The other day I was sat at the swimming pool waiting for my eldest to finish her lesson. Her sister was bored out of her mind, so I handed her my phone (Nokia E61) so that she could type out an email to her uncle. An ipad would have been the perfect device for that scenario. And that's just one of the potential reasons that if I had the cash (I don't) I would be getting one of these.
That's all very well and good, but a window manager that's broken covers:
KDE GNOME (I believe - I've never used it in anger myself) Windows and probably MANY more, if not most. So, a significant proportion of the potential user-base.
Yes, some of these can be configured to work the way the developers require for sensible functioning of their app.
Also, this does not address the problem of having to use GIMP with multiple workspaces/desktops, whereby "Send to desktop n" will send the image you're working on, but none of the toolbars or dialogs associated with working on that image. This was my second biggest bugbear of using GIMP (the first, obviously, being the absurdly steep learning curve).
Delenn: By the way, there is something I've been wondering. Why Babylon 5? If the prior four stations were lost or destroyed, why build another? Sinclair: Plain, old human stubbornness, I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If it's destroyed again, we rebuild it again. And again, and again, and again - until it stays. That, as our poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Because the sample of everyone that you know clearly represents the entirety of society.
I am married, happily, with children. I have a healthy circle of Actual Real Life Friends. I also have a healthy circle of online friends, with whom I converse frequently (usually daily), share parenthood stories, exchange photos, and generally have a Gay Old Time(tm). And that's not even including the overlap between those Real Life Friends and the Online friends.
The Internet is many different things to many different people, and what's true for you is not necessarily true for everyone else.
I bought a pair of SkullCandy LowRider headphones once in what turned out to be a very bad impulse purchase. I listen to drum 'n bass music a lot, and like my headphones to have a decent level of bass. I was lead to believe that SkullCandy headphones fit the bill in this regard.
I have rarely been so disappointed with a product in my life.
The Handspring Treo (yes, before they were taken over by Palm) had this. In fact, usability wise, the handspring Treo 600 has not been bettered by any device since.
My family emigrated to India in... er... 93. Suddenly we had to do without telephones, TV, CD players, video games and, really, most of the mod-cons I'd got used to in the UK. Those things existed over there to some degree, but they were mostly prohibitively expensive (plus part of the whole emigration thing was to get away from all that shit). On leaving the UK, I had no idea how I would do without all that stuff.
It took about six months to get over the culture shock, and then... I discovered the following: a large circle of friends. A bicycle. Just dropping round someone's house on a whim. The radio. Books. The beach. Swimming pools. Board games. Conversation. Lots of things that I had, of course, previously had access to, but which had been pushed aside by all that other stuff that seemed so necessary in the UK.
Maybe this handy pie chart will enlighten you.
Hint: Maemo is in the grey slice.
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This is about in line with what I want, but have always felt a bit silly asking for. Put me in the soil and grow a tree there. I'd much rather that than a gravestone.
Yeah, bullshit. HSDPA (or HSPA or whatever it's calling itself these days) - is all lovely and fluffy, but it never stands a chance of getting anywhere near those speeds on any real-world network. And if you're not standing stock still, expect it to be barely faster than GPRS.
5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash
My E71 has a 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash. It's also SHIT. Really, unusably shit. Google "E71 Camera" if you don't want to take my word for it.
I'm really excited about this handset, but lets not just swallow the marketing whole, OK?
... to me anyway, is not just the project itself, but the sheer care taken with the instructions. There's no assumption that you know anything, which for someone like me - who last did electronics at school some 16 years ago - makes this project actually doable.
In fact, you can take the bootable floppy image and burn it straight to abootable CD using this process. I've used this successfully to upgrade the BIOS of a machine with no floppy drive.
Rule three: If it's 3 TB of video of the first year of your kid's life then edit it down to 5 minutes because that's all that anyone will watch (willingly) anyway.
What if your child dies in the same house fire that takes out all your primary storage?
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The other day I was sat at the swimming pool waiting for my eldest to finish her lesson. Her sister was bored out of her mind, so I handed her my phone (Nokia E61) so that she could type out an email to her uncle. An ipad would have been the perfect device for that scenario. And that's just one of the potential reasons that if I had the cash (I don't) I would be getting one of these.
That's all very well and good, but a window manager that's broken covers:
KDE
GNOME (I believe - I've never used it in anger myself)
Windows
and probably MANY more, if not most. So, a significant proportion of the potential user-base.
Yes, some of these can be configured to work the way the developers require for sensible functioning of their app.
