Modern toll road systems have an electronic device attached to one's car that beeps every time you pass a checkpoint, automatically deducting the toll from your bank balance.
Faster travel, less emissions in sitting in a queue at the toll booth...
In my country we have $1 and $2 coins and $5 notes. Since $5 notes are readily in circulation, it's rare you'll carry more than $10 in coins and in any case, coffee shops readily accept coins for your morning $3.30 cafe latte. So my experience is you'll generally have only two or three such coins in your pocket, exchanged with each transaction under $10.
By comparison, an LG Nexus 4 weighs 139g, so how is 25g extra in coins a problem?
Then again, except at fancy restaurants we don't have an entrenched tipping culture in Australia as the minimum wage is higher (built into the pricing) Is that part of the issue - carrying a wad of dollar bills to offload to each and every service worker one meets and that tipping with a coin wouldn't seem right?
To nitpick, Rhino does/did supply a command line utility to compile scripts ahead of time to.class files. However, the Oracle included engine based on rhino doesn't expose this as an option.
Nevertheless, as you say, the Nashorn approach is almost certainly more efficient due to the JSR 292 improvements at the JVM level.
The Oracle JDK includes a package-mangled version of Rhino, I believe. The IcedTea flavour of OpenJDK included with Linux distros uses Rhino for JS too. From their FAQ:
"Works out of the box for javax.script javascript. IcedTea will use Rhino, a JavaScript in Java implementation, when it is installed on the system."
JRuby is still alive and under active development but its main developers are no longer Sun employees.
At the time, Sun took an active interest in Ruby, hired JRuby programmers and built IDE support for it in Netbeans. Puzzlingly Oracle did an about face and removed it from Netbeans 7 while adding support for PHP.
There's already a javascript interpreter from mozilla bundled with every JRE, so there must be some demand.
General purpose? I dunno. Sun were enthusiastic about JRuby (an original motivation for invokeDynamic) for a while but Oracle dumped the development team like a hot potato.
As for the business case, think node.js in the cloud hosted on, say, Oracle Weblogic.
It's also an assumption that BB's android compatibility will forever remain at Gingerbread.
Gingerbread was a stable baseline to develop a compatibility layer for QNX in time for the playbook. But given the delays of BB10 , it's fair to say they've had other development priorities. I'd expect a Jelly Bean refresh late next year after they're actually shipping handsets and as more apps actually demand Android 4.x.
Climate change be darned, we now have an excuse to adopt low emission renewable fuels in the liberation of Saudi women from the tyranny of fundislamentalism!:)
xfce/mate seem popular but give KDE a try - it has matured from the abomination that was 4.0
e17 will be released in a matter of weeks (just in time for the Mayan apocalypse!). I tried enlightenment a few months ago and it seemed fast and bloat free. My distro's snapshot seemed rather buggy though - get something up to date.
The router is connected to a phone line (ADSL). The phone outlet isn't in a location that a computer could be set up.
Not a 20 bedroom mansion. Just a regular suburban home where the number of wifi connected devices outnumbers the population of humans. desktop, laser printer, smart phone, laptop.
A friend of mine had about 20m of coax circumnavigating his rented home and had to apologise when the LAN went down because his gf had tripped over a cable, again.
Well in my country (Australia) we have preferential voting. Every vote for a minority 'counts' in that each electorate ultimately selects which of the 2 candidates is the least bad.
2 years ago an interesting phenomenon occurred. Loosely aligned to the two party system Labor (Democrats), Liberal/National (Republicans) - our two main political groups both 'lost' the election. A deal was done with a handful of independents and a Green to form a minority government. Ever since, the ones forming an opposition have whined constantly about being held hostage to a few despite a majority of voters too rejecting their agenda and having unveiled only 1 policy (on maternity leave) in that time.
Some of us would hope the status quo remains and neither achieves a majority at any subsequent election.
That's what a 'smartphone' is - a pocket computer that can make phone calls. Two things killed small screens - onscreen qwerty keyboards and web browsers.
