I fourth that. And fix the theme so it works with Firefox (mobile). It's a blank page right now. Not that I use FF on my phone often, I'm using Dolphin most of the time but I wouldn't mind if more site were compatible with more browsers.
By the way: polls don't work in the mobile theme in Dolphin: the options don't display. I think I'll keep using Classic.
Does anybody know if the google glasses can be worn over a pair of prescription glasses? Myopia and presbyopia are common and not everybody can wear contact lenses.
Not really. Content producers are going to be the only category of people still buying laptops a few years from now. Everybody else will be using tablets or phablets. Software developers are a fair share of them and so linux on the desktop will be more important than now.
Fastweb is opening up its network. Residential customers with new routers have a public IPv4 address and can open ports on the router (but not port 5000).
Too bad the new routers are not very good. Other customers and I are experiencing weak WiFi signal and lot of lag over WiFi between devices inside the home network (wire is fast). That's ok for browsing with a phone but I'm also experiencing problems handling concurrent connections: even a 2 Mb/s data stream (video streaming, a backup, etc) seems to affect significantly the responsiveness of the other connections (it's a 10 Mb/s symmetric fiber optic line). The old router was much better, but had no WiFi: the now discontinued Fasteweb's TV set top box could get a 4 Mb/s MPEG2 stream and the other computers in my home could access the internet at 6 Mb/s without any problem. I wonder if they messed up the home router or their network.
I think you have some points, but only number 1 and 3.
Point 1 is taken into account by those things called network and usb port (backups!) but yes, it's easier to lose a small device than a laptop. Or destroy it by a fall, or getting it stolen.
Point 2, that's not different from developing on any computer. If the programs I create for a living are going to run on customers' hw and pay my bills I need to move them off my computer, right? Maybe you were hinting at compatibility issues.
Point 3 will be taken into account by more powerful cpus and more RAM. We just have to wait because I don't think we're still there.
Point 4, well, that was to be modded funny:-)
I add two more points.
Point 5: batteries are still not good enough. If you want the phone to do what a computer does and for that long, we need a battery as large as a laptop's one. That's impossible, so this phone is going to be perpetually plugged to main socket whenever somebody is using it as a computer.
Point 6: we're going to need a screen and a keyboard (the phone itself might be the mouse or the touchpad) so that almost defeats all the portability of the system.
Nevertheless I'd love to have only one device for doing everything I do on my phone and my laptop. My guess? Five to ten years for something usable, probably more for something that I'd use.
But I have to ask why would Google let Apple do it but not Microsoft?
They didn't let Apple use their API. The iOS YouTube app is made by Google
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/youtube/id544007664?mt=8
MS should ask Google to develop an app for their phones instead of complaining for the wrong reasons. Anyway I bet this is part of an ongoing negotiation so we shouldn't worry much about it.
Oh well, I think I'm not qualified to discuss location aware queries because I don't share my position with Google (all position sharing settings off) but I understood your point now.
I just fired up Google Maps on my Android phone, asked for Denver International Airport and found it, but who knows, different devices might return different results or Google fixed it.
They can charge money for the apps, the GPL doesn't prevent that. But they must distribute the source code, the GPL requires that. IMHO some people will build their own app from source but many more will just pay for the convenience of instant installation and updates. Unfortunately sooner or later somebody will publish the same app for free and if s/he keeps it updated they'll be driven out of business.
My answer to your question is that parrots are birds, they are meant to fly. In your kitten analogy this is like tying their legs, not clipping their claws. If you have to clip the feathers of a parrot to keep it into your home then you shouldn't have a parrot in your home. Leave them where they live with their siblings.
You're probably right about the X buttons. IMHO dialog buttons are large enough to be tapped. I just tried a simulation with Ubuntu's Suspend / Restart / Cancel / Shutdown dialog.
Thinking about it, I think I'd like to convert to touch gestures some of the compiz key combinations I often use, or zooming in/out of pictures and pdf files.
Many consumer laptops cost less than a smartphone that comes with 2 or 3 years mandatory contract and they're what most of the laptop market was made of so far: laptops left at home until people come back from work.
Anyway, my business laptop costs twice as much as my smartphone. I'm happy at scrolling windows using the touchpad, where my fingers rest while I'm not typing, but I'd love tapping the X buttons on screen to close windows or to hit dialog buttons: tapping would be much faster than aiming the pointer to the button and clicking. Same if I were using a mouse.
