Some people say "well, gosh, you need to learn another language to be well-rounded and so you can travel". That's bullshit. Great, I learn German. That'll help me for the one week of my life that I ever spend visiting in Germany. How is it going to help me in Japan, China, Mexico, Spain, Canada, France, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Sweden or any other place?
Because Germans travel. There are hot single lonely German girls in every country you're likely to take vacations.
Their existing OS? That's the point - RIM saw the writing on the wall several years ago. They bought QNX, added an Android portability layer, integrated Qt.
You're comparing their legacy OS. BB10 isn't out yet.
The KDE team even flirt with the idea of rebadging an underspecced Chinese tablet as Vivaldi.
I think Google's Nexus 7 will steal their price point but kudos for trying.
Someone asked what was the point of Activities. Well this is it - have a touchscreen activity for the bus. Dock the same device into your TV and switch to a home entertainment activity. Plug in a keyboard and a mouse and you then load a desktop activity. All on the same 'computer'.
I wonder what percentage of Linux users even work cross platform?
The corporate desktop is still dominated by Windows XP Professional. So it's often a case of Windows by day, Linux at home.
None of these are Qt-based but at work I've regularly used the following in preference to win32 only alternatives due to the fact I can run them on my home machine:
Eclipse/Netbeans, Firefox, Gimp (simple image editing), Geany (no vi/emacs wars please). Thunderbird and Libreoffice not so much because most businesses depend on MS Office. I even gave Monodevelop a try once or twice after cursing at VS2010.
Gina, Clive and Rupert have poisoned the political system to the degree that Abbott will win in a landslide, with only 1 new policy (maternity leave) since Howard's humbling defeat in 2007.
Well there are way too many irrelevant hyperlinks in the summary.
But the blog post basically boils down to re-implementing Plastik in QML. That C++ theming is too complex for the average mortal, where a declarative markup language suffices instead.
It could make for an interesting AGM if 'ordinary' shareholders declared a no confidence motion. Sale to MS isn't a fait accompli if another suitor offers a fair price.
How deep are Shuttleworth's pockets? Canonical has been seeking an entry into the phone/tablet business with its Ubuntu for Android initiative. Nokibuntu...
better tablets - such as? One of the few mass marketed android tablets with a keyboard dock is the Asus Transformer. For which I've seen mixed feedback re durability and build quality. Ubuntu porting was from one volunteer NZ hacker.
Battery life may be reduced but going x86 means hardware support may be better e.g. ARM SoC's don't tend to support Xorg well. Plus, being a Windows machine, it should come with plenty of RAM.
?? Where did I trot out the old fallacies a single button mouse?
I thought they had the following inputs (1) Magic Trackpad - touchpad for desktop systems (2) Mighty Mouse - touch sensitive zero button mouse
So basically devices that use multi-touch over bluetooth to simulate traditional mouse behaviour. One you slide your finger around for motion, the other that moves across the desk.
I'm not aware they actually sell Apple branded mice with buttons and a scroll wheel.
Well exactly. Wading through the patent document, it mentioned the following points:
(1) Defining scrollbar behaviour. (2) Showing and hiding a UI element based on user input. (3) Defining a touchscreen apparatus to use your finger as an input device.
So (1) is a scrollbar (2) is autohide. Combining them produces a scrollbar that dynamically shows or hides based on user input. Nothing revolutionary given any UI toolkit could trap keyboard or mouse wheel events and show the scrollbar only while active. That Apple never marketed a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel as found on common desktop computers is beside the point. (3) Defines basic touch screen interaction.
(3) really defines one's finger as a scrollwheel. So unless (1) and (2) stand together on their own, how is this revolutionary?
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Because Germans travel. There are hot single lonely German girls in every country you're likely to take vacations.
Their existing OS? That's the point - RIM saw the writing on the wall several years ago. They bought QNX, added an Android portability layer, integrated Qt.
You're comparing their legacy OS. BB10 isn't out yet.
The KDE team even flirt with the idea of rebadging an underspecced Chinese tablet as Vivaldi.
I think Google's Nexus 7 will steal their price point but kudos for trying.
Someone asked what was the point of Activities. Well this is it - have a touchscreen activity for the bus. Dock the same device into your TV and switch to a home entertainment activity. Plug in a keyboard and a mouse and you then load a desktop activity. All on the same 'computer'.
