Efforts to port Qt and Wayland to Android are progressing.
As I understand, this is hampered by Google creating its own libc implementation to provide just enough support to run dalvik on top of it for an under-resourced phone platform in 2007.
do these $3 OTG cables enable charging at the same time as acting as a host?
i.e. the single micro usb port typically plugs into a mains outlet to charge. Is it possible to plug your mains adapter into a 'powered' usb hub, then plug your phone via an OTG cable into that hub? Both drawing power and accessing usb devices such as keyboards, mice, sd cards?
phone [hub powering 3 or so usb devices]----------------- mains power
i.e. I wouldn't want to run an Ubuntu system that only ran for 90 minutes because one had to connect one's charger!
Indeed, initial Win8 reviews have been scathing but this basically a 1.0 release of this new hybrid paradigm.
If MS can weather the storm and perfect it for Windows 9, then a single device that allows one to use a touchscreen on a bus but run traditional desktop software is a challenger.
Everyone's into convergence these days. KDE have Plasma Active, XP Tablet Edition reborn as Windows 8, Ubuntu for Android...
These ideas try to capture tablet interfaces that morph into a more traditional desktop environment for running 'real world' applications.
Creating an iPad/Macbook Air hybrid that runs OS X software and iOS apps shouldn't be that difficult. After all, iOS basically *is* NeXTStep for touchscreens with unnecessary cruft removed and modernised. XCode does amd64/ARM fat binaries already, no doubt.
Indeed, one of the major sporting competitions here in Australia uses a Silverlight plugin to load videos via a flash plugin.
On my Linux box I have Chrome setup with Moonlight for that particular website. I use Chromium sans flash for regular HTML5 video browsing. (Firefox is a bit heavy for a P4).
In this day and age a minority of the web actually requires applets. The option should be to 'whitelist' only particular websites.
[Aside: I have a public JRE installed on a windows box for work purposes. I may be vulnerable to rogue Java Web Start apps but there's a scary security warning each time I click on a JNLP link.
As for applets, I can sleep easy knowing there's no chance of infection. It's a 64bit JDK... All of the browsers from Mozilla, MS and Google are 32bit. So on my Windows machine no browser can load the 64 bit plugin!]
Today I can plug my USB hard disk (salvaged from a laptop) into pretty much any PC made in the last decade and have it boot 32bit Linux.
Provided each device supports a chained bootloader to boot off USB, today's announcement paves the way for similar for ARM hardware e.g. BeagleBoard/RPi/Galaxy Nexus etc.
Another application would be rescue disks - boot from an SD card from any Android device (supporting booting off SD)
The summary suggests only a few European countries have adopted 1800Mhz. Whether that implies that those countries are the first to adopt LTE or there are other countries that chose an alternative isn't clear. But certain from a cost benefit and interoperability position, it would be prudent to use the dominant EU wide technology.
Is the choice in the iPhone 5 even relevant at this point? Apple got some flack where I live for advertising their product as 4G that wouldn't work with our carriers but the devices still sold like hotcakes.
Then the UK agree to release Julian Assange into exile. He steps off the plane to find his cherished Bolivarian socialist refuge has been overrun by hipster Manzanistas. Noooooooooo!
Aren't Gram just the remnants of the webOS open source project? Let them push boundaries, innovate and just let them code.
As for this new ex-Nokian led venture, let them polish the end results in terms of marketable hardware. e.g. akin to Samsung taking Google's AOSP and polishing the OS (touchwiz) for Galaxy phones and tablets.
Nothing in the announcements says Gram will actually make hardware.
Nevertheless, if you want to create a properly sandboxed viewer capable of executing embedded JS, it's possibly the right approach. i.e. using the available battle-hardened Javascript engine embedded in your web browser. With a major caveat that PDF is a format primarily for printing as opposed to rendering onscreen.
I would ask if translating PDF to HTML5 is inherently slow or just that the implementation hasn't yet received sufficient optimisation. e.g. gmail's own render farm generates HTML on the fly for PDF attachments.
Which at worst will result in a few thousand travellers annually being pissed off when they try to apply for a tourist visa.
i.e. Add UK to the list of Anglophone travellers (USA, Australia, Canada) that are inconvenienced at border crossings because South American states embrace bureaucratic 'reciprocity'.
Well the Argentines still moan about the Malvinas 3 decades on. But what either nation would want with sheep dwelling islands with a freezing climate is beyond me.
yeah that was my feeling - if enough carriers, vendors and users took up their pitchforks to declare "If I wanted a phone without flash I would have bought an iPhone" then Google would port the code.
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Efforts to port Qt and Wayland to Android are progressing.
As I understand, this is hampered by Google creating its own libc implementation to provide just enough support to run dalvik on top of it for an under-resourced phone platform in 2007.
do these $3 OTG cables enable charging at the same time as acting as a host?
i.e. the single micro usb port typically plugs into a mains outlet to charge. Is it possible to plug your mains adapter into a 'powered' usb hub, then plug your phone via an OTG cable into that hub? Both drawing power and accessing usb devices such as keyboards, mice, sd cards?
phone [hub powering 3 or so usb devices]----------------- mains power
i.e. I wouldn't want to run an Ubuntu system that only ran for 90 minutes because one had to connect one's charger!
