A human cannot comfortably read too wide a column of text. That's the reason why most newspapers use multiple columns, even in portrait orientation, and why webpages tend to restrict text width as well.
And I don't have an use for a phone or tablet without a keyboard that you can't even install a compiler on.
16:10 and 16:9 are not really useful for anything except watching movies. Ok, s/ except.*?\.//, as there's nothing really worth watching there too.
Basically anything you work with: text, code, images, webpages, etc, is better viewed on something that's not a thin strip, no matter if that strip is horizontal or vertical.
this netbook doesn't have an x86 processor, it can't run the real version of Windows
So try this: install Debian (if on Android or Maemo, possibly in a chroot), grab the new multiarchized versions of wine that just hit unstable, install qemu-user. Way too slow for modern bloatware, but you can run 95/98 era software adequately.
That painting is not political at all, it is merely described by its author as depicting something it does not depict. All I see are distorted animal and human shapes in random poses, drawn in a way an average 6 years old kid can do better.
It is like if I took the photograph of poop, and titled it "Windows" because I think Windows is crap. No matter what you say a piece of art shows, it doesn't show anything that isn't actually there. "Guernica" has a bull's head with eyes, horns and ears in wrong places, similarly misdrawn figures, something that resembles a hanging lamp, a feather(?), a hand-held wick-and-oil lamp, and several big triangles. I don't see anything related to, you know, bombing.
If purported art is not distinguishable from a 6 year old's -- or worse, a literal monkey's painting, it is not art. No matter how much taxpayers' money you put into it.
Uhm no. For example, consider this piece of art -- perhaps not the best, but it's actual art for sure, and compare with junk like this, this or this. Yet that junk is what was and is in fashion, and the author of the former was denied the opportunity to polish his skills, having to resort to other deeds instead. So here you go, this is how deadly art can be:p
Siri is the paradigm shift! No keyboard, just dictate long texts and ask for actions, do not do them by hand yourself.
Even starting from IBM ViaVoice 15 years ago, the only use I found for speech recognition is writing nonsense poetry. You get something that resembles the rhythm and possibly rhyme of what you said, but it takes a day of constant repeated tries to get a single intact sentence through.
When you can train the speech recognition engine in question, it becomes possible for it to recognize a limited number of single-word commands semi-reliable, but that's it.
After some tweaking, it's more comfortable an input dev than most laptops. Of course, I tend to sit at a real keyboard (ie, a desktop one) for any long work, but even several hours of coding is not a problem on N900.
not only will you get the RIM keyboard on the iPhone, but dogs and cats will sleep together
A phone without a physical keyboard is unfit for any serious use, so use something real like N900. Mine's currently on my bed, next to a dog and a cat, sleeping together. ARM processors have a heavy stress on sleep modes, so I guess you can count the phone as sleeping as well.
Meh, using mere ALL CAPS is so ASCII. Can't they at least use CJK doublewidth ("fullwidth") characters (U+FF00..U+FF7E) for yelling? Everything but Slashdot can support those.
Please at least use the correct name for the country. It happened 37Ma ago, the junta went rampant only in 1962. We don't use renamed months when talking about Rome by Commodus or Turkmenistan by Niyazov.
Except that thanks to IPv6 you will have one IP per server to memorize (and this means you can put it in DNS). It's only in IPvCrap that you need to manually configure layers upon layers of VPNs just to connect to something in a remote network.
That's not a correct URL. You need to enclose it in brackets for any uses that don't expect a bare IP address. Oh, and Slashcode destroys IPv6 literals in <a>.
Don't worry, Gnome 3 does what it can to stop potential refugees from Windows. And even worse, so many distributions provide Gnome 3 as the default desktop environment.
Astrology is thoroughly debunked, but at least not "fake" science. As something that gives testable results, it is still more relevant than gods or creation, which are not even wrong.
The moment this filter has been first mentioned, schools and counties passed resolutions requiring the use of such filter and making it illegal to turn it off. This included proposals for mandatory proxies that hijack connections to Wikipedia to make sure no one tries to work around the filter.
So I say such a filter even existing is not an option, even if it sounds good on the first glance.
Depends on the country. The last time I had to create a Google Docs account, they required typing in a code sent via SMS to the phone number you provided, without a way to skip it. The message included the words "in your country", so I guess the rules differ in different parts of the world.
Fortunately, I had an old SIM card from DebConf in Bosnia that still worked:)
The whole concept of a "species" is broken. Being able to produce fertile offspring (even if it was a strict 1/0 value), is not fully transitive. For example, there are ring species which form a continuum where individuals at ends can't interbred even though they live in the same geographical area.
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A human cannot comfortably read too wide a column of text. That's the reason why most newspapers use multiple columns, even in portrait orientation, and why webpages tend to restrict text width as well.
And I don't have an use for a phone or tablet without a keyboard that you can't even install a compiler on.
s/tablets/screens/
16:10 and 16:9 are not really useful for anything except watching movies. Ok, s/ except.*?\.//, as there's nothing really worth watching there too.