They don't have any particular duty. Read Zuckerberg's IPO letter. He made it clear that shareholders profit was not fb's top priority but I think he gave strategic reasons for that.
Probably it's only me that is wrong, thank you for pointing out my mistake. As for my oversimplifications, I knew I was leaving out something but I wanted to keep it short. Your interpretations are closer to the real licenses.
These are not exactly the terms of GPL and BSD but:
GPL is for people and companies that think "I wrote this software [together with X, Y and Z] and if somebody else makes it better they must share it with all the world, as I did."
BSD is for people and companies that think "I wrote this software [together with X, Y and Z] and I accept the loss that somebody else makes it better and keep it for themselves because I want to have the option of getting somebody's else software, make it better and keep it for me without sharing it back."
I think we can argue forever on the ethic merits of the two approaches (I feel in the GPL camp). Anyway both GPL and BSD make economic sense and we won't be talking about them if they didn't, one or both would be dead long time ago. If a company wants to include some big secret in its code, it must go BSD and occasionally regrets it can't use some GPL code and rant about it. Sometimes the GPL people rant about not being able to include BSD code in their projects.
I know many people that develop Web applications on Macs and deploy on Linux servers. The technologies range from php to ruby on rails, node.js etc.
If the servers stay on x86 there might be subtle incompatibilities between development and production environments. Furthermore you won't be able to run a VM with your server on your Mac. I wonder if they'll have to switch to windows or Linux.
Don't know about stock Android but icons and widgets are displayed together in the home screens of Samsung's Touchwiz. I know many people don't like Tw but I really never understood why. It runs just fine on my SG2.
But without the interposition of police or equivalent organizations you might die in any of those disputes, which I bet will increase dramatically. Historically people valued their lives more than their possessions and created police corps even if they had to pay for them. That's why we are living in this kind of world.
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Oh yes, my ff has got adblock. Thanks for finding out that bug in the page.
I fourth that. And fix the theme so it works with Firefox (mobile). It's a blank page right now. Not that I use FF on my phone often, I'm using Dolphin most of the time but I wouldn't mind if more site were compatible with more browsers.
By the way: polls don't work in the mobile theme in Dolphin: the options don't display. I think I'll keep using Classic.
Does anybody know if the google glasses can be worn over a pair of prescription glasses? Myopia and presbyopia are common and not everybody can wear contact lenses.
Not really. Content producers are going to be the only category of people still buying laptops a few years from now. Everybody else will be using tablets or phablets. Software developers are a fair share of them and so linux on the desktop will be more important than now.
+100!
This makes me hope that 2017 will be the ETA for the fix of this one :-)
Obligatory disclaimer: no, I can't learn a new (for me) language and a new toolchain to fix it. I'll live with the bug as I did for three years.
Fastweb is opening up its network. Residential customers with new routers have a public IPv4 address and can open ports on the router (but not port 5000).
Too bad the new routers are not very good. Other customers and I are experiencing weak WiFi signal and lot of lag over WiFi between devices inside the home network (wire is fast). That's ok for browsing with a phone but I'm also experiencing problems handling concurrent connections: even a 2 Mb/s data stream (video streaming, a backup, etc) seems to affect significantly the responsiveness of the other connections (it's a 10 Mb/s symmetric fiber optic line). The old router was much better, but had no WiFi: the now discontinued Fasteweb's TV set top box could get a 4 Mb/s MPEG2 stream and the other computers in my home could access the internet at 6 Mb/s without any problem. I wonder if they messed up the home router or their network.
Oh, people eat recovered Carbon anotnd other elements all the time, why not Barium? Just think about organic fertilizers.
I think you have some points, but only number 1 and 3. :-)
Point 1 is taken into account by those things called network and usb port (backups!) but yes, it's easier to lose a small device than a laptop. Or destroy it by a fall, or getting it stolen.
Point 2, that's not different from developing on any computer. If the programs I create for a living are going to run on customers' hw and pay my bills I need to move them off my computer, right? Maybe you were hinting at compatibility issues.
Point 3 will be taken into account by more powerful cpus and more RAM. We just have to wait because I don't think we're still there.
Point 4, well, that was to be modded funny
I add two more points.
Point 5: batteries are still not good enough. If you want the phone to do what a computer does and for that long, we need a battery as large as a laptop's one. That's impossible, so this phone is going to be perpetually plugged to main socket whenever somebody is using it as a computer.
