such an option of behalf of Mr Assange to extend his stay in little Ecuador indefinitely while the matter were resolved.
Hi Luke, sorry for the late questions - the timezone wasn't convenient.
You mentioned that the Mali and corresponding limadriver wasn't free enough.
Does the adreno from Qualcomm pose similar problems with regards the freedreno driver Or is it more of a problem that Qualcomm won't license it to third parties separate from their SnapDragon product?
What's the status of replicant.us on the allwinner? i.e. to what extent does the A10 solution you are developing fulfil a 'free' platform in a pragmatic sense?
On land Google Maps is fine, just don't rely on it for seafaring.
Hmmm, I don't know if you've met many Jonathans but some abbreviate their name Jon, others Jono because it's less confusing than having people think your name is 'John'.
No different than being named Steve, Bob, Jim, Dave, Pete etc.
The developer, a university student?
It would be far cheaper to give said developer an intern job at Apple than the fee Apple's lawyers charge.
There are regional pronunciations of localities such as Jervis Bay, Launceston, Cairns, Lalor, Reservoir.
Castlemaine, VIC and Newcastle, NSW both have 'Castle' in their name but are likely to be pronounced differently either side of the Murray.
Then there's derby/darby, which is what the 'Hervey' debate is about. Many Aussies would pronounce it , "incorrectly", as Her-V
Which is what happens when you name places after obscure 18thC British noblemen with non-phonetic names.
Because other advanced western economies including the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, eurozone have all made a transition from dollar bills to 1 and 2 dollar coins (or equivalent) with minimal fuss, and some time ago.