Straw is an agricultural waste-product which will either be fed to animals, burned or left to decompose (also creating CO2) - it also has a very short carbon cycle unlke burning fossil fuels
Apple will probably never make a $400 netbook or a phone that's cheap enough - with or without operator subsidy - for the basic-level phone deals. That limits their market significantly.
there's an app to do most things on Mac, but its often commercial. There is a better scope of freeware on Windows (although OSS apps often exist on both platforms, Closed-source free apps are more numerous on Windows, and often a free app exists on Windows where only a pay-for app will serve on Mac)
Facebook could REALLY improve their traffic levels if every 24 hours they autochanged statuses to "is sucking a cock" unless the user logged in before the time-out......
If they'd got it out 3 or 4 years ago, even unfinished, it might have been better. Now they have to compete with Android, the forthcoming Chrome OS and a much-more-entrenched Apple.
When I can grab a set of co-ordinates off the web, add it to a contact on my phone, then bluetooth the destination to my car GPS, that will be a brilliant thing
GPS should never replace maps and mapreading skills but it is a damn useful adjunct
The people 'doing' distros now are on the wrong path. I don't care what they think of Chrome-OS and I don't care if they bring their substandard software with them to the party.
thats the beauty of fresh starts. Shake out enough bad ideas and you shake out the people behind them too.
the 'Distro' tradition has led to a plethora of near-identical products doing the same thing - copying windows, badly, on a 40-year out-of-date concept thats overloaded with bad or irrelevant ideas, then adding bloat to the point that nowadays VERY FEW distros actually use less RAM than an equivalent Windows install. even Xubuntu now states a requirement for 384mb, and thats just laughable. XFCE was designed to be lightweight FFS
I've been a Mac user since 10.3 was new and exciting. I've tried X-based apps extensively, thats why i am so fundamentally opposed to the use of X !!
Before I was a mac user I was a linux user. I gave Linux up as a dead loss because of all the legacy crap which is supported with a fundamentalist zealotry by people who really ought to know better.
Most of the crap that users suffer from on Linux (ugly toolkits, outdated desktop models, crappy graphics performance) is down to it being too easy to keep legacy stuff going
Google are doing the right thing, the same thing Apple did to UNIX - fresh start, clean slate, force everyone to re-evaluate and do things right.. then and only after a few years maybe consider adding a rootless X-server (I believe it was OSX 10.3 that finally had X as an install option?)
Otherwise we'll just end up with another crufty X+KDE+Firefox+VLC+OpenOffice same-same BORING CRAPPY UNIMAGINATIVE BLOATED linux distro.
which would be a failure, which is the fate of any distro not backed by an ancient and revered name(SuSE, RH), or a millionaire (shuttleworth)
1) Dump X11 and all its 1950s cruft. its just NOT APPROPRIATE
2) provide porting guidelines for people who wish to make/convert native applications for chrome OS, for those things one doesnt want to do on the web (DVD replay/ripping, video editing, photo editing, online backup clients, scanner/printer utilities
3) provide an app-store for the above in the android model (unregulated, accessed through a software client)
Hello thats coming from the US.. whose government invented the terms 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' and 'axis of weasel' to describe the FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD that became its ally? There was even a short campaign to repatriate the statue of liberty during the first GW Bush presidency
"On the iPhone, free or paid app you are going to get a larger user base.
On Android, you are going to have a smaller number of people using the app"
OK right now there are more iPhones than Android phones out there. I bet in 3 years time Androids will outnumber iPhones by 3 to 1 or better, as there's just the one iPhone and the one carrier for it (usually) but a near infinite possible range of 'Droids..
I lug an Acer netbook around - the files I am most likely to need are on it, and ALL my files are accessible from it as I use online backup (Jungledisk). I keep a USB key to get files between systems in a hurry.
Why copy everything in a world where in the circles people like us inhabit, connectivity is almost-ubiquitous?
I hope you'll forgive me for replying a second time to your post, but there is more I want to say. I am 30 years old, British, and not so well off. The fact that i can see properly to type this message is thanks to our national health service.
Count all the inoculations I've had free of charge against numerous diseases that could have ruined my life, and for all I know I may even owe that life to free, socialised healthcare. I might resent my tax bill but I wouldn't change our system for any reason.
just about all the things you absolutely have to do to keep your nation viable won't be accomplished by markets alone, the sunk costs are too high and the payback period too long.
.. that is more than twice as long as Windows 98SE took to boot on my Athlon 1ghz in 2001. 8 years development and we're still ass-whipped by 90s technology. Way to go....
If I do enough google searches, the amount of emissions required to boil my kettle is reduced as the water is warmer to start with thanks to global warming..
Everything you could ever want is avaliable for free
So i can get an office app? and a MMS sending/receiving app? and a full bluetooth profile app? and an app to allow use of an external keyboard, and video recording? And A2DP? And VoIP? And J2ME for all those useful java apps I have on my own phone?
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Straw is an agricultural waste-product which will either be fed to animals, burned or left to decompose (also creating CO2) - it also has a very short carbon cycle unlke burning fossil fuels
Apple will probably never make a $400 netbook or a phone that's cheap enough - with or without operator subsidy - for the basic-level phone deals. That limits their market significantly.
there's an app to do most things on Mac, but its often commercial. There is a better scope of freeware on Windows (although OSS apps often exist on both platforms, Closed-source free apps are more numerous on Windows, and often a free app exists on Windows where only a pay-for app will serve on Mac)
Facebook could REALLY improve their traffic levels if every 24 hours they autochanged statuses to "is sucking a cock" unless the user logged in before the time-out......