Besides, the android platform still has a number of sub 3" screens to chose from, albeit not with the flagship specs of the Nexus series - there is choice.
One of the bugbears of the ARM platform is the absence of mature, complete FOSS drivers for the embedded GPUs. e.g. PowerVR (proprietary), Mali (lima), Tegra (proprieatry), Adreno (Freedreno).
I could see Intel going the other way - keeping ARM at a distance but licensing its HD Graphics GPU to SoC manufacturers at minimal cost on the condition that they use Intel's factories to fabricate them.
(Just speculating - have no idea what % of a Sandy Bridge CPU's power draw is due to the graphics core(s))
I'm (reasonably) flash free on Ubuntu - no gnash nor adobe plugin installed. Many sites are converting over to HTML 5 video.
For the odd website that requires flash, my secondary browser is Google Chrome - which maintains its own internal flash player. I'm guessing you could download Chrome for Trisquel.
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Can someone from a graphics background please explain in layman's terms the following w.r.t. HiDPI, resolution independence etc.
In a normal display, say 1280x800 DPI=PPI = The number of dots on the screen at say a pixel depth of 96?
So in a normal laptop there are 1280x800 pixels.
The OP is claiming a standard cheap screen at 1280x800 is using tricks to render (2x2)=4 times the number of dots?
is that 4 pixels per dot or 4 dots per pixel? :)
On a high-end genuine 2560x1600 screen it switches to 1280x800 for compatibility thus inverting the ratio?
I'm just curious to whether this 'Retina' display is a genuine advancement in display tech or FUD on the part of the OP?
Confusing to us non graphics nerds...
So, get rid of toll booths? :)
Modern toll road systems have an electronic device attached to one's car that beeps every time you pass a checkpoint, automatically deducting the toll from your bank balance.
Faster travel, less emissions in sitting in a queue at the toll booth...
In my country we have $1 and $2 coins and $5 notes. Since $5 notes are readily in circulation, it's rare you'll carry more than $10 in coins and in any case, coffee shops readily accept coins for your morning $3.30 cafe latte. So my experience is you'll generally have only two or three such coins in your pocket, exchanged with each transaction under $10.
By comparison, an LG Nexus 4 weighs 139g, so how is 25g extra in coins a problem?
Then again, except at fancy restaurants we don't have an entrenched tipping culture in Australia as the minimum wage is higher (built into the pricing) Is that part of the issue - carrying a wad of dollar bills to offload to each and every service worker one meets and that tipping with a coin wouldn't seem right?
That's another thing, isn't it time you stopped using paper? :)
In Australia, we've been using polymer notes for nearly 25 years - around the time we phased out the $2 note in favour of coins.
Microsoft told Elop to abandon Qt because it was the choice of open source hippies.
RIM adopts Qt for BB10, so MS tells Elop to sue RIM.
To nitpick, Rhino does/did supply a command line utility to compile scripts ahead of time to .class files. However, the Oracle included engine based on rhino doesn't expose this as an option.
Nevertheless, as you say, the Nashorn approach is almost certainly more efficient due to the JSR 292 improvements at the JVM level.
Yes, it is a wrapper around rhino. On my Linux box
$ jrunscript -q
Language ECMAScript 1.7 implemention "Rhino" Rhino 1.7 release 3 2012 05 18
But it does in theory allow you to specify other scripting languages e.g. ruby if you add the necessary language runtime jars to the classpath.
The Oracle JDK includes a package-mangled version of Rhino, I believe. The IcedTea flavour of OpenJDK included with Linux distros uses Rhino for JS too. From their FAQ:
"Works out of the box for javax.script javascript. IcedTea will use Rhino, a JavaScript in Java implementation, when it is installed on the system."
JRuby is still alive and under active development but its main developers are no longer Sun employees.
At the time, Sun took an active interest in Ruby, hired JRuby programmers and built IDE support for it in Netbeans. Puzzlingly Oracle did an about face and removed it from Netbeans 7 while adding support for PHP.