The corporate desktop is still dominated by Windows XP Professional. So it's often a case of Windows by day, Linux at home.
None of these are Qt-based but at work I've regularly used the following in preference to win32 only alternatives due to the fact I can run them on my home machine:
Eclipse/Netbeans, Firefox, Gimp (simple image editing), Geany (no vi/emacs wars please). Thunderbird and Libreoffice not so much because most businesses depend on MS Office. I even gave Monodevelop a try once or twice after cursing at VS2010.
Which is the theory of setting a price on carbon - taxing emissions on coal to fund a 'low carbon' future.
Does it really matter at this point?
Gina, Clive and Rupert have poisoned the political system to the degree that Abbott will win in a landslide, with only 1 new policy (maternity leave) since Howard's humbling defeat in 2007.
Yes, MATE is stuck with an obsolete version of GTK+. Similarly the KDE fork, Trinity, is stick with an obsolete version of Qt.
That's the trade-off of progress over backwards compatibility.
isn't gnucash compatible (file filters) with Quicken?
Well there are way too many irrelevant hyperlinks in the summary.
But the blog post basically boils down to re-implementing Plastik in QML. That C++ theming is too complex for the average mortal, where a declarative markup language suffices instead.
yeah, sun did themselves a disserve by not making the system look and feel the default.
It could make for an interesting AGM if 'ordinary' shareholders declared a no confidence motion. Sale to MS isn't a fait accompli if another suitor offers a fair price.
How deep are Shuttleworth's pockets? Canonical has been seeking an entry into the phone/tablet business with its Ubuntu for Android initiative. Nokibuntu...
Analysts predict RIM is on a downward spiral to match Nokia.
Nevertheless, if BB10 ever hits the market perhaps it will have perfected the Qt on a phone concept where Symbian, Meego, Qtopia failed.
last I heard, gallium3d implemented direct3d 11 natively. Perhaps not to the maturity of Windows 7 but it's a start.
Well in defense of 6digit newbies, this awkward portmanteau does sound like Chinglish.
I've stayed in â20/night hostels where key cards served dual purposes.
Shared dormitories had individual lockers for each inhabitant. Multiple key cards would open the room but each only a single locker.
In this situation, a 'housekeeper exploit' could possibly find the locker code compromised, even if the room code remained secure.
Can't wait for the fallout in April next year when Ubuntu ships Wayland as the default display technology in 13.04 Randy Rhinoceros. :)
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mine came with a wall socket plug and a usb cable.
i thought microusb was already law - in Europe at least.
my last 2 phones (purchased outside EU) have used that, a sony Ericsson and a Motorola.
Have a look at WebAPI, Mozilla's app platform for Firefox OS.
You can turn Mike Elgan off, option somewhere.
No worse than Tom from myspace having 20 million friends.
better tablets - such as? One of the few mass marketed android tablets with a keyboard dock is the Asus Transformer. For which I've seen mixed feedback re durability and build quality. Ubuntu porting was from one volunteer NZ hacker.
Battery life may be reduced but going x86 means hardware support may be better e.g. ARM SoC's don't tend to support Xorg well. Plus, being a Windows machine, it should come with plenty of RAM.
I wonder if the UEFI unlocking mandate extends to MS' own x86 hardware. The Surface might be a sweet machine to run Linux on! :)
?? Where did I trot out the old fallacies a single button mouse?
I thought they had the following inputs
(1) Magic Trackpad - touchpad for desktop systems
(2) Mighty Mouse - touch sensitive zero button mouse
So basically devices that use multi-touch over bluetooth to simulate traditional mouse behaviour. One you slide your finger around for motion, the other that moves across the desk.
I'm not aware they actually sell Apple branded mice with buttons and a scroll wheel.
Well exactly. Wading through the patent document, it mentioned the following points:
(1) Defining scrollbar behaviour.
(2) Showing and hiding a UI element based on user input.
(3) Defining a touchscreen apparatus to use your finger as an input device.
So (1) is a scrollbar (2) is autohide. Combining them produces a scrollbar that dynamically shows or hides based on user input. Nothing revolutionary given any UI toolkit could trap keyboard or mouse wheel events and show the scrollbar only while active. That Apple never marketed a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel as found on common desktop computers is beside the point. (3) Defines basic touch screen interaction.
(3) really defines one's finger as a scrollwheel. So unless (1) and (2) stand together on their own, how is this revolutionary?