Seriously - what a muffin.... Wonder how his addiction will do, in jail...
yeah
If they'd got it out 3 or 4 years ago, even unfinished, it might have been better. Now they have to compete with Android, the forthcoming Chrome OS and a much-more-entrenched Apple.
When I can grab a set of co-ordinates off the web, add it to a contact on my phone, then bluetooth the destination to my car GPS, that will be a brilliant thing
GPS should never replace maps and mapreading skills but it is a damn useful adjunct
The people 'doing' distros now are on the wrong path. I don't care what they think of Chrome-OS and I don't care if they bring their substandard software with them to the party.
thats the beauty of fresh starts. Shake out enough bad ideas and you shake out the people behind them too.
the 'Distro' tradition has led to a plethora of near-identical products doing the same thing - copying windows, badly, on a 40-year out-of-date concept thats overloaded with bad or irrelevant ideas, then adding bloat to the point that nowadays VERY FEW distros actually use less RAM than an equivalent Windows install. even Xubuntu now states a requirement for 384mb, and thats just laughable. XFCE was designed to be lightweight FFS
You're quite right. Android isn't a distro. android is linux DONE RIGHT
I've been a Mac user since 10.3 was new and exciting. I've tried X-based apps extensively, thats why i am so fundamentally opposed to the use of X !!
Before I was a mac user I was a linux user. I gave Linux up as a dead loss because of all the legacy crap which is supported with a fundamentalist zealotry by people who really ought to know better.
Most of the crap that users suffer from on Linux (ugly toolkits, outdated desktop models, crappy graphics performance) is down to it being too easy to keep legacy stuff going
Google are doing the right thing, the same thing Apple did to UNIX - fresh start, clean slate, force everyone to re-evaluate and do things right.. then and only after a few years maybe consider adding a rootless X-server (I believe it was OSX 10.3 that finally had X as an install option?)
Otherwise we'll just end up with another crufty X+KDE+Firefox+VLC+OpenOffice same-same BORING CRAPPY UNIMAGINATIVE BLOATED linux distro.
which would be a failure, which is the fate of any distro not backed by an ancient and revered name(SuSE, RH), or a millionaire (shuttleworth)
1) Dump X11 and all its 1950s cruft. its just NOT APPROPRIATE
2) provide porting guidelines for people who wish to make/convert native applications for chrome OS, for those things one doesnt want to do on the web (DVD replay/ripping, video editing, photo editing, online backup clients, scanner/printer utilities
3) provide an app-store for the above in the android model (unregulated, accessed through a software client)
Freedom Fight: Fallujah. Defend your city from the Ferenghi (foreigners). All methods acceptable.
Hello thats coming from the US.. whose government invented the terms 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' and 'axis of weasel' to describe the FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD that became its ally? There was even a short campaign to repatriate the statue of liberty during the first GW Bush presidency
Arguably the Afghans and Iraqis show a greater capacity for rudeness than the Dutch of recent centuries. Altho' the Germans might disagree....
Not sure I agree with this:
"On the iPhone, free or paid app you are going to get a larger user base. On Android, you are going to have a smaller number of people using the app"
OK right now there are more iPhones than Android phones out there. I bet in 3 years time Androids will outnumber iPhones by 3 to 1 or better, as there's just the one iPhone and the one carrier for it (usually) but a near infinite possible range of 'Droids..
I lug an Acer netbook around - the files I am most likely to need are on it, and ALL my files are accessible from it as I use online backup (Jungledisk). I keep a USB key to get files between systems in a hurry. Why copy everything in a world where in the circles people like us inhabit, connectivity is almost-ubiquitous?
reciprocating stirling engine charging the iPhone's battery?
I hope you'll forgive me for replying a second time to your post, but there is more I want to say. I am 30 years old, British, and not so well off. The fact that i can see properly to type this message is thanks to our national health service.
Count all the inoculations I've had free of charge against numerous diseases that could have ruined my life, and for all I know I may even owe that life to free, socialised healthcare. I might resent my tax bill but I wouldn't change our system for any reason.
just about all the things you absolutely have to do to keep your nation viable won't be accomplished by markets alone, the sunk costs are too high and the payback period too long.
.. that is more than twice as long as Windows 98SE took to boot on my Athlon 1ghz in 2001. 8 years development and we're still ass-whipped by 90s technology. Way to go....
If I do enough google searches, the amount of emissions required to boil my kettle is reduced as the water is warmer to start with thanks to global warming..
You can do it via MMS however, oh wait sorry the iPhone is stuck in 1996 in that respect and doesnt do MMS does it?
Everything you could ever want is avaliable for free
/irony
So i can get an office app? and a MMS sending/receiving app? and a full bluetooth profile app? and an app to allow use of an external keyboard, and video recording? And A2DP? And VoIP? And J2ME for all those useful java apps I have on my own phone?
Seems I've been misinformed.
Pricewise, the reduced-hassle option of Amazon S3 at 15c/Gigabyte/month is nearly competitive with that