There's already a javascript interpreter from mozilla bundled with every JRE, so there must be some demand.
General purpose? I dunno. Sun were enthusiastic about JRuby (an original motivation for invokeDynamic) for a while but Oracle dumped the development team like a hot potato.
As for the business case, think node.js in the cloud hosted on, say, Oracle Weblogic.
Nope, written from scratch.
It's also an assumption that BB's android compatibility will forever remain at Gingerbread.
Gingerbread was a stable baseline to develop a compatibility layer for QNX in time for the playbook. But given the delays of BB10 , it's fair to say they've had other development priorities. I'd expect a Jelly Bean refresh late next year after they're actually shipping handsets and as more apps actually demand Android 4.x.
"in recent years".
This is a new platform built on QNX, borrowing Qt from Symbian and Meego and running Android apps.
Climate change be darned, we now have an excuse to adopt low emission renewable fuels in the liberation of Saudi women from the tyranny of fundislamentalism! :)
Unity? *ducks* :)
xfce/mate seem popular but give KDE a try - it has matured from the abomination that was 4.0
e17 will be released in a matter of weeks (just in time for the Mayan apocalypse!). I tried enlightenment a few months ago and it seemed fast and bloat free. My distro's snapshot seemed rather buggy though - get something up to date.
Eric S. Raymond is now up to version 17?
I knew he was into all that Cathedral and Bazaar stuff but hadn't realised he'd open sourced himself!
The router is connected to a phone line (ADSL). The phone outlet isn't in a location that a computer could be set up.
Not a 20 bedroom mansion. Just a regular suburban home where the number of wifi connected devices outnumbers the population of humans. desktop, laser printer, smart phone, laptop.
And what % of homes are wired up?
A friend of mine had about 20m of coax circumnavigating his rented home and had to apologise when the LAN went down because his gf had tripped over a cable, again.
I dunno, emigrating to an idyllic life in the Caribbean sounds lovely.
I notice the island of Cuba is missing from the list of destinations. :-)
Well a Spanish startup, Geeksphone, did so with 2 models.
They probably would have succeeded, except their country is now in economic meltdown.
So it *is* possible but not given the current financial climate that has seen Palm disappear and RIM and Nokia in a death spiral.
Well in my country (Australia) we have preferential voting. Every vote for a minority 'counts' in that each electorate ultimately selects which of the 2 candidates is the least bad.
2 years ago an interesting phenomenon occurred. Loosely aligned to the two party system Labor (Democrats), Liberal/National (Republicans) - our two main political groups both 'lost' the election. A deal was done with a handful of independents and a Green to form a minority government. Ever since, the ones forming an opposition have whined constantly about being held hostage to a few despite a majority of voters too rejecting their agenda and having unveiled only 1 policy (on maternity leave) in that time.
Some of us would hope the status quo remains and neither achieves a majority at any subsequent election.
That's what a 'smartphone' is - a pocket computer that can make phone calls. Two things killed small screens - onscreen qwerty keyboards and web browsers.
Besides, the android platform still has a number of sub 3" screens to chose from, albeit not with the flagship specs of the Nexus series - there is choice.
One of the bugbears of the ARM platform is the absence of mature, complete FOSS drivers for the embedded GPUs. e.g. PowerVR (proprietary), Mali (lima), Tegra (proprieatry), Adreno (Freedreno).
I could see Intel going the other way - keeping ARM at a distance but licensing its HD Graphics GPU to SoC manufacturers at minimal cost on the condition that they use Intel's factories to fabricate them.
(Just speculating - have no idea what % of a Sandy Bridge CPU's power draw is due to the graphics core(s))
I'm (reasonably) flash free on Ubuntu - no gnash nor adobe plugin installed. Many sites are converting over to HTML 5 video.
For the odd website that requires flash, my secondary browser is Google Chrome - which maintains its own internal flash player. I'm guessing you could download Chrome for Trisquel.
I could be wrong but shouldn't USB Super Speed (5 Gbit/s) theoretically support gigabit ethernet?