Also, this does not address the problem of having to use GIMP with multiple workspaces/desktops, whereby "Send to desktop n" will send the image you're working on, but none of the toolbars or dialogs associated with working on that image. This was my second biggest bugbear of using GIMP (the first, obviously, being the absurdly steep learning curve).
Isn't this exactly the same stuff certain people were saying about Netbooks back then the EeePC was released?
George W should have watched more Babylon 5.
Delenn: By the way, there is something I've been wondering. Why Babylon 5? If the prior four stations were lost or destroyed, why build another?
Sinclair: Plain, old human stubbornness, I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If it's destroyed again, we rebuild it again. And again, and again, and again - until it stays. That, as our poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Not if you pronounce it correctly they don't.
They had a theory!
Was it bunnies?
Because the sample of everyone that you know clearly represents the entirety of society.
I am married, happily, with children. I have a healthy circle of Actual Real Life Friends. I also have a healthy circle of online friends, with whom I converse frequently (usually daily), share parenthood stories, exchange photos, and generally have a Gay Old Time(tm). And that's not even including the overlap between those Real Life Friends and the Online friends.
The Internet is many different things to many different people, and what's true for you is not necessarily true for everyone else.
Yeah, seriously, SkullCandy?!
I bought a pair of SkullCandy LowRider headphones once in what turned out to be a very bad impulse purchase. I listen to drum 'n bass music a lot, and like my headphones to have a decent level of bass. I was lead to believe that SkullCandy headphones fit the bill in this regard.
I have rarely been so disappointed with a product in my life.
No, what would happen is that the levels would be calibrated either arbitrarily, or with whatever standard earbuds come with the device.
Those of us that go out and buy decent earphones will then just have to deal with them being too quiet, and no one important enough will give a shit.
This guy has done one, although it's not a step-by-step, most of the important details of how he did it are missing.
And then imagine, after all that effort, them discovering that the disc they've just decoded contains "Debbie Does Dallas: The Next Generation"
The Handspring Treo (yes, before they were taken over by Palm) had this. In fact, usability wise, the handspring Treo 600 has not been bettered by any device since.
Windows Mobile is like the two Matrix sequels or the Star Wars prequels. We pretend it doesn't exist.
My family emigrated to India in ... er ... 93. Suddenly we had to do without telephones, TV, CD players, video games and, really, most of the mod-cons I'd got used to in the UK. Those things existed over there to some degree, but they were mostly prohibitively expensive (plus part of the whole emigration thing was to get away from all that shit). On leaving the UK, I had no idea how I would do without all that stuff.
It took about six months to get over the culture shock, and then ... I discovered the following: a large circle of friends. A bicycle. Just dropping round someone's house on a whim. The radio. Books. The beach. Swimming pools. Board games. Conversation. Lots of things that I had, of course, previously had access to, but which had been pushed aside by all that other stuff that seemed so necessary in the UK.
I had some awesome teenage years.
Maybe this handy pie chart will enlighten you. Hint: Maemo is in the grey slice.
This is about in line with what I want, but have always felt a bit silly asking for. Put me in the soil and grow a tree there. I'd much rather that than a gravestone.
Yup, know about the "t" thing (which, wtf?). Camera is still shit.
Data transfers over a cellular network 10/2Mbps
Yeah, bullshit. HSDPA (or HSPA or whatever it's calling itself these days) - is all lovely and fluffy, but it never stands a chance of getting anywhere near those speeds on any real-world network. And if you're not standing stock still, expect it to be barely faster than GPRS.
5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash
My E71 has a 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens and LED flash. It's also SHIT. Really, unusably shit. Google "E71 Camera" if you don't want to take my word for it.
I'm really excited about this handset, but lets not just swallow the marketing whole, OK?
Well, it's a very direct way of solving their problem ...
... to me anyway, is not just the project itself, but the sheer care taken with the instructions. There's no assumption that you know anything, which for someone like me - who last did electronics at school some 16 years ago - makes this project actually doable.
He did indeed claim this
Annoyingly I can't seem to find anything but 4.2.3 or lower stable release on any of the mirrors I tried ...
I've had earlier versions of Compiz working (and working well) on a 32MB nvidia laptop adapter.
In fact, you can take the bootable floppy image and burn it straight to abootable CD using this process. I've used this successfully to upgrade the BIOS of a machine with no floppy drive.
Rule three: If it's 3 TB of video of the first year of your kid's life then edit it down to 5 minutes because that's all that anyone will watch (willingly) anyway.
What if your child dies in the same house fire that takes out all your primary storage?