Basically anything you work with: text, code, images, webpages, etc, is better viewed on something that's not a thin strip, no matter if that strip is horizontal or vertical.
You don't defragment files on flash storage, you defragment free space.
Singling out software patents would be selfish -- let's fix this for everyone.
this netbook doesn't have an x86 processor, it can't run the real version of Windows
So try this: install Debian (if on Android or Maemo, possibly in a chroot), grab the new multiarchized versions of wine that just hit unstable, install qemu-user. Way too slow for modern bloatware, but you can run 95/98 era software adequately.
That painting is not political at all, it is merely described by its author as depicting something it does not depict. All I see are distorted animal and human shapes in random poses, drawn in a way an average 6 years old kid can do better.
It is like if I took the photograph of poop, and titled it "Windows" because I think Windows is crap. No matter what you say a piece of art shows, it doesn't show anything that isn't actually there. "Guernica" has a bull's head with eyes, horns and ears in wrong places, similarly misdrawn figures, something that resembles a hanging lamp, a feather(?), a hand-held wick-and-oil lamp, and several big triangles. I don't see anything related to, you know, bombing.
If purported art is not distinguishable from a 6 year old's -- or worse, a literal monkey's painting, it is not art. No matter how much taxpayers' money you put into it.
you could try to do art though.
Uhm no. For example, consider this piece of art -- perhaps not the best, but it's actual art for sure, and compare with junk like this, this or this. Yet that junk is what was and is in fashion, and the author of the former was denied the opportunity to polish his skills, having to resort to other deeds instead. So here you go, this is how deadly art can be :p
It's hard enough getting sound to work well locally
Nah, just try "apt-get purge pulseaudio".
Siri is the paradigm shift! No keyboard, just dictate long texts and ask for actions, do not do them by hand yourself.
Even starting from IBM ViaVoice 15 years ago, the only use I found for speech recognition is writing nonsense poetry. You get something that resembles the rhythm and possibly rhyme of what you said, but it takes a day of constant repeated tries to get a single intact sentence through.
When you can train the speech recognition engine in question, it becomes possible for it to recognize a limited number of single-word commands semi-reliable, but that's it.
You use your phone as a fancy gadget at most, I use mine as a tiny laptop that's actually portable instead of being luggable.
After some tweaking, it's more comfortable an input dev than most laptops. Of course, I tend to sit at a real keyboard (ie, a desktop one) for any long work, but even several hours of coding is not a problem on N900.
not only will you get the RIM keyboard on the iPhone, but dogs and cats will sleep together
A phone without a physical keyboard is unfit for any serious use, so use something real like N900. Mine's currently on my bed, next to a dog and a cat, sleeping together. ARM processors have a heavy stress on sleep modes, so I guess you can count the phone as sleeping as well.
Meh, using mere ALL CAPS is so ASCII. Can't they at least use CJK doublewidth ("fullwidth") characters (U+FF00..U+FF7E) for yelling? Everything but Slashdot can support those.
Please at least use the correct name for the country. It happened 37Ma ago, the junta went rampant only in 1962. We don't use renamed months when talking about Rome by Commodus or Turkmenistan by Niyazov.
Except that thanks to IPv6 you will have one IP per server to memorize (and this means you can put it in DNS). It's only in IPvCrap that you need to manually configure layers upon layers of VPNs just to connect to something in a remote network.
IPv6 is the final solution to the NAT question.
He needs to go to 2a00:1450:4016:801::1000
That's not a correct URL. You need to enclose it in brackets for any uses that don't expect a bare IP address. Oh, and Slashcode destroys IPv6 literals in <a>.
Not to mention Disney's EPCOT where they have [...] a geodesic representation of the entire Earth, etc.
Is it at least a full scale one, like the village in this article?
There's more than one religion with more than one set of claims about god(s) and/or creation. Many of these claims are testable and falsible.
Could you please name one such testable religion?
Don't worry, Gnome 3 does what it can to stop potential refugees from Windows. And even worse, so many distributions provide Gnome 3 as the default desktop environment.
Astrology is thoroughly debunked, but at least not "fake" science. As something that gives testable results, it is still more relevant than gods or creation, which are not even wrong.
... which can search the storage on an Unix system looking for Windows viruses.
DOS batch files don't have their own TLD, but I'm using a Perl one...
The moment this filter has been first mentioned, schools and counties passed resolutions requiring the use of such filter and making it illegal to turn it off. This included proposals for mandatory proxies that hijack connections to Wikipedia to make sure no one tries to work around the filter.
So I say such a filter even existing is not an option, even if it sounds good on the first glance.
Depends on the country. The last time I had to create a Google Docs account, they required typing in a code sent via SMS to the phone number you provided, without a way to skip it. The message included the words "in your country", so I guess the rules differ in different parts of the world.
Fortunately, I had an old SIM card from DebConf in Bosnia that still worked :)
The whole concept of a "species" is broken. Being able to produce fertile offspring (even if it was a strict 1/0 value), is not fully transitive. For example, there are ring species which form a continuum where individuals at ends can't interbred even though they live in the same geographical area.