Gates vowed revenge for this, and what better way than to take over the world with computers and make the Curiosity rover run off a modified version of Windows Vista.
No reason to shout. Let people have their hobby!
I think AVR and similar inexpensive microprocessors are a great way to get started in "not purely software" hackery. And if Arduino and the likes make it even easier, the better! Just because not everyone was born with a keyboard in their hand, typing into emacs, doesn't mean they don't have the right to explore the realm of programming with whatever editor and platform they like.
Sure, there are a lot of applications these 8-bit MCUs are ill-suited for, but let them figure that out by themselves. It's a learning process, but you in your arrogance shout at AC because he/she wished for something you think is impossible. And maybe it is, but the way you communicate that is somewhat arrogant.
There are plenty of paths to becoming an educated hacker and if it's via a Java-based IDE on Windows that's just as well.
To me it seems more and more like these companies with their huge patent pools are bored and now play a game against each other.
company1: "Hey company2, I hold a patent vaguely describing what you do with product X"
company2: "Hey company1, I have two patents even more vaguely describing what you do with product Y"
company3: "Hey both of you, I hold ten patents that you both infringe on"
company1: "Oh yeah, well guess what, I have twelve other patents, that..." ...Ad infinitum...
It's getting ridiculus...
They already do sub-contract manufacturers for their hardware. The XBox360 is - like Apples products - manufactured by Foxconn (at least according to wikipedia), so that wouldn't be a huge leap.
... and failed spectacularly?
And seeing how the "make the OS, leave making the phone (mostly) to others" business model seems to be working rather well for Google, I don't see, why it shouldn't for Microsoft.
...in fact, as far as I'm concerned it's about time that someone legislated how companies I have to deal with protect my personal information.
This "Written Information Security Plan"-Thing (yes, I read TFA) sounds like an unnecessary and useless PITA though...
Seconded. I have one of those and it runs a svn-OpenWRT very nicely. HOWEVER, if you live in Europe or other places where radar avoidance is mandated, you can't yet use the 5GHz Band (at least not legally), because Ath9k doesn't do DFS. But it's supposed to be high on the maintainers TODO-list
sorry for double posting, but something just occurred to me: the ratio automatic to manual transmissions is probably just about inverse over here compared to the US. So if it's true that putting it in neutral won't work on the automatic gearboxes, putting it in neutral on a manual definitely works. With that in mind the problem is not quite as critical over here.
uh, I don't know about other countries, but in Germany Toyota has a recall going for the same reason.
I think the difference is merely that our media, while insane as well, doesn't freak out quite like the media in the US. "Oh god, we're all going to die because of a problem that occurred 35 times in a vehicle pool of several millions. Oh, and buy American"
well... to be completely honest: the N900 isn't really for the "normal consumer", is it? At least not yet. But I have two friends who own one and they run pretty much everything on there. From Pidgin to Duke Nukem 3D.
And the screen is 800x480, so at least in respect to window dimensions you wouldn't have to tailor that much.
[...]Droid has way more apps available for it.[...]
uh, what? Maemo is a Debian-based Linux. There is no sandbox runtime or anything, it's pretty much a standard Linux. Which means you can install a lot of the applications you could install on any generic Linux box. So I highly doubt that there are more apps for Android than there are for Maemo.
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To stay within the $1000 a x61t might be an option. I got mine half a year ago for roughly 800â, so I think it should be possible to get one in the US for that figure in USD or less. Only thing I'm not sure about, is whether you can find a place where new ones are still sold, they have been phased out. The shop where I got mine doesn't offer it anymore....
the only thing I've tried so far is cellwriter, which works fairly well, but it's symbol based rather than word based like the hand writing recognition software of Vista. So it takes longer and isn't nearly as fun to use.
Even a very efficient gas burning engine pumps fuel out the tail pipe, which is the reason catalytic converters are required on vehicles in the US.
No, catalytic converters mainly reduce Carbon Monoxide and NOx emissions. It is true, that they also reduce the emission of unburnt hydrocarbons, but to a much lesser extend. In fact, if too much unburnt fuel gets to the catalytic converter, it will break very quickly.
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Gates vowed revenge for this, and what better way than to take over the world with computers and make the Curiosity rover run off a modified version of Windows Vista.
