I ran the tech shop at the California Museum of Science and Industry in the late 80's/early 90s. We had a new exhibits curator who had just come from a university background who wanted us to change all the exhibits in his hall to Macs because the interface was "Intuitive." That was his big buzzword. So much so he rewrote one of the exhibits as a HyperCard (yes, I'm showing my age) stack as a test program.
Well, this was right after the Rodney King riots. We had no one visiting the Museum but National Guard troops who were using our parking lot as a staging area. Well, one day, several of the techs and I happened to be in the hall with this curator when a soldier came in and sat down in front of his exhibit. The curator made a point of pointing him out to us and saying "See? Now you'll see how intuitive the Mac interface is."
So, the soldier dolled the pointer over the start icon. And waited.
The curator looked puzzled, then leaned over to the soldier and said "You have to click on it to start it."
The soldier looked VERY confused, but dutifully leaned forward to the monitor, and in a loud voice, said "CLICK!"
The moral: One man's intuitive is another's WTF?!?!
(BTW, Once we stopped laughing, "intuitive" became the buzzword around the tech shop. I don't remember that particular curator using it again, however. And Mac fans, no, I'm not bashing Macs. Just saying.)
I have both an Eee and a Nokia N800. I also travel a lot for work, all over the world. Honestly, I've found the N800 to be superior. It's pocketable, instant on, has a sweet set of applications available on the Maemo website, and is something I can have with me in an instant. The Eee is good at night in my hotel room when I want a keyboard and Open Office, but overall if I had to choose between the two, it would be the N800 hands down.
Sorry, but the only antidote to free speech is more free speech. That's what makes Slashdot and Digg so great - it's the users themselves that decide what's an appropriate comment, however it may be expressed, as opposed to self-important editors. I don't read Slashdot for the racist ACs, either, but letting them drool all over themselves lets everyone else see how irrelevant/hateful/fucked up their POV is. Expressing unpopular opinions is the heart of freedom of speech, and I guess Boing Boing's editors haven't grasped the concept yet.
Cory Doctorow, editor of Boing Boing, a blog which censors comments from their readers, not for anything controversial but for being "impolite," is crying because Virgin is interfering with his access to the web.
...that by the time the drive fails beyond that warranty, the vendor is more likely than not not going to have any drives that small in stock. So they'll replace it with whatever's on the shelf, which is usually an order of magnitude larger, at the very least.
So are you saying that if you're running Ubuntu you can't d/l the Gnome packages and boot from either environment" Or vice-versa from Kubuntu? Or similar with PCLinuxOS? Not to mention Xubuntu, Fluxubuntu, etc...? Other than having the packages available on the CD (or DVD... if you really try to be desktop agnostic you're going to be D/Ling one hell of a lot of packages just to burn the disk), once again, what is the advantage to this particular distro?
Give me a fucking break.
I never said anything about censoring their distro. Or anything like it. I said I don't see what the fucking point is. If they put their effort into improving another distro, I might see the point. What I see here is an exercise in masturbation - "Hey, we've taken yet another distro and added our own startup screens to it!!! Cool, huh?!?!"
YMMV.
Sorry, but I don't defend any distro. I use them. For real work. Currently I use Desktop BSD, Mint, Kubuntu, and Puppy - lots of Puppy. So once again, I ask you, what makes this particular distro so special that i should waste my time on it?
Oh, wait, I have. Didn't recognize my video, sound, or wireless out of the box. And it's superior why again?
To whoever modded me troll, care to elaborate on WTF makes this distro so special that you'd waste mod points defending it? I'm quite serious. All I saw was yet another half-baked attempt to start yet another derivative distribution rather than doing anything new or different. It wouldn't even recognize the reviewer's sound card, for Gods' sake.
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YOh, and that 110 MPG Mustang that goes from 0-60 MPH in 3 seconds flat.
Finally my pony!
Thus, a perfect fit for Microsoft.
Now, any guesses on when this will be hacked?
Sweet merciful FSM.
PLEASE tell me this was parody.
...but they'll never take our FRRRREEEEEED-oh, wait, wrong Wallace. Sorry.
I ran the tech shop at the California Museum of Science and Industry in the late 80's/early 90s. We had a new exhibits curator who had just come from a university background who wanted us to change all the exhibits in his hall to Macs because the interface was "Intuitive." That was his big buzzword. So much so he rewrote one of the exhibits as a HyperCard (yes, I'm showing my age) stack as a test program.
