The majority of kids around 12-16 I see these already type at very decent speeds, since they're IM'ing and Facebook'ing all the time. I myself learned typing 110wpm without any touch typing course (except for a small tutorial program I fooled around with on the PC a few times). Touch typing courses are so dated.. I don't think kids need them these days.
..boring. Yawn! Or is it just me?
Sure it looks a little slicker than some of the others, but it's still unimpressive. HD video out? Nice. Now only if it had enough CPU power to play HD video.
My thoughts exactly, how can 80% of the iPhone owners use their phone for turn-by-turn navigation if there are no decent applications for that on the iPhone in the first place? Google Maps is not a turn-by-turn navigation solution.
I can use my Symbian phone using Nokia Maps (+navigation lisence), but a small screen phone in the cup holder of my car, running off it's own limited battery is no match for a dedicated navigation system:) I'd rather use my â 200 TomTom for that.. you can get them for even less than that nowadays.
I second that. I've managed a 150 computer network with OfficeScan and it worked terrific. Also it offers a lot of insight in what users are liabilities and whom are not:)
Well the hip introduction video looks cool, but I'm afraid this will be more of a smartphone (sans the phone) than a laptop. But I guess that's OK if they can sell it below the price of the current eee's.
I think I'd rather wait for Moblin before going the Android route.
The fact that the iPhone 3G doesn't do video-calls really surprised me, too. I mean, the Nokia 6680 I purchased in 2005 already supported it. Of course I had to wait until 2008 before I could even video-call anyone, so I guess Apple is not really that late:)
Well the deployment of Rails is getting easier every day. It now integrates nicely in your LAMP stack thanks to Fusion Passenger. Or if you want more scalability, spead and general coolness you can use JRuby (with Warbler) to deploy a Rails application on a J2EE application server of your choice (e.g. Glassfish, Tomcat, Websphere). This also allows you to leverage technologies such as JMS or JDBC connection pooling from your Rails application.
Deploying Rails application has been a mess since it's inception, but with Passenger and JRuby we have two very mature options.
Same here.. my grandfather of 83 who never touched a computer in his entire life is e-mailing and ordering groceries happily with his Ubuntu Linux computer.
I really think that a nagging Windows install would have taken a lot of the fun out of computing for him. Also, it's great that other relatives don't mess around with his system ('Oh you really need this piece of software!') so everything still works as good as it did 2 years ago.
A Mac would have done fine too by the way, but that was a bit too expensive when we started, since it was just an experiment.
This couldn't come at a better time. I was recently wondering if FreeBSD was a good platform for deploying our first Java EE application (since we use fbsd for everything else) or that Linux or Solaris might be better.
It's good to see that FreeBSD isn't all that bad, but I know now that switching to (Open)Solaris might be worth it. But as far as I see, OpenSolaris is mainly geared towards desktop use, isn't it?
It's great that Microsoft wants to trim down their OS, but Mail and Photo applications seem like pretty basic apps to me. I'm glad Mac OS X comes with (the excellent) Mail.app and iPhoto. Then again, they're both a lot nicer than the Windows standard applications. So maybe it's a good decision by Microsoft to trim these after all, so people can download Thunderbird and Picasa or whatever.
Why do I care anyway, I haven't used Windows in 4 years:)
Same here.. I have no problem SMSing my brother on his chinese cellphone from my Dutch Orange subscription. I know he has no problem receiving messages from my parents spanish Mobistar phones either.
Unfortunately I don't know what telco he's with, but I do believe it's a prepaid account as he's ony there temporarily.
I have a Samsung i600 (similar to the US 'Blackjack'), which is a Windows Mobile Smartphone with a full QWERTY thumbboard. I use this with zaTelnet, a great client with public key support etc. With the smallest font you can make a 80x25 terminal on the QVGA screen.
I guess a lot has changed since 2005. The i600 is just as portable as any other candybar phone, too.
My guess is this guy still has the awful Unsanity Application Enhancer installed. This piece of s**tware has proven itself to be a cause of so many troubles over the year (including the 'blue screen' problem that oaccure after Leopard upgrades).. I can't understand why people still use it.
It's not that Apple is infallible, but comparing Leopard to Vista is a bit much.
When typing a text message, you can also just enter the first letters of your contact name in the To: field and press the center key, it will then autocomplete the name (or present you with a list of matches). My 6681 is the fastest phone for texting I've ever had. I love the Series 60 platform, it totally fits me. However, I wouldn't recommend it to my grandfather or even my girlfriend;)
There are lots (quasi-)private trackers, which not only have as many torrents listed as the sites mentioned in the article, but also provide a lot more quality (in download speed) because of the involved ratio system (demon**** is a good example of this). And there are some very hot 0-day trackers which, even though they only track torrents for 1000 hours, are very popular among many people (such as the file* sites).
Bittorrent-users aren't considered 1337 in general, but they can be 1337er than the ones who use the sites in this article:)
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The majority of kids around 12-16 I see these already type at very decent speeds, since they're IM'ing and Facebook'ing all the time. I myself learned typing 110wpm without any touch typing course (except for a small tutorial program I fooled around with on the PC a few times). Touch typing courses are so dated.. I don't think kids need them these days.