Fortunately he failed, it runs on vxWorks
No reason to shout. Let people have their hobby! I think AVR and similar inexpensive microprocessors are a great way to get started in "not purely software" hackery. And if Arduino and the likes make it even easier, the better! Just because not everyone was born with a keyboard in their hand, typing into emacs, doesn't mean they don't have the right to explore the realm of programming with whatever editor and platform they like. Sure, there are a lot of applications these 8-bit MCUs are ill-suited for, but let them figure that out by themselves. It's a learning process, but you in your arrogance shout at AC because he/she wished for something you think is impossible. And maybe it is, but the way you communicate that is somewhat arrogant. There are plenty of paths to becoming an educated hacker and if it's via a Java-based IDE on Windows that's just as well.
In addition to external hard drives, I use DVD-RAMs, which are supposed to survive a few decades.
To me it seems more and more like these companies with their huge patent pools are bored and now play a game against each other. ..."
...Ad infinitum...
company1: "Hey company2, I hold a patent vaguely describing what you do with product X"
company2: "Hey company1, I have two patents even more vaguely describing what you do with product Y"
company3: "Hey both of you, I hold ten patents that you both infringe on"
company1: "Oh yeah, well guess what, I have twelve other patents, that
It's getting ridiculus...
They already do sub-contract manufacturers for their hardware. The XBox360 is - like Apples products - manufactured by Foxconn (at least according to wikipedia), so that wouldn't be a huge leap.
... and failed spectacularly?
And seeing how the "make the OS, leave making the phone (mostly) to others" business model seems to be working rather well for Google, I don't see, why it shouldn't for Microsoft.
It is almost as bad as developing for AVR with AVRStudio.
I'm not following that analogy. I think AVRStudio is just fine as far as IDEs for microcontrollers go.
even though it's called iTex, i isn't useful as a version numbering scheme... \sqrt{2} maybe?
oh great, just what everyone was waiting for.
...in fact, as far as I'm concerned it's about time that someone legislated how companies I have to deal with protect my personal information.
This "Written Information Security Plan"-Thing (yes, I read TFA) sounds like an unnecessary and useless PITA though...
Seconded. I have one of those and it runs a svn-OpenWRT very nicely. HOWEVER, if you live in Europe or other places where radar avoidance is mandated, you can't yet use the 5GHz Band (at least not legally), because Ath9k doesn't do DFS. But it's supposed to be high on the maintainers TODO-list
sorry for double posting, but something just occurred to me: the ratio automatic to manual transmissions is probably just about inverse over here compared to the US. So if it's true that putting it in neutral won't work on the automatic gearboxes, putting it in neutral on a manual definitely works. With that in mind the problem is not quite as critical over here.
uh, I don't know about other countries, but in Germany Toyota has a recall going for the same reason.
I think the difference is merely that our media, while insane as well, doesn't freak out quite like the media in the US. "Oh god, we're all going to die because of a problem that occurred 35 times in a vehicle pool of several millions. Oh, and buy American"
well... to be completely honest: the N900 isn't really for the "normal consumer", is it? At least not yet. But I have two friends who own one and they run pretty much everything on there. From Pidgin to Duke Nukem 3D. And the screen is 800x480, so at least in respect to window dimensions you wouldn't have to tailor that much.
[...]Droid has way more apps available for it.[...]
uh, what? Maemo is a Debian-based Linux. There is no sandbox runtime or anything, it's pretty much a standard Linux. Which means you can install a lot of the applications you could install on any generic Linux box. So I highly doubt that there are more apps for Android than there are for Maemo.
PMS works on Linux too [...]
A cranky Linux? God help us.
To stay within the $1000 a x61t might be an option. I got mine half a year ago for roughly 800â, so I think it should be possible to get one in the US for that figure in USD or less. Only thing I'm not sure about, is whether you can find a place where new ones are still sold, they have been phased out. The shop where I got mine doesn't offer it anymore....
the only thing I've tried so far is cellwriter, which works fairly well, but it's symbol based rather than word based like the hand writing recognition software of Vista. So it takes longer and isn't nearly as fun to use.
Even a very efficient gas burning engine pumps fuel out the tail pipe, which is the reason catalytic converters are required on vehicles in the US.
No, catalytic converters mainly reduce Carbon Monoxide and NOx emissions. It is true, that they also reduce the emission of unburnt hydrocarbons, but to a much lesser extend. In fact, if too much unburnt fuel gets to the catalytic converter, it will break very quickly.
... I mean what do they have to do to get a proper riot?