Well, this was right after the Rodney King riots. We had no one visiting the Museum but National Guard troops who were using our parking lot as a staging area. Well, one day, several of the techs and I happened to be in the hall with this curator when a soldier came in and sat down in front of his exhibit. The curator made a point of pointing him out to us and saying "See? Now you'll see how intuitive the Mac interface is."
So, the soldier dolled the pointer over the start icon. And waited.
The curator looked puzzled, then leaned over to the soldier and said "You have to click on it to start it."
The soldier looked VERY confused, but dutifully leaned forward to the monitor, and in a loud voice, said "CLICK!"
The moral: One man's intuitive is another's WTF?!?!
(BTW, Once we stopped laughing, "intuitive" became the buzzword around the tech shop. I don't remember that particular curator using it again, however. And Mac fans, no, I'm not bashing Macs. Just saying.)
This means YOU.
OOISO would seem apropos...
OK, I'm assuming you have OS 2008 installed. If not, upgrade immediately.
Go to the Maemo Applications site.
Download/install USB Control.
You now have access to USB host mode. Granted, not as handy as having it native to the OS, but it's available.
The previous poster addressed most of the rest. Granted, the Dev system is bad... but it could be worse. *coughPALMI'MLOOKINGATYOUcough*
I have both an Eee and a Nokia N800. I also travel a lot for work, all over the world. Honestly, I've found the N800 to be superior. It's pocketable, instant on, has a sweet set of applications available on the Maemo website, and is something I can have with me in an instant. The Eee is good at night in my hotel room when I want a keyboard and Open Office, but overall if I had to choose between the two, it would be the N800 hands down.
Sorry, but the only antidote to free speech is more free speech. That's what makes Slashdot and Digg so great - it's the users themselves that decide what's an appropriate comment, however it may be expressed, as opposed to self-important editors. I don't read Slashdot for the racist ACs, either, but letting them drool all over themselves lets everyone else see how irrelevant/hateful/fucked up their POV is. Expressing unpopular opinions is the heart of freedom of speech, and I guess Boing Boing's editors haven't grasped the concept yet.
Cory Doctorow, editor of Boing Boing, a blog which censors comments from their readers, not for anything controversial but for being "impolite," is crying because Virgin is interfering with his access to the web.
Pot, meet kettle.
China?
Perhaps it's a test run.
You Brits invented the language. We Yanks merely perfected it. ;)
...that by the time the drive fails beyond that warranty, the vendor is more likely than not not going to have any drives that small in stock. So they'll replace it with whatever's on the shelf, which is usually an order of magnitude larger, at the very least.
you mean like this?
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=802
Bravo, sir. :)
So are you saying that if you're running Ubuntu you can't d/l the Gnome packages and boot from either environment" Or vice-versa from Kubuntu? Or similar with PCLinuxOS? Not to mention Xubuntu, Fluxubuntu, etc...? Other than having the packages available on the CD (or DVD... if you really try to be desktop agnostic you're going to be D/Ling one hell of a lot of packages just to burn the disk), once again, what is the advantage to this particular distro?
If I hadn't already commented on this thread, I'd mod you up twice.
I agree wholeheartedly. So tell me, in detail, how this particular fork improves the OS quality.
Give me a fucking break. I never said anything about censoring their distro. Or anything like it. I said I don't see what the fucking point is. If they put their effort into improving another distro, I might see the point. What I see here is an exercise in masturbation - "Hey, we've taken yet another distro and added our own startup screens to it!!! Cool, huh?!?!" YMMV.
Nobody likes pretentious electronica. Particularly us drunks.
Sorry, but I don't defend any distro. I use them. For real work. Currently I use Desktop BSD, Mint, Kubuntu, and Puppy - lots of Puppy. So once again, I ask you, what makes this particular distro so special that i should waste my time on it? Oh, wait, I have. Didn't recognize my video, sound, or wireless out of the box. And it's superior why again?
To whoever modded me troll, care to elaborate on WTF makes this distro so special that you'd waste mod points defending it? I'm quite serious. All I saw was yet another half-baked attempt to start yet another derivative distribution rather than doing anything new or different. It wouldn't even recognize the reviewer's sound card, for Gods' sake.
...and that was five minutes of my life I'll never get back.