Indeed, initial Win8 reviews have been scathing but this basically a 1.0 release of this new hybrid paradigm.
If MS can weather the storm and perfect it for Windows 9, then a single device that allows one to use a touchscreen on a bus but run traditional desktop software is a challenger.
Everyone's into convergence these days. KDE have Plasma Active, XP Tablet Edition reborn as Windows 8, Ubuntu for Android...
These ideas try to capture tablet interfaces that morph into a more traditional desktop environment for running 'real world' applications.
Creating an iPad/Macbook Air hybrid that runs OS X software and iOS apps shouldn't be that difficult. After all, iOS basically *is* NeXTStep for touchscreens with unnecessary cruft removed and modernised. XCode does amd64/ARM fat binaries already, no doubt.
Magic Trackpad?
The iPad Mini? :-)
Any mini 'tablet' I would consider buying would probably be one of those 5" phones from HTC or Samsung.
Hehe. After the Apple product announcement, it really has been a slow news day!
Well either the silverlight plugin was displaying a fancy gui just to load the videos and do the actual playback in flash OR
Moonlight might have been offloading the playback.
Indeed, one of the major sporting competitions here in Australia uses a Silverlight plugin to load videos via a flash plugin.
On my Linux box I have Chrome setup with Moonlight for that particular website. I use Chromium sans flash for regular HTML5 video browsing. (Firefox is a bit heavy for a P4).
In this day and age a minority of the web actually requires applets. The option should be to 'whitelist' only particular websites.
[Aside: I have a public JRE installed on a windows box for work purposes. I may be vulnerable to rogue Java Web Start apps but there's a scary security warning each time I click on a JNLP link.
As for applets, I can sleep easy knowing there's no chance of infection. It's a 64bit JDK... All of the browsers from Mozilla, MS and Google are 32bit. So on my Windows machine no browser can load the 64 bit plugin!]
Any self respecting patriotic American would recoil in horror on seeing km^2 in the headline! Bad things happen with metric titles; witness:
9 mm - A Nicholas Cage movie about snuff movies.
21 grams - a Sean Penn movie about the weight of a soul.
Now if they'd just rounded it up to 250 acres, there would be less commotion!
Today I can plug my USB hard disk (salvaged from a laptop) into pretty much any PC made in the last decade and have it boot 32bit Linux.
Provided each device supports a chained bootloader to boot off USB, today's announcement paves the way for similar for ARM hardware e.g. BeagleBoard/RPi/Galaxy Nexus etc.
Another application would be rescue disks - boot from an SD card from any Android device (supporting booting off SD)
Product withdrawn from sale pending announcement of new product.
Film at 11.
ah, ok.
I come from a land downunder. Spring doesn't start 'til September.
Who goes to the beach in winter?
There's always Nokia and WP8. :-)
Apple aren't suing Elop and Ballmer, yet.
The summary suggests only a few European countries have adopted 1800Mhz. Whether that implies that those countries are the first to adopt LTE or there are other countries that chose an alternative isn't clear. But certain from a cost benefit and interoperability position, it would be prudent to use the dominant EU wide technology.
Is the choice in the iPhone 5 even relevant at this point? Apple got some flack where I live for advertising their product as 4G that wouldn't work with our carriers but the devices still sold like hotcakes.
Apple should buy Ecuador.
Then the UK agree to release Julian Assange into exile. He steps off the plane to find his cherished Bolivarian socialist refuge has been overrun by hipster Manzanistas. Noooooooooo!
Palm/HP no longer control the remains of Be. Meanwhile
Aren't Gram just the remnants of the webOS open source project? Let them push boundaries, innovate and just let them code.
As for this new ex-Nokian led venture, let them polish the end results in terms of marketable hardware. e.g. akin to Samsung taking Google's AOSP and polishing the OS (touchwiz) for Galaxy phones and tablets.
Nothing in the announcements says Gram will actually make hardware.
Nevertheless, if you want to create a properly sandboxed viewer capable of executing embedded JS, it's possibly the right approach. i.e. using the available battle-hardened Javascript engine embedded in your web browser. With a major caveat that PDF is a format primarily for printing as opposed to rendering onscreen.
I would ask if translating PDF to HTML5 is inherently slow or just that the implementation hasn't yet received sufficient optimisation. e.g. gmail's own render farm generates HTML on the fly for PDF attachments.
'in the current premises' ?
We'll knock at the door, you'll answer and men with guns will politely ask for his removal.
Which at worst will result in a few thousand travellers annually being pissed off when they try to apply for a tourist visa.
i.e. Add UK to the list of Anglophone travellers (USA, Australia, Canada) that are inconvenienced at border crossings because South American states embrace bureaucratic 'reciprocity'.
Well the Argentines still moan about the Malvinas 3 decades on. But what either nation would want with sheep dwelling islands with a freezing climate is beyond me.
Except there's rumoured to be oil nearby...
yeah that was my feeling - if enough carriers, vendors and users took up their pitchforks to declare "If I wanted a phone without flash I would have bought an iPhone" then Google would port the code.