BAll sorts of optimizing and cutting down and whatnot has been necessary to get it to fit on phone hardware(on the plus side, the fruits of this process should be applicable to just about any small embedded device, and possibly back to desktop Firefox).
Yes, my first thought was to see if I could install this on my eeepc 701.
My wife has an HTC Magic running android and she loves it. She got it bundled with a two year vodafone contract (renewing her old contract). The funny thing is that if you work out the cost of the contracts the iphone is frequently more expensive with the app store lock in, while the android phones are a slightly cheaper with a bit more freedom.
I've delt with Nokia support for faulty handheld phones from them and I've delt with Apple. Nokia is now blacklisted for me, they will never ever ever see a cent of my money, ever again. I don't care if god personally endorses their next phone.
I have never dealt with apple but agree with you about Nokia. I last bought a nokia 10 years ago and it was a disaster. I am just sorry that Ericsson don't make phones on their own any more. They used to make great phones.
When I browse the Internet on the phone, I find myself wishing that more sites offered mobile versions
Not sure about the blackberry but the web browsers on many mobile devices (such as the iphone) don't identify themselves as mobile devices to avoid being given a mobile version of web pages.
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If he is trying to develop a commercial environment for the kindle, then he is going about it in a strange way.
If they are as alike us as the Kzin then our only hope is that they attack too soon. If they are as alike us as we are to ants then we have nothing to fear.
They are great on public transport where space is limited. I can carry my eeepc to places where my wife would want to know why I am taking a full sized laptop.
Cell phones are actually quite hard to integrate. Batteries are smaller so you have to suspend a lot. You have to come out of suspend fast and not muck up the phone module as you do it. You have to wake up on an incoming call and start ringtones, etc. Openmoko distros frequently break on simple upgrades in weird ways, I tend to upgrade infrequently for that reason.
Maybe enlightenment. It runs well on my openmoko. I have run it on my eeepc as well. What I would like to see is a netbook with a keyboard and touchscreen, but no touchpad. Enlightenment works well with touch screens.
The "way to a better future for the world" is birth control and education.
But spending billions of dollars on birth control won't get you there, unless you plan to use it to put the catholic church out of business. The problems are political. By all means promote education but without political change the education won't be promoting birth control.
I wrote in a different thread that pressure sensitivity could be handy in touch based user interfaces. It could replace the context button on the mouse. Press a link on a web browser lightly to see the alt text. Press it heavily to activate the link. Press it very hard to open the link in a new tab or window. That kind of thing.
To format your hard drive, push this button. To cancel, push that same button, but with exactly 1.2 pounds of force.
I think that is a bad example (or a good joke) but pressure sensitivity in user interfaces has a lot of potential. Maybe you could push a file icon under the surface by giving it a hard push, like moving it to trash. Or maybe a hard press could activate a program while a gentle push could move it across the desktop. A hard push in a file name could initiate a rename.
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BAll sorts of optimizing and cutting down and whatnot has been necessary to get it to fit on phone hardware(on the plus side, the fruits of this process should be applicable to just about any small embedded device, and possibly back to desktop Firefox).
Yes, my first thought was to see if I could install this on my eeepc 701.
My wife has an HTC Magic running android and she loves it. She got it bundled with a two year vodafone contract (renewing her old contract). The funny thing is that if you work out the cost of the contracts the iphone is frequently more expensive with the app store lock in, while the android phones are a slightly cheaper with a bit more freedom.
I've delt with Nokia support for faulty handheld phones from them and I've delt with Apple.
Nokia is now blacklisted for me, they will never ever ever see a cent of my money, ever again. I don't care if god personally endorses their next phone.
I have never dealt with apple but agree with you about Nokia. I last bought a nokia 10 years ago and it was a disaster. I am just sorry that Ericsson don't make phones on their own any more. They used to make great phones.
When I browse the Internet on the phone, I find myself wishing that more sites offered mobile versions
Not sure about the blackberry but the web browsers on many mobile devices (such as the iphone) don't identify themselves as mobile devices to avoid being given a mobile version of web pages.
Yeah but all of those object are not "outside our own solar system". If they were, they would be very hard to detect.
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HOSTING: Please do not re-host the install packages for the Qt platform except temporarily on the occasion that this site is not accessible. Refer people to this site instead. The uninstall packages can be re-hosted without limitations (to assist in any recovery, if it's ever required).
If he is trying to develop a commercial environment for the kindle, then he is going about it in a strange way.
If they are as alike us as the Kzin then our only hope is that they attack too soon. If they are as alike us as we are to ants then we have nothing to fear.
Just enough to make someone elsewhere say Wow!, but no more than that because they won't hear it again.
Central Intelligence Corporation. Also interesting in that they obtained their data essentially by crowdsourcing from amateur spies.
Maybe linux on arm will take off because android is a linux distribution the masses will accept?
Enlightenment has finger dragging support in its scroll and list widgets. Even desktop installs of enlightenment behave that way.
They are great on public transport where space is limited. I can carry my eeepc to places where my wife would want to know why I am taking a full sized laptop.
Cell phones are actually quite hard to integrate. Batteries are smaller so you have to suspend a lot. You have to come out of suspend fast and not muck up the phone module as you do it. You have to wake up on an incoming call and start ringtones, etc. Openmoko distros frequently break on simple upgrades in weird ways, I tend to upgrade infrequently for that reason.
Other distros? Sure would be nice, but the fact that they're ARM means it probably won't be ready just yet.
SHR would probably work with a bit of kernel tweaking.
Maybe enlightenment. It runs well on my openmoko. I have run it on my eeepc as well. What I would like to see is a netbook with a keyboard and touchscreen, but no touchpad. Enlightenment works well with touch screens.
If I can put ubuntu on it I will be interested.
How many Libraries Of Congress will the source code amount to?
One, by definition. This is going to be quite useful.
The human population is only exploding in places where a lot of children die before they can reproduce.
The "way to a better future for the world" is birth control and education.
But spending billions of dollars on birth control won't get you there, unless you plan to use it to put the catholic church out of business. The problems are political. By all means promote education but without political change the education won't be promoting birth control.
I wrote in a different thread that pressure sensitivity could be handy in touch based user interfaces. It could replace the context button on the mouse. Press a link on a web browser lightly to see the alt text. Press it heavily to activate the link. Press it very hard to open the link in a new tab or window. That kind of thing.
Its a bit different because DJB truly believed there were no bugs. That was just advertising.
To format your hard drive, push this button. To cancel, push that same button, but with exactly 1.2 pounds of force.
I think that is a bad example (or a good joke) but pressure sensitivity in user interfaces has a lot of potential. Maybe you could push a file icon under the surface by giving it a hard push, like moving it to trash. Or maybe a hard press could activate a program while a gentle push could move it across the desktop. A hard push in a file name could initiate a rename.
You started with a question and finished with the answer. Pressure sensitivity is handy for lots of things, some of which have not even been invented.
The problem is that over time they are increasingly difficult to get working.
Maybe Saab will come up with an alternative UI for people who wear gloves in cold climates.