Point 6: we're going to need a screen and a keyboard (the phone itself might be the mouse or the touchpad) so that almost defeats all the portability of the system.
Nevertheless I'd love to have only one device for doing everything I do on my phone and my laptop. My guess? Five to ten years for something usable, probably more for something that I'd use.
They didn't let Apple use their API. The iOS YouTube app is made by Google https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/youtube/id544007664?mt=8 MS should ask Google to develop an app for their phones instead of complaining for the wrong reasons. Anyway I bet this is part of an ongoing negotiation so we shouldn't worry much about it.
Off topic and sarcastic as it may be, I always thought that boat is so ugly, finally they realized it's not worth all those dollars http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/21/tech/innovation/steve-jobs-yacht/index.html
Oh well, I think I'm not qualified to discuss location aware queries because I don't share my position with Google (all position sharing settings off) but I understood your point now.
I just fired up Google Maps on my Android phone, asked for Denver International Airport and found it, but who knows, different devices might return different results or Google fixed it.
They can charge money for the apps, the GPL doesn't prevent that. But they must distribute the source code, the GPL requires that. IMHO some people will build their own app from source but many more will just pay for the convenience of instant installation and updates. Unfortunately sooner or later somebody will publish the same app for free and if s/he keeps it updated they'll be driven out of business.
My answer to your question is that parrots are birds, they are meant to fly. In your kitten analogy this is like tying their legs, not clipping their claws. If you have to clip the feathers of a parrot to keep it into your home then you shouldn't have a parrot in your home. Leave them where they live with their siblings.
You're probably right about the X buttons. IMHO dialog buttons are large enough to be tapped. I just tried a simulation with Ubuntu's Suspend / Restart / Cancel / Shutdown dialog.
Thinking about it, I think I'd like to convert to touch gestures some of the compiz key combinations I often use, or zooming in/out of pictures and pdf files.
In other news Linux users pay more than Windows and Mac users at humblebundle.com, but that's no shit I guess, so you're right.
Many consumer laptops cost less than a smartphone that comes with 2 or 3 years mandatory contract and they're what most of the laptop market was made of so far: laptops left at home until people come back from work.
Anyway, my business laptop costs twice as much as my smartphone. I'm happy at scrolling windows using the touchpad, where my fingers rest while I'm not typing, but I'd love tapping the X buttons on screen to close windows or to hit dialog buttons: tapping would be much faster than aiming the pointer to the button and clicking. Same if I were using a mouse.
They don't have any particular duty. Read Zuckerberg's IPO letter. He made it clear that shareholders profit was not fb's top priority but I think he gave strategic reasons for that.
Probably it's only me that is wrong, thank you for pointing out my mistake. As for my oversimplifications, I knew I was leaving out something but I wanted to keep it short. Your interpretations are closer to the real licenses.
These are not exactly the terms of GPL and BSD but:
GPL is for people and companies that think "I wrote this software [together with X, Y and Z] and if somebody else makes it better they must share it with all the world, as I did."
BSD is for people and companies that think "I wrote this software [together with X, Y and Z] and I accept the loss that somebody else makes it better and keep it for themselves because I want to have the option of getting somebody's else software, make it better and keep it for me without sharing it back."
I think we can argue forever on the ethic merits of the two approaches (I feel in the GPL camp). Anyway both GPL and BSD make economic sense and we won't be talking about them if they didn't, one or both would be dead long time ago. If a company wants to include some big secret in its code, it must go BSD and occasionally regrets it can't use some GPL code and rant about it. Sometimes the GPL people rant about not being able to include BSD code in their projects.
I know many people that develop Web applications on Macs and deploy on Linux servers. The technologies range from php to ruby on rails, node.js etc. If the servers stay on x86 there might be subtle incompatibilities between development and production environments. Furthermore you won't be able to run a VM with your server on your Mac. I wonder if they'll have to switch to windows or Linux.
Don't know about stock Android but icons and widgets are displayed together in the home screens of Samsung's Touchwiz. I know many people don't like Tw but I really never understood why. It runs just fine on my SG2.
I won't bet against you on that one.
But without the interposition of police or equivalent organizations you might die in any of those disputes, which I bet will increase dramatically. Historically people valued their lives more than their possessions and created police corps even if they had to pay for them. That's why we are living in this kind of world.