..boring. Yawn! Or is it just me? Sure it looks a little slicker than some of the others, but it's still unimpressive. HD video out? Nice. Now only if it had enough CPU power to play HD video.
My thoughts exactly, how can 80% of the iPhone owners use their phone for turn-by-turn navigation if there are no decent applications for that on the iPhone in the first place? Google Maps is not a turn-by-turn navigation solution. :) I'd rather use my â 200 TomTom for that.. you can get them for even less than that nowadays.
I can use my Symbian phone using Nokia Maps (+navigation lisence), but a small screen phone in the cup holder of my car, running off it's own limited battery is no match for a dedicated navigation system
I second that. I've managed a 150 computer network with OfficeScan and it worked terrific. Also it offers a lot of insight in what users are liabilities and whom are not :)
Actually, the latest FreeBSD production releases also support ZFS pretty well. The most important parts of it, at least. So Solaris is not by itself.
Well the hip introduction video looks cool, but I'm afraid this will be more of a smartphone (sans the phone) than a laptop. But I guess that's OK if they can sell it below the price of the current eee's.
I think I'd rather wait for Moblin before going the Android route.
The fact that the iPhone 3G doesn't do video-calls really surprised me, too. I mean, the Nokia 6680 I purchased in 2005 already supported it. Of course I had to wait until 2008 before I could even video-call anyone, so I guess Apple is not really that late :)
My thoughts exactly.. so far for Open Source's quick reaction to bugs. The fix for this very serious issue was already known in july 2007.
In Dutch, SOA is the abbreviation for an STD. That doesn't help in taking this book seriously :)
Well the deployment of Rails is getting easier every day. It now integrates nicely in your LAMP stack thanks to Fusion Passenger.
Or if you want more scalability, spead and general coolness you can use JRuby (with Warbler) to deploy a Rails application on a J2EE application server of your choice (e.g. Glassfish, Tomcat, Websphere). This also allows you to leverage technologies such as JMS or JDBC connection pooling from your Rails application.
Deploying Rails application has been a mess since it's inception, but with Passenger and JRuby we have two very mature options.
Same here.. my grandfather of 83 who never touched a computer in his entire life is e-mailing and ordering groceries happily with his Ubuntu Linux computer.
I really think that a nagging Windows install would have taken a lot of the fun out of computing for him. Also, it's great that other relatives don't mess around with his system ('Oh you really need this piece of software!') so everything still works as good as it did 2 years ago.
A Mac would have done fine too by the way, but that was a bit too expensive when we started, since it was just an experiment.
This couldn't come at a better time. I was recently wondering if FreeBSD was a good platform for deploying our first Java EE application (since we use fbsd for everything else) or that Linux or Solaris might be better. It's good to see that FreeBSD isn't all that bad, but I know now that switching to (Open)Solaris might be worth it. But as far as I see, OpenSolaris is mainly geared towards desktop use, isn't it?
It's great that Microsoft wants to trim down their OS, but Mail and Photo applications seem like pretty basic apps to me. I'm glad Mac OS X comes with (the excellent) Mail.app and iPhoto. Then again, they're both a lot nicer than the Windows standard applications. So maybe it's a good decision by Microsoft to trim these after all, so people can download Thunderbird and Picasa or whatever. Why do I care anyway, I haven't used Windows in 4 years :)
Same here.. I have no problem SMSing my brother on his chinese cellphone from my Dutch Orange subscription. I know he has no problem receiving messages from my parents spanish Mobistar phones either. Unfortunately I don't know what telco he's with, but I do believe it's a prepaid account as he's ony there temporarily.
I guess a lot has changed since 2005. The i600 is just as portable as any other candybar phone, too.
My guess is this guy still has the awful Unsanity Application Enhancer installed. This piece of s**tware has proven itself to be a cause of so many troubles over the year (including the 'blue screen' problem that oaccure after Leopard upgrades).. I can't understand why people still use it.
It's not that Apple is infallible, but comparing Leopard to Vista is a bit much.
Ahh yes, lunar wind. Another glorious American discovery!
Isn't there supposed to be an American flag on this side of the moon?
I want the domeinname eur.asia. Not only will it give me teh leet status on IRC, but it will also make me seem lettered and well-read.
When typing a text message, you can also just enter the first letters of your contact name in the To: field and press the center key, it will then autocomplete the name (or present you with a list of matches). My 6681 is the fastest phone for texting I've ever had. I love the Series 60 platform, it totally fits me. However, I wouldn't recommend it to my grandfather or even my girlfriend ;)
There are lots (quasi-)private trackers, which not only have as many torrents listed as the sites mentioned in the article, but also provide a lot more quality (in download speed) because of the involved ratio system (demon**** is a good example of this). And there are some very hot 0-day trackers which, even though they only track torrents for 1000 hours, are very popular among many people (such as the file* sites).
:)
Bittorrent-users aren't considered 1337 in general, but they can be 1337er than the ones who use the sites in this article
What is this Internet you speak of?